Slow-Cooker Grape Jelly Meatballs

Submitted by Pamela

• Ready In: 55mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 100 small meatballs

ingredients

• 2 lbs lean beef, ground
• 1⁄4 cup potato, peeled, grated
• 1 egg
• 1 small onion, grated
• breadcrumbs
• salt and black pepper, freshly ground

• Sauce:

• 1 (13 ounce) bottle Heinz Chili Sauce
• 1 (5 ounce) jar grape jelly
• 1 dash Worcestershire sauce

directions

1. Sauce: 13 ounce bottle Heinz Chili Sauce 5 ounce jar grape jelly dash Worcestershire sauce Combine first 4 ingredients in large bowl and mix well.
2. Add enough breadcrumbs to make meatballs the proper consistency; if the mixture becomes too dry and crumbly, add a little milk and continue. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Form into small meatballs.
4. Brown meatballs, a few at a time, in a large skillet over medium- high heat. If meat is very lean, you may need to add a bit of oil to your skillet. Blend sauce ingredients and pour over meatballs.
5. Cover and simmer about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally or, transfer meatballs to a crock pot, and cook on low for several hours until done. Serve warm.

Reviews

[Dee Grisham]

This sauce works great with little smokies and is quick and easy to make the morning of a "feed" day at work. Just put it all in a crock pot and plug it in. By lunch, it's a big hit.

 

[Jill Bean Lucier]

LOTS of compliments when I made this sauce for a party and used it with cocktail sausages. I also added dried minced onion to the sauce.

 

[Dennis McCauley]

As a professional chef, when I read recipes I usually can visualize the taste from the list of ingredients. This one, however, had me stumped. The recipe is dead easy and the results were surprisingly good. I would recommend this for a buffet at a party(with toothpicks for that 60's kitch feel). One adaptation I suggest is to increase the worcestershire and add cayenne or tabasco to taste, simmer the sauce without the meatballs, and barbecue some ribs using this as the barbecue sauce. Yum! Pass the cole slaw, please.

 

[glynn117]

I was kind of skeptical when I saw this recipe, but I needed an easy recipe for a party of 30+ people. I bought a 6 lb. bag of pre-made meatballs from Costco, cooked the sauce a little over the stove top and poured it over the meatballs in my crockpot. Cooked on low for 6 hours and it was perfect! Got lots of compliments from my guests! Thank you so much for such a tasty and simple recipe!

 

[Shannon Sweet]

I love this for parties, but also have come to serve it as a dinner over rice. However, I put my meatballs into the crockpot raw and let them cook in the sauce for several hours, it give the meatballs a much better taste (beware of this method if you are not using a very lean meat or you will have to much excess grease). I nix the worcestershire sauce and add a dash of lemon juice and hot sauce...PERFECT!