Healthy Breaded Mozzarella Cheese Sticks

Creating this recipe took some trial and error. You may want to do a test run before you really need them.

This recipe adds heart healthy fiber and removes tons of calories and fat!


Ingredients:

• 4 mozzarella cheese sticks (as in string cheese) or cut sticks out of a block of mozzarella cheese. 
• You may be able to make more than just 4 sticks with the same amount of ingredients. 
• about 1/4 cup Fiber One Original cereal crumbs, a mix of fine and chunky crumbs will give a texture more similar to traditional cheese sticks (use 1/2 cup cereal and a blender to make crumbs)
• 1 egg white
• 1 tablespoon milk
• Cooking spray
• Italian seasoning and garlic powder to taste
• Marinara sauce for dipping
• 2 chilled plates and 1-2 chilled cookie sheets

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and use cooking spray to oil cookie sheet. Put 2 medium to large plates in the freezer. Put cookie sheets in the freezer or fridge. 
2. Mix seasoning and garlic powder with bread crumbs
3. Spread crumbs out on cookie sheet, lightly spray crumbs with cooking spray, and bake for 10-15 minutes. Stir crumbs halfway through. Meanwhile mix milk and egg white together. Unwrap string cheese from packages and set aside.
4. Once crumbs look toasted, remove from oven and let cool on a cooled plate for about 10 minutes.
5. Once crumbs are cool to touch, dunk cheese stick in egg mixture then coat cheese stick with crumbs and repeat for all cheese sticks. Place sticks on chilled cookie sheet. Bake cheese sticks for 3-5 minutes. (keep an eye on them to make sure they don't melt). 
6. Remove from cookie sheet and let them cool for about 5 minutes on chilled plate.
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 (with second chilled cookie sheet) at least 1 more time. 

Serve with warm marinara sauce. Let me know how it goes!