Tangy Sweet and Sour Meatballs

By Lsweetnell

These sweet and sour meatballs are a great recipe for taking to pot luck, parties, office pig-ins. Always gets lots of compliments. Make sure you have a source to plug the crock pot in once you get to your location. I usually get them started two hours before I start to get ready (for me that can take an hour) to go to my location. So by the time I leave they are pretty much have already been cooking for two hours and are ready to eat.

Kids love it. It's so simple. Be sure to start the process at least 3 hours before serving. I guided my 8 year old grandson to make this and he was so proud when people were coming over to say how much they loved the meatballs.

This works great for cocktail sausages also.

By all means, if you wish, make your own meatballs; however, these days with the price of hamburger, its half the price to use the frozen ones and people still love them.

Ingredients

• 3 (12 ounce) jars Heinz chili sauce (have tried other chili sauces and they just don't stack up to Heinz)
• 1 (16 - 18 ounce) jar grape jelly
• 1 large package frozen meatballs (there are about 80 to 100 in a bag)

Details

Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 240mins

Preparation

Step 1

Put frozen meatballs in a crock pot and get them started on high.

Combine jelly and chili sauce in a sauce pan on low heat and warm until grape jelly is dissolved. Stir occasionally. Add the sauce once the grape jelly is dissolved (doing this will save you an hour cooking time) to the meatballs or cocktail sausages and set temperature to low.

Cook for 2 - 4 hours on low. Gently toss occasionally with a soft sided large spoon.

Serve over rice or mashed potatoes if you wish to eat as a meal or leave on warm in crock pot without the rice or potatoes for people to pluck out a couple to munch on. They will go back for more! Most people will eat four to six of these.

This makes a bunch, can always cut the recipe in half for home meal.
Dedicated to Lance, my chef and medic.