Crunchy Mozzarella

Ingredients

• 1 cup Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
• 8 ounces mozzarella cheese, low-moisture part-skim, cut into 12 pieces
• olive oil flavored cooking spray, 12 short sprays

Directions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

2. 2

   Spray a nonstick mini muffin tin with olive oil cooking spray. Press half of the bread crumb mixture evenly into each of the mini muffin cups; reserve the other half.

3. 3

   Add 1 mozzarella piece to each muffin cup and cover with remaining bread crumb mixture. Make sure that the cheese is completely buried in the bread crumb mixture.

4. 4

   Cook for 10 minutes or until top layer of bread crumbs is crunchy and cheese is soft. R.

5. 5

   emove tin from oven and allow to cool in tin for 5 minutes. Remove from tin with a teaspoon. Serve warm.