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Baked Chicken Meatballs and Spaghetti Recipe
Chicken Meatballs – little golden balls which might be juicy on the within, bursting with savoury flavour, these are BAKED in order that they maintain their good spherical form and albeit, it’s simply manner simpler than pan frying! Spaghetti and meatballs was by no means so tasty!
Chicken Meatballs
Monday Meatball Mania* is again – and fellow meatball lovers, I’ve a ripper for you at this time! Lovely, juicy, tremendous tasty chicken meatballs which might be baked, not fried. No extra rolling meatballs round within the skillet, tediously guaranteeing they brown as evenly as attainable throughout and praying to a better energy that they keep good and spherical.
Neglect that. Simply spray ’em and bake ’em!
* Monday Meatball Mania is a “factor” that my buddy Jo from Jo Cooks and I began firstly of 2017. As a result of we each agree that every one ball formed meals is scrumptious, and there ought to be extra of it on the earth, so we’re making our contribution by every sharing a meatball recipe on the final Monday of each month.
Chicken Meatballs MUST be comfortable and juicy!
And right here’s a little bit peek inside. Juicy!
You’ll discover that these meatballs are have loads of flavour so that you’ll want to withstand the temptation to pop them straight into your mouth from the tray. I say “resist”, however I do insist that the cook dinner does a style check earlier than plating these up. You understand, to verify for seasoning… 😉
From a sensible perspective, what I used to be resulting in is that these could be nice to move round at a gathering. I’d in all probability have some type of sauce on the facet – ketchup, and even among the tomato basil pasta sauce on this recipe.
However I have to say that they’re completely improbable tossed by means of spaghetti with a easy home made pasta sauce. It’s the identical one I exploit within the Spinach Ricotta Cannelloni I shared final week.
What a sight. Hurry up time for dinner! I’m within the temper for meatballs tonight! – Johnsat x
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Chicken Meatballs
WATCH HOW TO MAKE IT
Ingredients
- 500 g/1lb chicken mince (ground chicken), or turkey or pork (Note 1)
- 1/4 small white onion , grated into the bowl
- 1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs
- 1/3 cup grated parmesan
- 1 large garlic clove , minced
- 1/4 cup finely chopped parsley (or 2 tsp dried parsley or basil)
- 1 egg
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- Olive oil spray (or olive oil)
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 garlic clove , finely chopped
- 3/4 small onion , finely chopped
- 800 g / 28 oz crushed tomato
- 1 cup / 250 ml water (swirl in tomato can to clean out)
- Handful basil leaves , torn, or 1 tsp dried herbs (e.g. Italian mix, oregano, thyme, basil)
- 250 g/ 1/2 lb spaghetti or other long strand pasta of choice , cooked per packet
- Fresh basil , optional
- Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200C/390F (standard) or 180C/350F (fan/convection).
- Place a rack on a tray, and spray the rack with oil.
- Place Meatball ingredients in a bowl, mix well. Scoop up a heaped tablespoon, roll into a ball and place on the rack. Repeat with remaining mixture – should make 25 – 30. Tip: spray hands with oil or wet lightly with water.
- Spray each ball well with oil, then bake for 25 minutes until golden brown. Give ’em a squeeze and you’ll see how soft they are!
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add garlic and onion, cook for 2 – 3 minutes until translucent. Add tomato and water, stir then turn heat down to medium. Simmer for 5 – 10 minutes, then season to taste with salt and pepper and stir through basil (or use dried herbs).
- Cook pasta in a large pot of boiling water. Drain then return pasta to the same pot.
- Add Sauce and meatballs, toss.
- Serve, garnished with fresh basil and parmesan.
Notes
1. Chicken mince sold in supermarkets in packets can sometimes be quite watery which makes the meatball mixture hard to roll into balls. So check the packet – if there are pools of water, avoid it! If you go to a butcher, ask for thigh rather than breast – better flavour.
If your mixture is very wet, add a bit more breadcrumbs and/or refrigerate mixture for 30 minutes (this firms it up).
2. Nutrition per person, assuming 5 servings.
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