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Instant Pot Honey Garlic BBQ Meatballs

Name: Instant Pot Honey Garlic BBQ Meatballs
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 28 ounces meatballs (frozen); 1 cup water; 3/4 cup ketchup; 1/2 cup honey; 3 tablespoons soy sauce; 4 tablespoons minced garlic

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Instant Pot Honey Garlic BBQ Meatballs –Do you love honey garlic sauce? Then you are going to love these Instant Pot Honey Garlic BBQ Meatballs! They are so easy to make and are the perfect party appetizer. Your guests will be asking for the recipe!

These are amazing, and they only take 5 minutes in the Instant Pot. My kids love them, but they get bored with typical pasta sauce on them. So, I combined my husband’s two favorite things, BBQ Sauce, and Garlic. This is what I came up with. I always keep frozen meatballs on hand for a quick lunch or dinner. We have even had them for snacks.

You can usually score a great deal on frozen meatballs, at either Costco or your local grocery store. Just keep an eye out for sales. If you want, you can make a huge batch of homemade meatballs, and then just freeze them, and use them in this recipe.

Now, making meatballs in the Instant Pot requires very little. They all start off with a bag of frozen meatballs, if you want to use fresh that is amazing too, and it will work for this recipe, just use the sauce part of this recipe, and cook them the way you normally would could meatballs in the Instant Pot.

Now, the cooking time for this dish is 5 minutes, but you need to let the Instant Pot come to pressure and then let it naturally release.

How to Make Instant Pot Honey Garlic BBQ Meatballs

Place the frozen meatballs in the Instant Pot Bowl.

Add the water, place your lid on (per your pressure cooker’s instructions)

Make sure that the ent is in the “sealing” position.

Set it to manual high pressure for 5 minutes.

When the time is up, let it naturally release.

(Note: Before you try to open the Instant Pot or any pressure cooker, make sure that the pin is dropped,

and all of the pressure is out of the Instant Pot, NEVER force an Instant Pot Lid off)

Cooked meatballs, after naturally releasing them and draining. Pour in all of the sauce ingredients and mix well.

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