My mother always tells me that we called them little balls, perhaps because she used the same trick as me to make us eat everything using names like the one with the rolled soles. The fact is that with these homemade chicken meatballs, so tender and so white you will not need to use any tricks to be eaten beautifully.
So that the recipe is a success, in its elaboration, unlike the classic meatballs for adults we have not used garlic and we have tried that neither the onion nor the own ones are browned meatballs so that they are very attractive for the kids in the house.
Ingredients for 12 meatballs
- 250 gr of chicken, 50 gr of bread dipped in milk, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon of breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoon of chopped parsley, flour, olive oil, 1 glass of chicken broth, 1/2 onion
How to make homemade chicken meatballs
We start mixing the ingredients to make the meatballs. With a fork we integrate the very minced chicken meat with the bread, the egg, the breadcrumbs and the parsley, until obtaining a homogeneous mass.
To form the meatballs, we put a spoonful of flour in a cup of coffee and put a ball of dough that stir until you get a perfect and floured meatball on the outside We repeat until we finish the dough.
Once we have all the "balls" formed, we fry them lightly without browning excessively, and as they are being placed in a saucepan where we will then make the sauce and finish our recipe. Take advantage and make many meatballs because can be frozen perfectly for other days.
To make the sauce, we chop the onion very finely, and the brown in the same pan where we fried the meatballs. Without being browned, we let it be done very slowly so that it has flavor and is not crispy but soft. We put the onion on the meatballs.
Add the chicken stock that is necessary until the meatballs are covered and let them simmer for about twenty minutes so that homemade chicken meatballs Be very tender.
If the children are small, we take the meatballs from the source and crush the sauce so that the onion is not noticeable, although if you have chopped it well, with cooking it will have virtually disappeared.
Processing time | 30 minutes Difficulty | Easy
Tasting
For children it will be enough with three or four homemade chicken meatballs, depending on your age. Bearing in mind that the sauce is very soft and they can dip some bread in it, you will not need more than a caldito or mash as an entree to have a full menu. One more way to give them chicken to eat, which you could also have prepared in advance, which It is always an advantage in summer.
