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With only 3 ingredients these sweet & tangy balls make a quick and easy party appetizer. Your guests will love them!
I asked everyone on Twitter & Facebook last night what I should post today. I was torn between posting a savory or a sweet and needed some votes. Of course they ended up with the same amount of sweet votes and savory votes so luckily I have both in one dish for y’all today :)
I’m bringing a post back from the past today. These sweet & tangy balls were first on the blog last year and they definitely needed to be in the spotlight again cause first, I doubt you guys even went back that far in my archives to find them, and secondly, I doubt my pictures back then could’ve whet your appetite ;)
Whenever I throw a party, this is my NUMBER ONE go to dish, and for extremely good reason. These meatballs are like crack. They fly out of the crockpot. Everyone’s plate is always full of these and I don’t blame them. Honestly, if you make a double batch of these and have chip, guac, salsa (and some booze, duh) and nothing else; your guests would be more than satisfied. I could’ve sworn, at the rate the meatballs were being consumed at our housewarming a couple weekends ago, there could’ve been a rock-paper-scissor championship for the last couple meatballs.
One of the BEST parts of this appetizer is: it’s three ingredients, you don’t do anything except throw everything in the crockpot, stir every few hours, and serve. So easy. Who needs a complicated dish when they’re hosting?
I guarantee you that if you make these for your next party, everyone will go ape-sh!t over them. No exaggeration. These are 200% guaranteed to be a hit. My mom made these for us when were younger and we ate them over white rice for dinner. Yeah, we were healthy kids.
Man, now I’m craving some (meat)balls.
Oh, bee-tee-dubs, officially 8 months today ’til the big day…who’s counting? Certainly not me ;)
Sweet & Tangy Balls
Equipment
Ingredients
- Large pack of frozen meatballs, mine had about 64 in them
- 16 ounce (453 g) jar grape jelly
- 12 ounce (340 g) jar of chili sauce, (I used a Wegman's brand but Heinz sells them too; it's usually located near the ketchup & hot sauce)
Instructions
- In a small pot on medium high heat, combine jelly and chili sauce until they’re combined and jelly is not chunky.
- Put the entire bag of meatballs in the slow cooker insert and pour the jelly chili sauce on top, stir the meatballs around until they’re all coated.
- Cook on high for 4 hours or low for 6 hours. Toss every couple hours or so to re-coat the meatballs in the sauce.
- Serve hot.
I LOVE meatballs! These looks amazing!
hehehe sweet and tangy balls. Childish laughter is erupting from me right now. But seriously, I love meat balls. Perfect party food. I can go back 15 million times and never feel guilty.
Ahhh I missed you girl!!
I love easy party recipes like this! It makes entertaining more fun! :)
I like that you brought this back from the archives – I have lots of wonderful recipes from the early days of my blog that will probably never see the light of day again (but thats probably due to my awful photos lol)
you totally had me at the title! I’ve always heard people rave about this recipe–I’ve never tried it. I guess it’s time I give it a go!
These sound just packed full of flavour, love it!
Nothing beats a super easy recipe for entertaining that your guests will love. Glad you brought out this blast from the past…totally worth it!
Yum, I remember these. Still on my list of ‘to make one day’ meals! And I’d be surprised if you weren’t counting down!
I’m so glad you brought these back! They look amazing, and you know we all need more slow cooker recipes!
Freaking. Out. over these meatballs. I love them! And that glaze/sauce is incredible. Want!
Swoon! These look awesome – now, I need to throw a dinner party!!