Slow Cooked Italian Meatballs
Slow Cooked Italian Meatballs

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, slow cooked italian meatballs. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Slow Cooked Italian Meatballs is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Slow Cooked Italian Meatballs is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook slow cooked italian meatballs using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Slow Cooked Italian Meatballs:
  1. Prepare 1 hamburger meat (family sized package)
  2. Prepare 2 cup italian seasoned breadcrumbs
  3. Prepare 2 eggs
  4. Take 1 tbsp salt
  5. Make ready 1 tbsp pepper
  6. Take 1 tbsp garlic powder or salt
  7. Make ready 1 can tomato sauce or use your own homemade

Sprinkle with a pinch of salt and pepper. Mix with your hands until combined. These slow cooker meatballs are Italian style and made with ground beef, parmesan cheese, herbs and spices. They're slow simmered to tender perfection in the crock pot and are perfect served over spaghetti or as a hearty appetizer.

Steps to make Slow Cooked Italian Meatballs:
  1. Combine all ingredients except the sauce and use your hands to mix together. If I feel like it needs more spice, I will add more breadcrumbs, salt, and pepper depending on how much meat I have.
  2. start forming the meatballs rolling pieces of the meat in your hands
  3. slightly pan fry meatballs so they are slightly browned on the outside
  4. Pour sauce into crockpot. I usually add some different Italian spices to the sauce. I also sometimes add red pepper spice to give it a kick.
  5. add slightly browned meatballs into the crockpot
  6. Allow meatballs to cook in crockpot for 6-8 hours (the longer the better). I let it cook sometimes up to 10 hours.
  7. Spoon off excess grease that rose to the top when meatballs are done cooking. Stir and then serve.

The meatballs were great; but, the sauce was VERY bland. This helped them retain there shape and to allow the grease to drip off. I added two additional garlic cloves but it was still bland. To make these Meatballs as a freezer meal: Make and bake the meatballs as directed above. Label a heavy-duty zip-top freezer bag with the recipe name, date, and slow cooking instructions.

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