BEEFhives Recipe

BEEFhives Recipe

  • 2 pounds ground beef (85 percent lean)
  • 2 slices bread, crumbled
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 1 cup dairy sour cream
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
  • 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano leaves, crushed
  • 1/8 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped celery leaves
  • 1/3 cup chopped parsley
  • 1 small onion with top chopped
  • 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, cut into cubes
  • 1 (16 ounce) can apricot halves
  • 1/2 cup slivered almonds
  1. Soak bread in milk in mixing bowl; stir in sour cream. Sprinkle salt, seasoned salt, oregano and pepper over ground beef; mix lightly but thoroughly.
  2. Add seasoned ground beef, celery leaves, parsley and onion to sour cream mixture and mix well. Using a 1/4 cup measure, divide beef mixture into 12 mounds.
  3. Place six mounds lightly on a greased rack of the broiler pan leaving space between each mound. Enclose each cube of cream cheese between 2 apricot halves. Place filled apricots over the beef mounds. Top each with a second beef mound and shape into a dome. Stud the 6 domes with slivered almonds in spiral pattern.
  4. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.
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