Meatballs Subs
Rich saucy meatballs to serve on subs!
Equipment
- 3.5L or larger slow cooker
Ingredients
- Ready Made Raw Meatballs (approx 40)
- 1 small Onion diced
- 500 gram jar PASTA BAKE sauce (see notes)
- 1/2 cup BBQ sauce
- 1 cup grated cheese (to serve)
- (Hot dog rolls to serve)
Instructions
- Add onions to slow cooker and place raw meatballs on top of onion.
- Combine the pasta bake sauce and BBQ sauce and pour over.
- Cook for 4hrs on low.Don’t stir at all until final 90mins, then gently move them around. This way they’ll always stay perfectly intact and separated with no need to pre cook or brown them etc.
- Serve on hotdog rolls with grated cheese for an easy dinner that kids love!
- – RECIPE NOTES – Any meatball flavour works : beef, pork & veal, chicken too.You specifically want a 'pasta bake' sauce which is creamier than a regular spaghetti/pasta sauce. But either will work if that's all you have. This recipe is also great with chopped thin beef sausages!We deliberately use ready made meatballs and sauces in this recipe to make this a FAST & EASY recipe. If you prefer to make your meatballs and sauce from scratch here is one you might prefer on a day you have more time (HERE)You can increase or decrease the number of meatballs you use to suit your family's needs.
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Everyone loved these!
I grated a carrot in the slow cooker at the end for some extra veg for my kids.
My son loved it and hes the worlds pickiest eater ?
Quick and easy dinner after running around kids sports on a weekend. Hubby loved them. 1 year old inhaled one as well.
Quick and easy and extremely delicious. Halved this recipe to fit into the 1.5L cooker so a very cheap meal to make. Tastes even better the next day ???
First time I’ve cooked Meatballs this way. I used a jar of Spinach and Ricotta Pasta bake sauce, threw in extra spinach at the end. Went down a treat, got two lots of leftovers. Thanks for the inspiration.
This recipe was absolutely delish,
Added pasta to the leftovers..
Will definitely be hanging this again 10/10
I added mushrooms to the recipe and was so delicious and my family loved it and definitely be cooking to again.
That’s awesome – thanks Sharon 🙂
I made this with the spinach and ricotta pasta bake. I left out the BBQ sauce (we’re not really big fans) and added an extra 1/2 cup of pasta bake to it. Served it in wraps with salad on the side. Then used the leftovers the next night over pasta – two meals in one
Thanks for your great suggestions Fiona 🙂
So easy to make, and Delicious. My son wiped out the leftovers i had planned to take for lunch the next day.
So easy! Left out BBQ sauce. Used tomato and mozzarella pasta bake sauce. Served in hot dog rolls with grated cheese, salad on the side. Will serve differently next time as family is not a fan of hot dog rolls, but otherwise it will be added to the rotation in various forms.
Thanks Amanda!
I changed it up a bit and added 2 slices of Mild Hungarian Salami before adding the meatballs. Easy to make and a hit in our house.
Thanks for the great suggestion Megzie! 🙂
I did this a little different. I used 3 cheese pasta sauce and then put in the BBQ sauce and used the American style bbq sauce from coles. Everyone loved it and their was no left overs as i halved the recipe as we don’t have many in my household.
Sounds the same to me – so pleased you enjoyed it 🙂
omg this was absolutely delicious I used beef and cheese meatballs and loved by everyone I was a little worried that it would turn to mush as it was on for 5 and a half hours got home later then I expected, but nope it was still perfect, will definitely be cooking this again
So pleased you enjoyed it Sarah – sounds like you impressed the family too! 🙂
I made this last night hubby and son said sauce was to strong (fussy buggers) but I loved it