Question: What to do with dried out meat balls

John Y Cannuck

John Y Cannuck

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These were cooked, and they were great tasting, but somehow dried out when we froze them. They are still edible, just a tad dry.
I need ideas on how to use them. Spagetti didn't work.

Maybe I should just take them to camp. Enough beer will make anything taste good.
 
It sounds like freezer burn to me. Next time put them in a vaccum sealed package.
I would take the meat balls and put them into a food processor and buzz them into a coarse meal. Then heat it up with some oil and onions. From there use it as you would any ground meat recipe. like.

Cajun Venison Rice

11/2 lbs. Ground venison
¼ tsp. cayenne pepper.
1 tsp. salt.
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 onion, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
2 cups beef broth
2 cups minute rice.
1 Tbs. oil

Add oil to pan and brown venison. Add onion, garlic, green pepper, celery, salt, and cayenne. Cook until onions are clear. Add the beef broth and bring to a boil, add the rice, stir, cover and remove from heat. Let sit covered for 15 minutes, then fluff the rice with a fork and Serve.
 
Hi JYC !

I would put them in the crock pot, frozen , add your favorite barbeque sauce and let cook in there for a few hours.. the sauce as well as the steam from the crock will plump them up. ;) Serve with rice or egg noodles.. Mmmmmm
 
mommabear said:
Hi JYC !

I would put them in the crock pot, frozen , add your favorite barbeque sauce and let cook in there for a few hours.. the sauce as well as the steam from the crock will plump them up. ;) Serve with rice or egg noodles.. Mmmmmm
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The Diana's sauces work really well for this also.... :D
 
I second mommabear's idea, or if you don't have a crock pot in the hunt camp:

Make a sauce of 50% Welch's grape jelly and 50% ketchup, over low heat, and add the meat balls to simmer for about thirty minutes.

The key is adding a fairly sweet and fairly thick liquid to allow the meat balls to regain their consistency. Having said that, I do not understand why they did not re-hydrate in the spaghetti sauce, they should have done so.

If the meat balls were seriously over-cooked before they were packaged, nothing is going to turn dried out shoe leather into something tasty.......

Doug
 
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