This recipe was per the request of my husband while he was on another keto diet kick. He requested meatballs with blue cheese and bacon, so I got my creative juices flowing and devised this fun skewered version! Blue cheese meatballs alternated on skewers with baby bella portobello mushrooms all wrapped in bacon. My mouth is watering just thinking about these.
Bacon really does make everything better, it just adds so much flavor. For this recipe, rather than cooking the bacon to add to the meatballs I thought I could eliminate some prep time and still add great flavor by wrapping the meatballs in the bacon instead. Also, to add some keto friendly veggies I chose baby bella portobellos to add some freshness that could still stand up to the beef and bacon. Assembling it all on a skewer made it all the more fun, not only for the look, but also to eat.
Bacon Wrapped Blue Cheese Meatballs with Portobello Mushrooms
Ingredients
- 1 Pound ground beef
- 1 TBSP Adobo or sub garlic & onion powder
- ¼ Cup almond flour
- 1 Egg
- ½ Cup blue cheese
- ½ tsp ground black pepper
- 8 Slices bacon
- 2 10 oz Containers baby bella portobello mushrooms
- 8 Wooden Skewers
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a large bowl combine beef, adobo, almond flour, egg, blue cheese and pepper
- Mix together until well combined
- Using a cookie scoop or spoon portion out the mixture and roll into balls. Place on a plate. This should make roughly 20 to 22 meatballs
- Remove stems from mushrooms and rinse to remove and dirt, set aside
- To assemble alternate mushrooms and meatballs on skewers starting and ending with a mushroom. This should give you 4 mushroom caps and 3 meatballs on each skewer.
- Repeat until all meatballs are on a skewer
- Lightly grease an oven safe dish that has space for all of the skewers. I used a cast iron grill pan, but a glass baking dish or cookie sheet with sides will work as well. The dish should have sides though so any grease from the meat doesn’t drip into the oven.
- Once skewers have all been assembled wrap one piece of bacon around the skewer and place onto your oven safe dish. The bacon should stick to the meatballs and mushrooms without needing a toothpick to secure.
- Bake in 350 degree oven for 35 to 40 minutes or until well done
