Do you attend a lot of Holiday parties? What do you take?
This is a simple recipe that everyone enjoys!
You can make several of the Jalapeno Party Meatballs ahead of time and freeze. Then when you are going to a party, all you have to do is prepare the sauce, put the meatballs in a crockpot and cook for several hours. Transport them in the crockpot and serve!
They will be the hit of the party.
Click on the title of the recipe for a downloadable and printable version of the full recipe:
Real Texas Jalapeno Party Meatballs
Ingredients
1 lb Hamburger Meat
1 package Sloppy Joe mix
1 Egg
1 bottle Heinz Chili Sauce
1 large jar Grape Jelly or Jam
1/4 cup Jalapenos, minced
Directions
All you need is hamburger, Sloppy Joe Mix, and an egg for the first part. Take the Sloppy Joe Mix, egg, and mix it thoroughly to the hamburger.
Once you have your meat mixture mixed together. You are going to form little bite sized meatballs for your appetizer. Place them on an olive oil coated cookie sheet and put them in the refrigerator for at one hour.
Take the meatballs out of the refrigerator and preheat the oven to 400F degrees. Bake them for 15 minutes. Halfway through, turn them over just to get them golden brown on all sides. Take the meatballs out of the oven and as you can see they are nice and cooked in brown.
Take the bottles of the chili sauce, and jar of Grape Jam or you can use jelly. Put the slow cooker on high because we want the jelly to dissolve.
Add fresh minced jalapenos. Add meatballs and turn it down to low. Cook for several hours. You can keep coming back tasting it and you’ll know when they’re ready.
You can bring the meatballs to a party in a crock pot and you can leave the crock pot plugged in so the meatballs stay hot and warm.
You’re guests can either use a toothpick or those toothpicks with flags at the end.
This is my recipe for the Real Texas Jalapeno Meatballs.
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The ingredients for your recipe doesn’t mention the minced Jalapeno it only lists 1/4 cup Spicy Globe Basil, chopped which I do not see being added to the meatballs. Should I assume this should be 1/4 cup minced Jalapeno instead of the Basil?
Sorry, updated, on the printable version too! The recipe is also on Ramona’s Basil Garden site with of course Basil! lol
Wow these look great. I always tend to rely on frozen meatballs whenever I have guest over, but this recipe looks so good that I might have to try it. I’m sure fresh meatballs will beat frozen any day. Thanks!
This is much like a recipe I have for Lil’ Smokies–bet I could really improve my current recipe by improvising with yours. (I’m too lazy to work with the HB meat).
Anyway, sounds great!