Description
Crock Pot Sweet and Sour Meatballs offer a simple recipe perfect for busy night dinners. This easy dinner brings together sweet pineapple and tangy sauce over meatballs for a delicious family dinner any weeknight meal.
Ingredients
Scale
- 28 ounce bag frozen meatballs
- 20 ounce can pineapple chunks in 100% juice save juice
- 1 green pepper diced into chunks
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ⅔ cup vinegar
- 2 tablespoon soy sauce
- 3 tablespoon cornstarch
Instructions
- Drain the pineapple juice into a bowl and set aside.
- Place the frozen meatballs into a 4-6 quart crock pot.
- Add pineapple chunks and diced green peppers on top of the meatballs.
- Whisk the brown sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, and cornstarch into the reserved pineapple juice until combined.
- Pour this sauce over the meatballs. Cover and cook on the low setting for 2 hours.
- Change the crock pot to high and continue cooking for 1 more hour to thicken the sauce and let it bubble around the edges.
Notes
- The meatballs do not need to be thawed first
- They go in frozen
- Don’t like peppers? Just leave them out! Frozen meatball packages all come in varying sizes depending on the brand
- This recipe will accommodate all standard size bags of meatballs – as long as it isn’t family size, it will work
- If your can of pineapples doesn’t give you a full cup of pineapple juice, you may need to supplement with a little more or just add a touch of water to get you up to one cup
- For a meal, serve with rice
- For an appetizer, serve with toothpicks or set aside bowls for your guests to serve themselves
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 3 hours
- Category: Appetizer, Main Course
- Method: Slow Cooker
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Calories: 395kcal
- Sugar: 49g
- Sodium: 384mg
- Fat: 13g
- Carbohydrates: 55g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 12g