Asian chicken balls

Simply Good Food (Lannice Snyman Publishers)
6 servings Prep: 10 mins, Cooking: 10 mins
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Never mind the kids, these make great cocktail food too.

By Food24 October 26 2010
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Ingredients (10)

400 g chicken mince
1/2 onion — medium, finely chopped
1 tsp fresh ginger — freshly grated
1 cloves garlic — cloves, crushed
1 cup courgettes — grated
1 Tbs fish sauce
1 Tbs fresh mint — finely chopped
1 Tbs fresh coriander — finely chopped
freshly ground black pepper
1 Tbs olive oil — or sesame oil
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Method:

Mix all ingredients
together, except the oil.

Shape into small balls.

Heat the oil in a
non-stick pan and fry the chicken balls for 8 to 10 minutes over medium heat
until firm and cooked through.

Drain on paper towel.

Serve as a snack with
tomato or sweet chilli sauce for dipping or as part of a balanced meal with
brown basmati rice and steamed vegetables.

Delicious things to add:

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Roll the raw chicken balls in sesame seeds before frying.

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Omit the Oriental flavours (ginger, chilli, fish sauce, coriander, mint) and
add some finely chopped fresh parsley. Pop the chicken balls into a homemade tomato
sauce (Best Basics, pg 132) and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C. Serve with
wholewheat pasta or rice for an Italian take.

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Flatten the chicken balls into burger patty shapes and serve on a wholewheat
seed roll with shredded cucumber, mashed avocado, pickled ginger and a little
smear of reduced fat mayo.

 Things you should know:

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Freeze the chicken balls in portions and defrost as you need them.

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Don’t crowd the pan or the chicken will boil rather than fry. Rather cook the
balls in batches.

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Reduce the fat content by baking the chicken balls in a preheated oven at 200°C
for 15 minutes or until cooked through.

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To reduce the salt content leave the fish sauce out of this recipe

 



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