Original video by @applesauceandadhd — all credit to the creator.
Slow Cooker Meatball Stew
Frozen meatballs simmer low and slow with potatoes, carrots, onion and a mountain of garlic in a savory beef-stew broth. A freezer-clean-out dinner that tastes like you planned it all week.
Ingredients
- 1small yellow onion · chopped
- 4yellow potatoes · rustically chopped
- 2 small bagsfrozen restaurant-style meatballs
- —baby carrots
- —garlic · a metric ton, pre-minced so you don't have to chop
- 1 packetbeef stew seasoning mix · or your own homemade blend
- 3 cupslow-sodium chicken broth · the seasoning mix calls for water; broth is a swap for what's on hand
Steps
- 1
Chop the yellow onion and add it to the slow cooker.
- 2
Rustically chop the potatoes and add them to the slow cooker.
- 3
Add the frozen meatballs, baby carrots and garlic to the slow cooker.
- 4
Sprinkle in the beef stew seasoning mix and pour in 3 cups of low-sodium chicken broth.
- 5
Stir everything together, cover, and cook for 4 to 6 hours, until the potatoes and carrots are tender.
- 6
Plate it up and taste it. Of course it's good.
Creator's notes
Made as a freezer clean-out — she swapped in low-sodium chicken broth for the water the stew seasoning called for simply because it was already open in the fridge. Cook time is flexible: "four hours, six hours until I feel like eating."
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