Versatile Chicken Meatball Recipe!

This recipe is dead simple! We don’t eat a lot of red meat, and I’m not a huge fan of ground turkey, so I was hoping to find some way to concoct an awesome meatball recipe.

After some trial and error (ok- it was one batch that was weird and dry), and tastings with various sauces, and here is the final tasty result!

Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground chicken (I use Foster Farms)
• 1 egg
• 1/2 small onion diced small
• 1 clove garlic, chopped small
• 1 1/4 cup panko breadcrumbs
• 1/2 teaspoon each salt and pepper
• 1 T. dried parsley
• 2 T. olive oil

Directions:

1. In a large mixing bowl, mix all of the ingredients, except the olive oil.
2. Once all of the ingredients are combines, shape the meat mixture into small balls. Place small balls on a plate or cookie sheet and place in the fridge or freezer for 20 minutes, until firm.
3. Once firm, fry in olive oil in batches until cooked through.
4. Meatballs can be topped with a favorite sauce and served right away, or store in the freezer in an airtight container for up to a month.

This recipe makes between 12-20 meatballs depending on how big (or small) you make the meatballs.

These meatballs are great with BBQ sauce, spaghetti sauce, even as Swedish meatballs!