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WW Recipe of the Day: Slow Cooker Cranberry Meatballs
I made these really easy 5-ingredient slow cooker cranberry meatballs for dinner last night.
Served with mashed potatoes and broccoli, they were a big hit.
They would be great as an appetizer too, served right out of your slow cooker with toothpicks on the side 🙂
Recipe Notes
You can either use store-bought meatballs, or make your own. I intended to use store bought, but ended up using premixed meatloaf mix from Sprouts to make them instead.
I didn’t precook the meatballs; just placed them in the slow cooker and poured on the sauce. The cooking time will depend on whether your meatballs are frozen, thawed, or precooked.
With just 5 ingredients, these slow cooker meatballs with cranberry gravy are as easy as they are delicious.
The recipe calls for a little bit of heavy cream. You can use evaporated milk instead. If you do, according to my calculations, calories per serving are reduced by 10, but the points value stays the same.
How Many Calories and WW Points in these Cranberry Crock Pot Meatballs?
According to my calculations, each serving has about 207 calories and:
11 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
11 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
11 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
6 *PointsPlus (Old plan)
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Slow Cooker Cranberry Meatballs Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1-1/2 pounds meatballs (about 24)
- 1 cup brown gravy (from a jar or made from a mix)
- 1 cup whole-berry cranberry sauce
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream or evaporated milk
- 2 teaspoons dijon mustard
Instructions
- Ideal slow cooker size: 4-Quart.
- Spray your slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray.
- Put the meatballs in the slow cooker.
- In a bowl, mix together the gravy, cranberry sauce, milk and mustard until well blended. Pour over the meatballs
- Cover and cook on HIGH for 2 to 3 hours or on LOW 5 to 6 hours. (The cooking time will depend on whether your meatballs are frozen, thawed, or precooked.)
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Source: Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook: 1400 Best Slow Cooker Recipes (affiliate link) by Phyllis Good
A note about WW Points
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If you like slow cooker cranberry meatballs you might also like:
- Slow Cooker Mexican Meatball Soup (Simple-Nourished-Living)
- Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Meatballs (A Year of Slow Cooking)
- Slow Cooker Sweet and Tangy Meatballs (Six Sisters Stuff)
Incredible flavor! Great party treat. Your guests will fave and adk for more. Hadto believe the WW SP value-but true!