Slow Cooker Italian Style Meatballs. If desired, serve with minced parsley. Be sure to pin this meatball recipe and add it to your list of party foods on game day. Italian Style Slow Cooker Meatballs Are you ready for some foooooootball?? Slow Cooker Italian Style Meatballs

You can have Slow Cooker Italian Style Meatballs using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Slow Cooker Italian Style Meatballs
  1. Prepare of Meatballs :.
  2. It’s of lean ground beef (or lean ground turkey).
  3. Prepare of breadcrumbs.
  4. Prepare of large egg.
  5. It’s of milk.
  6. It’s of each dried basil, dried parsley.
  7. It’s of each garlic powder, onion powder, pepper.
  8. It’s of salt.
  9. You need of Sauce :.
  10. You need of crushed tomatoes.
  11. It’s of diced tomatoes, undrained.
  12. Prepare of tomato paste.
  13. You need of dried basil.
  14. Prepare of each dried parsley, granulated sugar.
  15. Prepare of each dried oregano, Italian seasoning, pepper, salt.
  16. Prepare of yellow onion, diced.
  17. Prepare of garlic, minced.

Pour chopped tomatoes, tomato puree, stock, garlic and herbs into a slow cooker set to Lo. Make the homemade meatballs by mixing ground beef and pork (beef and pork mince) with sauteed onions and garlic, finely chopped sun-dried tomatoes, herbs, Parmesan cheese, breadcrumbs and beaten egg. Mix until just combined then form meatballs. In a slow cooker, mix the spaghetti sauce, crushed tomatoes, and tomato puree.

Slow Cooker Italian Style Meatballs step by step

  1. Grease your slow cooker. Place in all of the sauce ingredients and stir together..

  2. In a large bowl, place all of the meatball ingredients. Use your hands to thoroughly combine it all together..

  3. Roll out the meatballs, using about 1 tbsp of meat per ball. Place the meatballs into the sauce in the slow cooker..

  4. Make sure to spoon the sauce over the top of the meatballs. Then place the lid on and cook on low heat for 5-7 hours, until the meatballs are no longer pink in the center..

  5. Serve however you'd like and refrigerate any leftovers..

Place the meatballs into the sauce mixture. The combination of grape jelly and BBQ sauce makes the perfect base for the meatballs. Here's a wonderful appetizer for the big game or any family function. Very easy to prepare and also very tasty. I've doubled and even tripled the recipe for large to huge groups.