Cheesy Spinach Balls

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A person made spinach balls for a potluck dinner, and they were a large hit. Her look was akin to galore that tin beryllium recovered connected the Internet, but this bumped-up mentation mightiness bushed them all.

The balls tin beryllium made with oregon without sausage, oregon with lump crabmeat, which truly kicks up the elegance factor.

The balls tin beryllium made a fewer weeks successful beforehand and frozen. (Freeze them flat, past stack them betwixt layers of parchment paper.) They besides tin beryllium assembled 1 time successful beforehand oregon adjacent baked and reheated (in a mean oven until warmed through, astir 5 minutes, oregon successful a microwave oven connected HIGH for 10 to 20 seconds).

Adapted by Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn from a look by Linda Mayo Perez.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 52 pieces

Two 10-ounce packages frozen chopped spinach, defrosted and squeezed dry
2 cups cubed herbed stuffing mix, preferably Pepperidge Farm
1/2 mean yellowish onion, finely chopped (1/2 cup)
4 ample eggs, lightly beaten
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted
1/2 cupful regular oregon low-fat mayonnaise (do not usage nonfat)
1/2 cupful freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
1/4 cupful pecorino cheese
1/2 spoon ail powder
1/2 spoon salt
1/2 spoon cayenne capsicum oregon chipotle powder
8 ounces mild Italian sausage (pork oregon turkey), cooked and drained, past crumbled (may substitute 8 ounces lump crabmeat, picked implicit to region immoderate cartilage oregon shells); optional

Nutritional Facts

Per portion (using low-fat mayonnaise)

Calories
35
Fat
3 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
2 g
Sodium
85 mg
Cholesterol
20 mg
Protein
2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted by Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn from a look by Linda Mayo Perez.

Tested by David Hagedorn.

Published December 14, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026