BBQ Cocktail Meatballs

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5 from 1 vote

Whether you are tailgating or hosting a holiday party, you can never go wrong with some BBQ cocktail meatballs.

Prep Time10

Cook Time1

Course: Appetizer, Main Course, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: bbq cocktail meatballs, game day recipes, tailgating, meatballs recipe, grilling recipes, grilling with dad recipes, grillin with dad recipes.

Servings: People

Author: Maciek Zurawski

Ingredients

Frozen Meatballs

2 lbs Frozen Italian meatballs
2 tbsp Yellow mustard
2 tbsp BBQ seasoning

Homemade meatballs

1 lb 2/3 ground pork, 1/3 ground beef
1 Egg
1 Diced white onion
1/2 cup Chopped parsley
1/2 cup Breadcrumbs
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Pepper
1 tsp Tabasco Red Pepper Sauce

Homemade BBQ Sauce

1/4 cup Sparkling Ice Grape Raspberry
1/4 cup Brown sugar
1/4 cup Ketchup
2 tbsp Sriracha or hot sauce of choice
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp BBQ seasoning

Instructions

Frozen Meatball instructions

In a foil pan, add the frozen meatballs and cover them in yellow mustard for the binder followed by a generous coat of your BBQ rub of choice.

Homemade meatball instructions

In a large mixing bowl, add in the ground meat, salt, pepper, 1 raw egg, breadcrumbs, 1/2 diced white onion, chopped parsley and a few drops of Tabasco Original Red Sauce.
With your hands, mix all the ingredients together. Make sure to blend in all the loose ingredients massaging them into the meat.
Scoop up enough of the mixture and roll half a golf sized ball. Place the raw meatballs on a wire rack and let’s get the grill going.

Homemade BBQ sauce instructions

In a sauce pan add 1/4 cup each of SparklingIce Grape Raspberry, brown sugar, ketchup, Sriracha or your choice of hot sauce and Worcestershire sauce and BBQ seasoning.
Let the ingredients simmer over low heat for 10minutes.

Grill meatball instructions

Heat up the grill to 300 degrees and set it up for indirect heat.
Total grill time should be about 45 minutes to 1 hour or until the meatballs reach an internal temp of 145 degrees.
Pour the homemade BBQ sauce all over the grilled meatballs and set back on the grill for a few minutes allowing it to thicken and caramelize.

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