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Thai-Style Chicken Meatballs

Here's how you make Thai-Style Chicken Meatballs
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  • Servings: 2
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 10m
  • The following recipe serves 2 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 350 grams sweet potato (small orange sweet potato, sliced into rounds)
  • 2 cups mixed greens (salad leaves)
  • 91 grams bean sprouts (1 cup)
  • 1 carrot, cut into short thin sticks
  • 80 grams green beans (trimmed and diagonally sliced)
  • 1 tablespoon sweet chilli sauce (or gluten-free sweet chilli sauce)
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice (or lime juice)
  • FOR MEATBALLS
  • 250 grams ground chicken breast (lean)
  • 2 teaspoons finely grated ginger root
  • 1 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1/2 red chilli (small chilli, seeded if desired and finely chopped)
  • 2 spring onions (trimmed and finely chopped)
  • 1 teaspoon fish sauce
  • 2 tablespoons coriander (finely chopped)
  • 35 grams fresh breadcrumbs (made from wholemeal grain bread or gluten-free breadcrumbs)
  • Olive oil cooking spray
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 180C (fan-forced).

  • Step 2: To make the meatballs, line a baking tray with baking paper.

  • Step 3: Combine the chicken mince, ginger, garlic, chilli, spring onion, fish sauce, coriander and breadcrumbs in a medium bowl.

  • Step 4: Shape mixture in t small balls, using 2 tablespoons of mixture, and place on the prepared tray.

  • Step 5: Spray meatballs with cooking spray and bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until just cooked through.

  • Step 6: Meanwhile, put the sweet potato in a medium microwave safe dish and add 60ml (1/4 cup) water and cover and cook on high/100% for 5 minutes or until just tender and then drain and set aside to cool slightly.

  • Step 7: Combine the salad leaves, bean sprouts, carrot and beans in a medium bowl and gently toss the cool sweet potato slices in to the salad.

  • Step 8: Combine the sweet chilli sauce and lemon or lime juice in a small jug.

  • Step 9: Serve the meatballs with the salad and drizzled with the chilli sauce.


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