Garlic, Cheese & Sausage Bites

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 6 ounces spicy italian turkey sausage or 6 ounces spicy italian lamb sausage
• 1 head garlic
• 1 1/2 teaspoons chopped garlic
• 1 pinch garlic powder
• 1 pinch garlic salt
• 1 pinch black pepper
• 1 pinch red chili pepper flakes
• splash olive oil
• 24 wonton wrappers
• nonstick cooking spray

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 375. cut the top off the head of garlic and place it on a baking sheet covered with foil and pour olive oil over it. bake for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown and cloves are soft & mushy. (this can also be done in the toaster oven :o)
• 2 cut the raw sausage open and throw away the sausage casing, brown the sausage in a skillet until completely cooked.
• 3 chop 1-2 cloves raw garlic, about 1 1/2 teaspoons.
• 4 in a large bowl combine cooked sausage, cream cheese, roasted garlic, raw garlic a pinch of red chili flakes, and seasoning- i just shook in a bit of the garlic powder, garlic salt, & pepper (probably around 1/4 tsp each, maybe a bit more) and mix with a hand held electric mixer until all ingredients are well combined.
• 5 spray a mini-muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray. add a won-ton wrapper one cup of the muffin tray and fill with about 1 to 1 1/2 tbsp of the garlic cheese mix. pinch the won ton wrapper together to seal, then spray with non-stick cooking spray, repeat until the whole tin is full of lil' garlic bites!
• 6 bake at 375 for about 30 minutes or until they are golden brown and gorgeous!
• 7 the tops will open up a bit- but i thought they were reminiscent of little garlic cloves and was happy with how they came out.