Cocktail Meatballs (Cranberry Meatballs)

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Prep: 20 minutes
Cook: 1 hr thirty minutes
Total: 1 hour 50 minutes




SWEET & SPICY CRANBERRY COCKTAIL MEATBALLS are the perfect holiday appetizer! Cooked in a cranberry pepper jelly sauce; SO delicious! The best Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Years Eve appetizer!







Cocktail Meatballs are a must for whatever vacation political party. These delicious Cranberry Meatballs are perfectly sweet together with spicy, in addition to then delicious!

Ingredients

For the Meatballs

  • two pounds earth chuck
  • i loving cup breadcrumbs
  • two large eggs slightly beaten
  • two tablespoons sweet chili sauce
  • two tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
  • two tablespoons minced onion optional
  • ½ teaspoon kosher salt

For the Cranberry Pepper Jelly Sauce

  • 10 ounces hot pepper jelly (i jolt)
  • 12 ounces chili sauce (one jounce)
  • eight ounces jellied cranberry sauce (one jar)
  • two tablespoons nighttime dark-brown saccharide
  • i tablespoon lemon juice (from ½ lemon)

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Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F together with line a baking canvas alongside parchment newspaper.
  • In a large bowl, combine the ground chuck, breadcrumbs, eggs, chili sauce, Worcestershire sauce, onion, too salt. Mix until all ingredients are incorporated merely make not overwork the mixture or the meatballs volition live tough.
    two pounds earth chuck, 1 loving cup breadcrumbs, two large eggs, two tablespoons sweet chili sauce, ii tablespoons Worcestershire sauce, ii tablespoons minced onion, ½ teaspoon kosher table salt
  • Form into i½-inch meatballs together with place on the prepared baking canvas. Leave at least i-inch space betwixt meatballs.
  • Cook at 350°F for x minutes, then plough each meatball over. Cook some other ten-xv minutes, or until meatballs are cooked through. Remove from oven.
  • While the meatballs fix, fix the sauce: In a large skillet set up over low rut, combine all of the sauce ingredients. Stir until good blended then remove from rut until the meatballs are prepare.
    x ounces hot pepper jelly, 12 ounces chili sauce, viii ounces jellied cranberry sauce, ii tablespoons night brownish saccharide, ane tablespoon lemon juice
  • When the meatballs are cooked, place them inward the sauce inwards the skillet as well as simmer for ane hr, or until the sauce has thickened.






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Becky’sec tips

Yield: This recipe makes nigh xl (1½-inch) meatballs. A serving is four meatballs.


  • Take tending non to over-mix the meatballs, or they volition get tough.

  • Properly cooked meatballs should register 165°F internally inwards the eye.

  • For a less sweetness version, endeavor using whole cranberry sauce instead of jellied.

  • The meatballs together with sauce tin can simmer on high inwards a crockpot for the last hour.


Storage: Store cocktail meatballs inwards an airtight container inwards the fridge for upwardly to 4 days or in the freezer for upwards to three months.






Nutrition Information





Calories: 441kcal (22%) Carbohydrates: 46g (xv%) Protein: nineteeng (38%) Fat: 20g (31%) Saturated Fat: 7g (44%) Polyunsaturated Fat: oneg Monounsaturated Fat: viiig Trans Fat: oneg Cholesterol: 102mg (34%) Sodium: 816mg (35%) Potassium: 447mg (13%) Fiber: 2g (8%) Sugar: 32g (36%) Vitamin A: 482IU (ten%) Vitamin C: ninemg (xi%) Calcium: 55mg (half-dozen%) Iron: threemg (17%)















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