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Easy Cocktail Meatballs

Here's how you make Easy Cocktail Meatballs
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  • Servings: 12
  • Prep: 5m
  • Cook: 3h
    • The following recipe serves 12 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1 bag (32 ounce) frozen meatballs (not Italian)
  • SAUCE
  • 1 cup cranberry sauce (jellied)
  • 1 cup barbecue sauce
  • 1/4 green pepper, finely diced (optional)
  • 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 2 tablespoons dried onion flakes
  • Seasoning salt, to taste
  • Fresh ground pepper, to taste
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: There are a couple ways to do this.

  • Step 2: Thawed Meatballs:

  • Step 3: Preheat crock pot on high. Combine sauce ingredients until heated through. Add meatballs and stir. Transfer to preheated crock pot and reduce heat to low for 1-2 hours.

  • Step 4: Frozen Meatballs:

  • Step 5: Cook sauce ingredients in large pot on stove-top over medium-high heat. Stir in frozen meatballs, then transfer to crock pot. Reduce heat and cook 4-5 hours, stirring every hour.

  • Step 6: MakeAhead: Follow either method, but only cook until meatballs are heated through. Then cool and refrigerate overnight. Reheat next day in crockpot.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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