YOU can make chicken meatballs. It’s really easy! And they’re fun to make because you get to get a little messy.
Give them a try – they’re easier than you think to make, and they are absolutely splendid to eat! You can eat them on their own or serve them with rice or in your favorite pasta sauce. You could bring them to a potluck too – who doesn’t love a good meatball!?
Here’s what you need to make them:
- 1 pound of ground chicken
- 1/2 cup dry bread crumbs (or a really big handful of croutons)
- 1 egg
- Dry herbs of your liking – parsley, oregano, basil, garlic, anything savoury that you like
- Salt & pepper
- 1/4 cup cooking oil
- 1.4 cup white onion
Here’s how to make them:
1. If you don’t have dry bread crumbs but you have croutons or dry-toasted bread, use a food processor to shred that bread up into crumbs (not dust).
Croutons getting ready to meet their fate
Their fate
2. Put the ground chicken into a big mixing bowl.
Big mixing bowl with ground chicken
3. Add the bread crumbs to the ground chicken.
Bread crumbs added
4. Add a few good sprinkles of salt and pepper to the mix.
Salt and pepper added in
5. Add some of your favorite dried herbs – a couple of pinches of each one will be enough.
Some dried herbs added in
6. Dice up your white onion and add it to the mix.
Diced onion added in
7. Crack the egg into a small bowl and mix it up with a fork. Then add it to the meat mixture.
Egg added in
8. Put a large pan on the stove and put the heat on to medium. Pour some cooking oil in the pan, enough to very thinly cover the pan.
Oil in a pan
9. Wash your hands thoroughly, and then use your hands to mix the meat mixture up until it’s really well-mixed. Once it’s well-mixed, use your hands to shape little balls. Each ball should be about an inch around. Drop each ball into the cooking oil. Once you’re done, wash your hands again very thoroughly.
A bunch of balls in the pan
10. Cook the meatballs for about four minutes and then stir them around. You want to make sure each side of the meatball gets cooked, so stir them every four minutes and make sure each part of the meatball gets cooked.
Stirring them around
11. Once each side of each meatball looks cooked, pick out the very biggest meatball. Cut it in half. If it’s cooked all the way through (it should be all brown, you should not see ANY pink!), then you’re done!
Chicken Meatballs
These are great to freeze in case of emergency dinners!
Here’s what they cost to make (approx. 30 meatballs):
- Ground chicken: $5.00
- Bread crumbs: $0.50
- Egg: $0.25
- Dry herbs: $0.15
- Salt & pepper: $0.03
- Cooking oil: $0.25
- White onion: $0.25
Total cost to make: $6.43
Total cost per meatball: $0.21
If you need a meaty appetizer for a party, take these. This is a great-sized recipe for a potluck of 15 people or less. If you want to make these to freeze for meals in the future, you’ll thank yourself later!
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