Slow Cooker French Onion Meatballs

5 from 1 vote

Slow Cooker French Onion Meatballs are melt in your mouth delicious. Juicy beef mince, melty cheese and mushrooms paired with creamy mash.

Prep Time20

Cook Time4

Total Time4 20

Course: Dinner

Cuisine: Western

Keyword: slow cooker french onion meatballs

Servings:

Calories: 635kcal

Meatballs: add the beef mince, panko breadcrumbs, egg, garlic, onion powder, dried thyme, salt and pepper to a large mixing bowl. Then use clean hands to consistently combine. Use a mini cookie scoop to portion the mixture onto a clean, dry chopping board. Then use your hands to roll each portion into a round meatball.
Sauce and onions: liberally grease the slow cooker insert with cooking spray. Then spread the onions out across the base. Next pour in the chicken stock. Then place the meatballs on top of the onions. Pour in the Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar, dried thyme and butter.
Cook: put the lid on the slow cooker and set the timer and temperature to either 4 hours on high or 7 hours on low. Let the dish cook. For high temperature remove the lid at the 3 ½ hour mark, for low temperature do this at the 7 hour mark. Lay the cheese pieces over the meatballs and then sprinkle the mushrooms over the top. Put the lid back on and cook for a further 30 minutes (high heat) or `1 hour (low heat).
To serve: once the final cook time is up remove the lid and garnish the dish with freshly chopped parsley. Portion onto plates with creamy mashed potato and serve with cracked pepper.

Note 1 - Onions: the recipe calls for 4 medium onions. They soften during the slow cooking process and are a beautiful compliment to the juicy meatballs. If you want to you can reduce the onions to 2 and add a cup of frozen peas when adding the cheese and mushrooms.
Note 2 - Mushrooms: I like to use Swiss brown mushrooms. Their taste and color are a great choice for the recipe. I haven't made the recipe using white button mushrooms as I feel they have less flavor.
Note 3 - Butter: as we add salt to the mushrooms for seasoning we want to be mindful of not adding additional salt to the recipe. For this recipe unsalted butter is recommended.