This slow cooker 4-ingredient Amish meatball noodles recipe is the kind of no-fuss weekend supper my mother has leaned on for years. It’s built on the same pantry-friendly, practical cooking you find in Amish and Mennonite communities: simple ingredients, long gentle cooking, and a focus on comfort over fuss. Frozen beef meatballs simmer all afternoon in a rich brown gravy, and toward the end you stir in wide ribbon noodles that soak up every bit of savory flavor. The result is a pot of glossy, tender noodles and juicy meatballs in a bubbling brown sauce, with almost no hands-on work.

Ingredients

2 pounds frozen fully cooked beef meatballs

2 (10.5-ounce) cans condensed beef gravy or brown gravy

2 cups beef broth

12 ounces uncooked wide egg noodles (ribbon-style)