Cheesy Slow-Cooker Meatballs and Twisted Garlic Bread
Shawn Syphus
Updated May 20, 2015
Stuff meatballs with mozzarella cheese for a simple spin on spaghetti, sure to please even your pickiest eaters.
Cheesy Slow-Cooker Meatballs and Twisted Garlic Bread
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 4 hr 15 min
- Ingredients 8
- Servings 6
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lb lean (at least 80%) ground beef
- 1/2 cup Progresso™ Italian style bread crumbs
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 egg, slightly beaten
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 5 mozzarella cheese sticks, cut into small pieces
- 1 jar (24 oz) tomato pasta sauce
- 1 package (l lb) pasta
Instructions
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Step1In large bowl, mix beef, bread crumbs, milk egg, salt and pepper with hands until well combined. Shape mixture into small balls about the size of a Ping-Pong ball.
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Step2With finger, make hole in 1 ball but do not go all the way through. Place 1 piece of cheese in hole; enclose cheese by pinching hole back together. Repeat with remaining beef mixture and cheese pieces.
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Step3Spray 3 1/2- to 4-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. Pour pasta sauce into cooker. Place meatballs in sauce.
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Step4Cover; cook on Low heat setting 4 hours.
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Step5About 25 to 30 minutes before meatballs are done, cook pasta as directed on package; drain.
Nutrition
710
Calories
23g
Total Fat
42g
Protein
85g
Total Carbohydrate
12g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 710
- Calories from Fat
- 210
- Total Fat
- 23g
- 35%
- Saturated Fat
- 9g
- 43%
- Trans Fat
- 1g
- Cholesterol
- 115mg
- 39%
- Sodium
- 780mg
- 32%
- Potassium
- 750mg
- 21%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 85g
- 28%
- Dietary Fiber
- 6g
- 24%
- Sugars
- 12g
- Protein
- 42g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 20%
- 20%
- Vitamin C
- 10%
- 10%
- Calcium
- 25%
- 25%
- Iron
- 35%
- 35%
Exchanges:
5 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 1/2 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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