Smoked Shrimp In Italian Meatballs

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 lb ground beef

  (extra lean is best)
• 1 egg yolk
• ¼ cup Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
• 1 tablespoon fresh basil

  (chopped)
• ½ tablespoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon oregano

  (dried, flakes)
• ½ teaspoon each, salt & pepper
• 12 shrimp

  (raw, large to extra large)

Instructions

• 1 In a medium mixing bowl, combine the lean ground beef, egg yolk, Italian
  seasoned breadcrumbs, fresh basil, garlic powder, oregano, salt, and pepper. Mix
  the ingredients enough so that they are distributed evenly throughout the ground
  beef and divide into 12 portions.
• 2 Flatten the ground beef mixture out into a disc shape and wrap around the raw,
  peeled shrimp until only about ½ inch + of the shrimp tail is showing. Overall
  the meatballs will be roughly 1-1 ½ inch in size. Set the shrimp in meatballs
  onto your smoker rack (I lined mine with aluminum foil to prevent sticking and
  falling apart later) and place in the smoker at 250 degrees F (121 degrees C).
  Smoke for 35-40 minutes, or until no longer pink inside.
  

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