Description
These slow cooker turkey meatballs in tomato sauce are a great alternative to traditional beef meatballs. Can be served over pasta or make meatball sandwiches with sauteed onions and peppers with melted Italian cheese over the top. Fantastic!
Ingredients
- ¼ cup minced onion
- 1 tablespoon Italian-style salad dressing
- 1 ½ pounds ground turkey
- 1 ¼ cups Italian-seasoned bread crumbs
- 5 cloves garlic, crushed
- 2 tablespoons Italian seasoning
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 2 (14.5 ounce) cans Italian-style diced tomatoes
- 1 (26 ounce) jar marinara sauce
- 2 teaspoons dried basil
Instructions
- Cook onion and Italian dressing in a small sauté pan over medium heat for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool slightly
- about 5 minutes.
- Combine turkey
- bread crumbs
- garlic
- sautéed onions
- Italian seasoning
- salt
- and pepper in a bowl; mix well.
- Combine diced tomatoes
- marinara sauce
- and dried basil in a second bowl; set aside.
- Form 1/2 of the turkey mixture into 1 1/2-inch meatballs and layer them in the bottom of a slow cooker. Pour 1/2 of the diced tomato mixture over meatballs. Form remaining turkey mixture into meatballs and layer with remaining tomato mixture.
- Cover and cook on Low for 8 hours or High for 4 hours.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 4 hrs 5 mins
Total Time: 4 hrs 25 mins
Servings: 6