If you read my last post you know I love collecting (well,
have an addiction to) canned pumpkin. In that post I also ‘fessed up to owning
my fair share of canned cranberry sauce, canned mandarin oranges and peanut
butter….. Someone in the comments admitted to hoarding ketchup, which I must
admit I also do… BUT… and this is BIG!
ONLY IN THE SUMMER! HA!
I hosted a party last night for co-workers and served these
meatballs WHICH CALL FOR TWO CANS OF CRANBERRY SAUCE! Yes, I know! The pantry
gods were smiling.
I doubled the sauce and tripled the amount of meatballs.
This is the perfect amount for a full crock pot.
12 ounces
chili sauce
1 can whole
berry cranberry sauce
27 ounces
sauerkraut, undrained (more or less is fine also)
½ C brown
sugar
16 ounces
meatballs
Mix the
sauce. Pour over meatballs and gently stir. Pour into crock pot and cook all
day on low.
Truly,
everyone loves these. The sauerkraut kinda melts away so even if you ‘don’t
like’ it (what’s wrong with you?), you will never know it’s in there. The first
time I made these was for a huge church party. I was in charge of 300 servings
of meatballs. I made a roaster full of these, plus a roaster full of a spicy
Mexican meatball and also a roaster full of an Asian meatball….. everyone loved
these. They always do.
Now, off to
eat some mandarin oranges.
Sounds very tasty - and I love mandarin oranges too :)))
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how secret ingredients like sauerkraut go undetected in great dishes. I'm not a sauerkraut fan but I do take your word for it that they are delicious.
ReplyDeleteI had some at the party, they were delecious. I'm not a fan of saurkraut but I still loved them.
ReplyDeleteI can relate! Just this week I was looking in my pantry and saw a can of cranberry sauce and a can of mandarin oranges and thought to myself I should make an effort to use those up soon. But there's something kind of comforting about having some canned goods like that stashed away in the pantry.
ReplyDeleteThese meatball sound like they would be full of flavor. I would have never thought of pairing cranberry sauce with sauerkraut, very interesting. I usually have a pantry full of different kinds of beans.
ReplyDelete@Words of Deliciousness - if you have a variety of beans you should make baked beans! I have a recipe here on my blog that is fantastic and calls for lots of types of beans.
ReplyDeleteWhat a different combination of flavors... I bet they meatballs are a bit sweet & tart. YUM!
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