I had sausage balls for lunch, y’all. It’s super easy and crazy yummy. This can be that thing you bring to parties and potlucks that makes people roll their eyes and grab at the air while they chew. (Note: This could also mean they’re choking.)
Oven at 375F.
1lb breakfast sausage, 8oz shredded cheddar, squish it all together in a big mixing bowl.
Add a cup of self-rising flour and squish that in until your shoulder says it will hate you tomorrow. There will be some cheese and flour in the bottom of the bowl that is feeling left out. Don’t feel sorry for it – add a splash of water to your dough and dab that extra bidness up. Wash yo hands.
Pull out about 18 inches of plastic wrap and lay it on the counter. Curse the stupid internet myth that said those tabs on the end of the box help the plastic roll stay inside. Using a big spoon, transfer dough to middle of plastic wrap in an oblong shape. Wrap dough using long sides of plastic, so wrap looks like a clear snake that ate a naked armadillo. Now use your play-doh rolling skills and roll out a rope as big around as a quarter, all while it’s in the wrap. You may have to adjust your wrap occasionally. Nobody likes a bunchy wrap.
Now that you have a cool rope, spray an oven-safe pan lightly with vegetable oil. Your pan will need a lip because the sausage is gonna grease out a little and you don’t want that rolling off the pan onto your oven’s heating element. Ask my son.
Now take your rope and pinch off some balls out of the end of the wrap and onto the pan. They really don’t have to be far apart because they are going to bake to pretty much the same size.
Bake em for 10-12 minutes. If you aren’t sure if they’re done, grab a big one off and check inside for pink. You don’t want pink – you want brown.
Brown? Sweet, take em out, take a picture, post it on the Internet. Eat it up.
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