A few weeks ago a representative of FarmRich emailed me to see if I would be interested in a cookbook and a sample of meatballs. Sure!

Meatballs are great homemade, but if you can get good ones that are frozen they can be a great last minute meal. I decided to make the Saucy Meatball Grinders from the cookbook, which is called 101 Things to Do with Meatballs. I did get permission to give the recipe in its’ entire form, so I made it exactly from the book

Saucy Meatball Grinders

First of all, since the meatballs were all ready done it was a simple and very fast meal.The meatballs were a nice size and they were pretty good. Not at all greasy and didn’t have that funny texture that some frozen meatballs do.

Still Frozen

The sandwiches were wonderful, and the entire meal, for 16 people by the way, was done in under 30 minutes. I loved it. Everyone loved these meatball sandwiches and thought the meatballs were good.

Saucy Meatball Grinders

• 14 oz pizza sauce (I used Newmans Own Sockarooni)
• 1/4 cup apple jelly
• 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
• 1/2 teaspoon salt (I omitted)
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 30 FarmRich frozen meatballs
• 6 hoagie rolls, split
• 1 cup grated mozzarella cheese

1. Combine all sauce ingredients in a pan. Warm up, stirring, until smooth and the sauce begins to simmer.
2. Carefully add meatballs.
3. Cover and simmer about 20 minutes, or until meatballs are heated through.
4. Preheat oven to 375F
5. Place 5 meatballs in each roll. Spoon sauce over and sprinkle on cheese.
6. Heat until the cheese is melted.

Serves 6

I tripled the recipe, obviously. Personally, I love homemade meatballs but I will keep a bag of these on hand for those times when I need an “instant” meal.

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