Tailgate Grape Jelly Meatballs Recipes

GRAPE JELLY MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Combine grape jelly, chili sauce, and cayenne pepper in a saucepan over medium-high heat; cook until warm, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Place meatballs in a slow cooker and top with grape jelly mixture.
• Cook on Low for 3 to 4 hours.

GRAPE JELLY MEATBALLS

Steps:

• combine chili sauce, grape jelly and water in medium saucepan until lumps of jelly are well combined.
• to prepare meatballs,.
• mix ground beef with salt and pepper to taste, add eggs and enough cracker crumbs, I like to use Ritz, to be able to form into size meatballs your family likes --.
• I usually like to cook meatballs a little in a skillet with small amount of oil, or bake in oven -- and then add to crockpot and simmer 2-3 hours on low -- .

TAILGATE GRAPE JELLY MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Thaw out the meatballs.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Mix 8 oz. grape jelly and 12 oz. chili sauce in separate bowl.
• Place meatballs in a large baking dish.
• Pour sauce mixture over the meatballs.
• Bake meatballs for 1 hour, making sure to stir them around about half way through.

TAILGATE MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*F. (175*C).
• In a large bowl, mix together the ground beef, egg, water, bread crumbs, and minced onion. Roll into small meatballs.
• Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, turning once.
• In a slow cooker or large saucepan over low heat, blend the cranberry sauce, chili sauce, brown sugar, and lemon juice. Add meatballs, and simmer for 1 hour before serving.
• My Update Note: I have been making these meatballs for 30 years or more. I however use cornflakes crumbs instead of bread crumbs. I also put 1/3 cup parsley; I use 1/4 cup ketchup instead of water and 1 teaspoons soy sauce. Just a thought from an old chef.
• Sometime I used frozen meatballs. Most jellied cranberry sauce come in 16 oz cans so if you decide to use the whole can you'll need to double all the other ingredients. Typical chili sauce comes in 12oz. bottle so you'll need two bottles if you use the full can of cranberry. Hope this helps your shopping.
• I have made these numerous times and am ashamed to admit I'm just now reviewing them. Wonderful addition to the regular grape jelly recipes out there with great meatballs -- Based on experience and personal preference with these cocktail meatballs I offer the following suggestions: 1.) Add one packet of Lipton onion soup mix to the meatball mixture if you do not have time to mince or grate the onion. 2.) Bake meatballs over a drip pan to reduce the fat before adding to the sauce. 3.) If using frozen meatballs ENSURE you DO NOT use Italian meatballs as this upsets the balance of the meatballs and sauce (yuck)! 3.) Make the sauce the day before to let the flavors marry - I can't stress what a difference this makes! This recipe gets better the next day. 4.) The Heinz sauce in the round bottle seems to be the best chili sauce for this mixture. Reviewers: I seriously dislike people that rate a recipe based on the changes they have made to the original. I want to state that I rated this recipe on the recipe Lara submitted. The changes I suggested were based on my family's personal preference.

GRAPE JELLY MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Combine first three ingredients in a medium saucepan and heat until warm.
• Dump meatballs in crockpot and pour sauce over. Cook on low 3-4 hours.