Skinny CrockPot Porcupine Meatballs | Weight Watchers Recipe (2024)

I've got an updated, blast from the past (my past anyway) recipe for you today: Healthy Slow Cooker Porcupine Meatballs.

Do you remember "porcupines" - ground beef, raw rice and seasonings formed into balls and then cooked in tomato sauce, or soup, in a skillet or baked in the oven?

My old Betty Crocker Cookbook (affiliate link) (1978) has a good recipe for this old-fashioned family-friendly favorite.

But the inspiration for these skinny slow cooker gluten-free porcupine meatballs came from another source: 4 Ingredients: More Than 400 Quick, Easy, and Delicious Recipes Using 4 or Fewer Ingredients (affiliate link), a basic little paperback of easy everyday recipes by a pair of Australian moms, that I discovered in a London bookshop a few years back.

Recipe Notes

The original 4-ingredient recipe called for just ground beef, cooked rice, egg and canned condensed tomato soup.

I added a little dried onion, garlic powder, salt and pepper to the mix.

And instead of plain condensed tomato soup, I opted for a can of Amy's Organic Chunky Tomato Bisque (affiliate link) which is slightly sweet, a little creamy, and full of fresh tomato flavor.

I carefully placed the uncooked meatballs in my 4-Quart oval slow cooker (affiliate link), poured the soup on top and let them cook on LOW for about 4-½ hours.

If you prefer, you could bake them in a 350F degree oven for about one hour instead.

Served with mashed potatoes and broccoli, these slow cooker porcupine meatballs received an enthusiastic thumbs up from both of us.

Which just goes to show dinner doesn't have to be complicated to be satisfying, especially when you like old-fashioned comfort food the way we do.

How Many Calories and WW Points in these Slow Cooker Meatballs?

According to my calculations, each generous serving has about 278 calories and

6 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
6 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
6 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
7 *PointsPlus (Old plan)

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If you like these old-fashioned slow cooker porcupine meatballs, be sure to check out my other easy healthy Weight Watchers friendly meatball recipes including Easy Slow Cooker French Onion Meatballs, Weight Watchers Spaghetti and Chicken Meatballs, Slow Cooker Hawaiian Meatballs, Slow Cooker Cranberry Meatballs, Easy Slow Cooker Sweet and Sour BBQ Meatballs and Instant Pot Italian Turkey Meatballs

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Source: inspired by 4 Ingredients: More Than 400 Quick, Easy, and Delicious Recipes Using 4 or Fewer Ingredients (affiliate link) by Kim McCosker and Rachael Bermingham

*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.

This video shows how easy it is to make your own crock pot porcupine meatballs at home:

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• Easy Slow Cooker French Onion Meatballs
• 5-Ingredient Low Calorie Lemon Pepper Meatballs
• Low Calorie Thai Green Curry Turkey Meatballs
• Turkey Meatball Stroganoff (SkinnyTaste)
• Light Italian Meatballs (LaaLoosh)
• Buffalo Chicken & Quinoa Meatballs (SlenderKitchen)
• Skinny Greek-Style Meatballs (SkinnyKitchen)
• Slow Cooker Cranberry Meatballs

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