Description
This easy slow cooker recipe cooks Italian style beef meatballs to tender, juicy perfection in marinara sauce. Serve it as spaghetti and meatballs, meatball subs, or any of your favorite meatball dishes.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1.5 lbs lean ground beef
- 3/4 cup Italian bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup beef broth
- 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp Italian seasonings
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 24 oz marinara sauce
Instructions
- Combine: In a large bowl, combine ground beef, bread crumbs, broth, parmesan cheese, eggs, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, onion powder, and salt. Use a spoon, or your hands to work the mixture until everything is evenly combined.
- Shape: Roll meat into 24 balls, about 1.5-2 in in diameter.
- Arrange: Pour the marinara sauce in the bottom of the slow cooker. Nestle the meatballs into the sauce.
- Cook: Cook on low for 4 hours, or high for 2.5 hours.
Notes
Use lean ground beef (such as 90% lean) to prevent the dish from becoming too greasy since the fat cannot be drained in a slow cooker. These can be prepped as a freezer meal by freezing formed meatballs in a bag for up to 6 months.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 4 hours
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Slow Cooker
- Cuisine: Italian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 3 meatballs
- Calories: 213 kcal
- Sugar: 4 g
- Sodium: 889 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 1 g
- Carbohydrates: 13 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 24 g
- Cholesterol: 97 mg
Keywords: crock pot meatballs, marinara sauce, slow cooker beef meatballs, Italian meatballs