Slow Cooker Meatballs In Garlic And Chilli Sauce
With our delicious, easy recipe for slow cooker meatballs in a sticky garlic and chilli sauce, you can let the slow cooker do the hard work!
Our super easy midweek meal of meatballs in the slow cooker uses cheat ingredients to skip any time consuming food prep. You don't even need to brown the meatballs. This is a true dump-and-go slow cooker recipe!
This is a great meal for weeknights when you're busy and just want dinner to be cooked and ready to eat.
All you'll need to do is serve with rice or noodles for an easy, delicious, mouthwateringly good dinner! It's also super yummy served with our easy air fryer salt and pepper chips.
Equipment Needed
- Chopping board
- Vegetable knife
- Slow cooker
- Cooking spoon
Slow Cooker Meatballs Ingredients
You'll only need a handful of ingredients to make our delicious sticky meatballs
- 300g garlic and chilli stir fry sauce - just use a jar or packet
- 24 beef meatballs
- 1 green pepper - chunkily diced
- 1 green chilli - finely sliced
- 8 spring onions - sliced
How To Cook Meatballs In The Slow Cooker
You're going to love how simple this weeknight dinner recipe is to throw together and cook!
Step One - preheat the slow cooker
- Preheat the slow cooker to the high temperature setting.
Step Two - add the meatballs and sauce
- Pour the garlic and chilli sauce into the slow cooker pan.
- Tip in the meatballs, no need to brown.
- Give everything a mix together to coat the meatballs.
Step Three - cook the slow cooker meatballs
- Put the lid onto the slow cooker pan, and cook the meatballs on high for 2 hours 30 minutes.
Step Four - add the diced pepper
- Take the lid off the slow cooker, tip in the diced green peppers and give everything a stir.
- Return the lid and continue to cook for a further 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Step Five - serve the slow cooker meatballs with garlic and chilli sauce
- Once the beef meatballs are cooked through properly, serve with your favourite side dish - try plain boiled rice, egg fried rice, noodles or even air fryer chips or mashed potatoes.
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Slow Cooker Meatballs - Recipe Variations
It's really simple to make slow cook meatballs, and it's also super easy to switch up the ingredients and make them in different styles.
Italian slow cooker meatballs
Simply swap the garlic and chilli stir fry sauce for some tomato sauce, either homemade or from a jar. Then serve with freshly cooked pasta and try a slice of air fryer garlic bread on the side.
Slow cook meatball curry
Simmer the meatballs in a jar of spicy curry sauce and serve with rice and naan bread for a simple, meatball curry.
Use turkey or chicken meatballs instead
Want to skip the red meat? Try cooking the recipe using shop-bought turkey or chicken meatballs instead.
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Slow Cooker Meatballs Recipe Tips
Grab our tips below to make sure you always get tasty slow cooker meatballs!
How long to cook meatballs in slow cooker or crockpot?
It's best to cook meatballs on high in the slow cooker and they'll take around 4 hours. Always check the internal temperature of slow cooker meat to be sure it's hot enough and cooked through properly.
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Should you brown meatballs before slow cooking?
You can if you wish, although it's not necessary. So it's just a matter of taste preference although... we don't think it makes that bigger difference.
Will meatballs fall apart in the slow cooker?
We find that slow cooking meatballs is best suited to shop bought meatballs rather than homemade ones, which do tend to crumble a little in the slow cooker.
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Slow Cooker Meatballs In Garlic And Chilli Sauce
A super easy dump-and-go slow cooker meatball recipe - no browning or faff needed!
Ingredients
- 300g garlic and chilli stir fry sauce
- 24 beef meatballs
- 1 green pepper - chunkily diced
- 1 green chilli - finely sliced
- 8 spring onions - sliced
Instructions
- Preheat the slow cooker to the high temperature setting.
- Pour the garlic and chilli sauce into the slow cooker pan.
- Tip in the meatballs, no need to brown.
- Give everything a mix together to coat the meatballs.
- Put the lid onto the slow cooker pan, and cook the meatballs on high for 2 hours 30 minutes.
- Take the lid off the slow cooker, tip in the diced green peppers and give everything a stir.
- Return he lid and continue to cook for a further 1 hour and 30 minutes.
- Once the beef meatballs are cooked through properly, serve with your favourite side dish.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 542Total Fat: 24gSaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 12gCholesterol: 98mgSodium: 1086mgCarbohydrates: 55gFiber: 7gSugar: 11gProtein: 32g
Nutritional content will vary depending on the exact ingredients you use and how careful you are with measuring - this nutritional information is given as a general guide only and may not be accurate - you should always calculate your own nutritional information especially if you have specific dietary requirements.
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Wendy is the creator of Daisies & Pie, a UK food blog sharing easy meals and home lifestyle tips since 2012
