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Crock Pot Meatball Appetizer

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 Crock Pot Meatball Appetizer

Disclosure: This weeks Progressive Dinners sponsor is Nielsen-Massey Fine Vanillas and Flavorings

Welcome to week 2 of 7 in our Progressive Dinner Blog Hop. Last week I sent out an Progressive Dinner invitation. If you didn’t get a chance to see it you can check it out in my Progressive Dinner Invitation post where you can see the beautiful full color magazine our hostess Glenda from Busy at Home created to announce the big event. It will also give you a sneak peek into what you can expect for the upcoming weeks of our Progressive Dinner.

What is a Progressive Dinner?

So what is a Progressive Dinner you might be asking? Well for 7 weeks myself and four other bloggers will each be sharing one course of a holiday dinner menu from appetizers to dessert in a round up style post. 

By the end of the seven weeks each of us will have shared a Main course, 2 side dish recipes, an appetizer, a  dessert recipe and a pot luck or gift from the kitchen recipe.

Below you will find the schedule of the recipes I will be sharing for each week and what giveaway will be available that week. You will find my fellow Blog Hop Bloggers Roundup of Progressive Dinner recipes,  below at the bottom of each weekly post. 

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Flour On My Face Progressive Dinner series schedule

 

Holiday Progressive Dinner Week 2 Recipe Links

Crock-Pot Meatballs
at Flour on My Face

Mom’s Famous Bone-In Ham
at The Gunny Sack

Pomegranate Orange Spinach Salad
at Daily Dish Recipes

Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecan Crunch Topping
at Busy-at-Home

Mini Gingerbread Bundt Cakes with Cinnamon Vanilla Bean Whipped Cream
at Adventures in All Things Food

 

Week 2 Progressive Dinner Recipe Crock Pot Meatball Appetizer

Whenever we have a family dinner I make sure to make something for everyone to nibble on while dinner is cooking. This Crock Pot Meatball Appetizer recipe comes from Amber a friend of the family. Everyone raves about her Crock Pot Meatballs.  She was generous enough to let me share the recipe. I did make a little change though. Amber uses frozen meat balls. The only way I have ever eaten meatballs was to make them the way my mother did and that was from scratch. So for this recipe I made homemade meatballs.

Crock Pot, Meatball, Appetizer

Crock Pot Meatball Appetizer

How to make Crock Pot Meatballs

 

INGREDIENTS
Meatball ingredients
  • 1½ pounds ground beef
  • ½ cup Italian Bread Crumbs
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon pepper
  • ½ teaspoon garlic powder
Meatball Sauce Ingredients
  • 1 jar Heinz Chili Sauce
  • 1-32 ounce jar grape jelly
  • 1 envelope Lipton Onion Soup
DIRECTIONS
  1. Turn the Crockpot on low and add all the Meatball Sauce ingredients. Allow to warm while mixing the meatball ingredients.
  2. In a bowl mix well the first six ingredients in a bowl. Form about 30 small meatballs.
  3. Brown meatballs in a skillet.
  4. Remove meatballs from the skillet with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels.
  5. Add drained meatballs to the Crock Pot and stir covering all meatballs with the sauce.
  6. Cook on high for 2 hours. Reduce heat and cook for another hour on low. Cook time will depend on the thickness of the meatballs.
  7. Check the center of a meatball for done-ness. Center should be cooked through. The center should not show any pink. Temperature and Crock Pot size should be taken into consideration. If Meatballs are stick pink in center continue to cook

Print the Easy Crock Pot Meatballs Appetizer recipe below

 

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Progressive Dinner: Crock Pot Meatball Appetizer

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Description

Easy Crock Pot Meatballs appetizer for the holidays.

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Ingredients

Meatball ingredients

  • 1 1/2 pounds ground beef
  • 1/2 cup Italian Bread Crumbs
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

Meatball Sauce Ingredients

  • 1 jar Heinz Chili Sauce
  • 1–32 ounce jar grape jelly
  • 1 envelope Lipton Onion Soup

Instructions

  1. Turn the Crockpot on low and add all the Meatball Sauce ingredients. Allow to warm while mixing the meatball ingredients.
  2. In a bowl mix well the first six ingredients in a bowl. Form about 30 small meatballs.
  3. Brown meatballs in a skillet.
  4. Remove meatballs from the skillet with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels.
  5. Add drained meatballs to the Crock Pot and stir covering all meatballs with the sauce.
  6. Cook on high for 2 hours. Reduce heat and cook for another hour on low. Cook time will depend on the thickness of the meatballs.
  7. Check the center of a meatball for done-ness. Center should be cooked through. The center should not show any pink. Temperature and Crock Pot size should be taken into consideration. If Meatballs are stick pink in center continue to cook

Notes

Can also be made with a bag of frozen meatballs if you are strapped for time.

  • Category: Appetizer
  • Method: Slow Cooker
  • Cuisine: American

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 4-5 Meatballs
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Progressive Dinner Sponsor and Giveaway

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 This weeks sponsor of our Progressive Dinner Blog Hop is Nielsen-Massey makers of Fine Vanillas and Flavorings. I have had the pleasure and delight of using some Nielsen-Massey flavorings in the past and they are extremely good flavorings and very concentrated. I used the Vanilla Bean Paste in my first Progressive Dinner Vanilla Bean Cheesecake Dessert Recipe and fell in love. The thick Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Bean Paste  is packed with a  pure vanilla scent and flavor. If you love vanilla like I love vanilla just open a bottle of this stuff and take a whiff. Wow is all I can say!

 

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About Arlene Mobley

Arlene Mobley author of Flour On My Face-a Food & Lifestyle website helping busy families get dinner on the table by serving easy recipes every week.

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Comments

  3. Rosie

    Golden Squash Bisque with Nielsen-Massey Pure Orange Extract. This sounds like a terrific Thanksgiving starter (and other days, too!!)!!

    Reply

  11. Shauna

    How do you choose just one recipe when they all look so good!! The vanilla mocha cafe cake sounds amazing. If I were braver, though, I’d try to make the flan!

    Reply

  15. Tracy

    I can’t seem to resist anything with pumpkin or apples lately, and I love almond cakes, so: French Apple Almond Butter Cake with Vanilla Caramel Sauce.

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  24. Mer

    I’d like to try the salmon with vanilla balsamic marinade, because it sounds very different from any way I’ve used vanilla before!

    Reply

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