Easy Cocktail Meatballs
Created by Puppitypup on October 20, 2014
- Servings: 12
- Prep Time: 5m
- Cook Time: 3h
- Recipe #14856
Ingredients
- 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
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.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (126.5 g)
- Calories 184.6
- Total Fat - 4.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.8 g
- Cholesterol - 10.6 mg
- Sodium - 588.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 30.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2 g
- Sugars - 19 g
- Protein - 5.5 g
- Calcium - 124.7 mg
- Iron - 0.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 4.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg