Cocktail Meatballs & Wiener Recipe with Holiday Link up

Tis the season to eat cocktail meatballs and wieners. This is one of the items that will be served at my Christmas Open House. They are a HUGE hit and I always run out of them. No leftovers with this dish, drats! Every year I increase the amount by one pound of beef. So this year I'm up to 6 pounds for the meatballs and 2 pounds for the wieners. Let's see how far this take the crowd.

This recipe is for 6 pounds of beef. Adjusted it according to how much you need to make.

Cocktail Meatballs & Wieners (crock pot)

6 pounds of ground beef, turkey or chicken. I use 80/20 ground beef
2 large white onions, chopped/minced in food processor
3 large carrots, cleaned and chopped/minced in food processor
2 stalks of celery, chopped/minced in food processor
3 tablespoons of seasoning (your choice-I usually use seasoning salt)
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
1 roll of crackers, crushed (Ritz or anything kind you have on hand)

Sauce

80 ounces of BBQ Sauce (largest that they had at store)
32 ounces Grape Jelly
1 cup orange juice

Mix all the ingredients together by hand (except the sauce ingredients). I wear food prep gloves to do this. Do it quickly because you do not want to over work the meat. Then get a small cookie dough scoop and form your balls. I do this so that they are all the same size. You can freeze them until ready to use or add to crock pot.

This recipe uses 2 large crock pots. Divide up the sauce ingredients into the 2 crockpots. Add in meatballs. Let cook on high for 4 hours. About 1 hour before serving add in the wieners if you want them. That is enough time to get them warm.

This particular recipe made 200 meatballs! YES that is a lot and YES they will all get eaten!

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