Mexicano Meatballs
Easy meatballs in a creamy mex-taco sauce!
Equipment
- 3L or larger slow cooker
Ingredients
- 2 trays ready-made meatballs (raw) – I used 2 x trays of 20 small pork and veal meatballs per tray
- 300 ml cooking cream
- 300 g jar of salsa – we prefer mild but you can use hot
- 2 pkts taco seasoning mix – we prefer the reduced salt version
Instructions
- Combine the cooking cream, salsa and taco mix and pour into slow cooker
- Place meatballs, raw, into sauce mixture
- Cook on low for 5hrs
- When cooking meatballs, do not stir until at least 2-3hrs into cooking time. The meatballs are then sealed by that point, and you can stir gently to mix through sauce occasionally from then on and they won't break apart at all 🙂
- We served ours on a potato and chive mash
- Note: We use ready-made, raw meatballs in this recipe for a quick easy meal. However, if you prefer to use your own home-made meatballs you can absolutely do so using your usual favourite meatball recipe. Then just add those to the sauce as per recipe and continue.
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Are these meatballs suitable to freeze?
Thank you
I haven’t tried freezing them Michelle but I believe they’d be ok to do so 🙂
Achieved the holy grail with these. A meal that was quick, easy, inexpensive and delicious. Even the kids thought so! I served it with microwave Mexican rice for a quick after sport dinner, will definitely be making its way into our regular rotation.
OMG these are so delicious and so easy to make… my husband asked when I can make them again.. and he is a fuzzy eater.. so I guess this is going to be my easy go to food when I am in a hurry in the morning..
Was very tasty, next time I will add just 1 packet of seasoning as others found it a little spicy whereas I like a little spice and I loved it
Oh man this was delicious. My husband nearly licked his plate clean ?
I used one packet of pre-made meatballs.
I have two of my three grown up boys coming home next week, so I will make this again with two
trays of meat balls.
This is one of our favourite dishes, always thinking there will be plenty for another meal but nope always gone in one sitting.
Thank you for this recipe, so easy and delicious. I did not have cooking cream so subbed coconut cream and it worked well, also added a couple of tins of Edgells Mexican bean mix for the last hour to stretch it further.
Great suggestions – thanks Maryellen!!
Absolutely delicious! Mr fussy also enjoyed. Will definately make them again
Absolutely delish! This was a winner with my family Served ours with mash & corn cobs. Husband & kids gobbled it up
Another great recipe.
Easy and little bit spicy as I used medium salsa.
Served with rice and veg.
Next time I’d like to try in a burrito.
made these delicious, halfed all ingredients an cooked in 1.5 sc, so tasty will definitely make again, thanks , Pauline
Oh my! This is delicious ? and so simple. Will be putting it in the favourites list. Thankyou for the recipe ?
Loved how versatile these meatballs are. We only used 1 tray of meatballs and some garlic as it’s only the 2 of us. Tonight we had them as meatball subs with fresh bread rolls. The leftovers we will have with spaghetti. Thankyou for easy and versatile recipes Paulene and all contributors.
Excellent. Will definitely make again.
Delicious, lol, found out why to use salt reduced Taco mix, was a tad salty, so I know for next time.
These are really good, very easy to make, taste soo good, even the grandkids enjoyed them. I will definitely be making them a lot more. They freeze well too
Thanks Cathy, that’s great to know they freeze well too! 🙂