Fried Pasta Shell Bites Stuffed With Meatballs & Cheese Balls – Hearty Snack On A Stickbr Bookmark Article: br Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for a first-hand look at all our best recipes and cooking hacks! You can find these recipes and the full instructions on our website or below ↓↓.br br ***********************************************************************br br Doesn't fried food on a stick just take you right back to your childhood and warm summer days at the state fair? You may have tried a lot of different carnival food over the years, but we doubt you've ever had something this good before! Deep-fried jumbo pasta shells stuffed with hearty meatballs or creamy cheese balls – life just doesn't get better than this.br br You'll Need:br br - 4½ oz jumbo pasta shellsbr br For the meat filling:br br - ½ day-old bread rollbr - 6 oz ground beefbr - 1 eggbr - 1 garlic clove, mincedbr - 1 tsp parsleybr - 2 tbsp parmesanbr - pepperbr - saltbr - 2 mozzarella pearlsbr br For the cheese filling:br br - 4½ oz feta cheesebr - 1 oz olives, slicedbr - 1 oz sun-dried tomatoesbr - 1½ tbsp cream cheesebr - ½ tsp rosemarybr - pepperbr br For the breading:br br - 2 oz bread crumbsbr - ½ day-old bread rollbr - 2 oz flourbr - 3 eggsbr br Extra:br br - lollipop sticksbr - oil for fryingbr br Here's How:br br 1. Cook the pasta shells about 3 minutes less than the instructions call for and set aside for now. Take a day-old bread roll and cut it in half, width-wise. Soak one half in a bowl of water, and grate the other half over a separate bowl which you will set aside for later.br br 2. Squeeze the water out of the wet bread roll well and add it to the ground beef. Add the egg, chopped garlic, parsley, and parmesan. Season everything with salt and pepper and mix the meat mixture together with your hands.br br 3. For the second filling, crumble the feta cheese into a bowl and add the finely chopped olives, sun-dried tomatoes, cream cheese, and chopped rosemary. Season the mixture with a little pepper and mix everything well.br br 4. Cut the two mozzarella pearls in half and stick one in the middle of each meatball you will form with your hands. Place each meatball inside two pasta shells.br br 5. Form small cheese balls from the cheese filling and place each cheese ball inside two pasta shells.br br 6. Add the crumbs from the day-old bread roll that you set aside in Step #1 to the bread crumbs. Dredge the stuffed pasta shells in flour, egg, and bread crumbs, stick lollipop or cake pop sticks in the breaded pasta bites, and fry in hot oil.