Vietnamese Chicken Meatballs
These Vietnamese Chicken Meatballs are so flavourful! Make them to add to salad rolls, lettuce wraps or summer roll salad dinner bowls. Or serve over rice.
If you’re looking for something delicious and flavourful for dinner (or an appetizer), these Vietnamese Chicken Meatballs are fantastic!
About this recipe:
These tasty little bites are filled with flavours of fresh ginger, cilantro, lemon zest and garlic. SO GOOD. This recipe makes a batch of 24 small meatballs which will feed 4 – 5 comfortably. If you want to feed a crowd, make sure to double the recipe.
They’re perfect for Salad Roll Bowls!
I always make these Vietnamese Chicken Meatballs for my Summer Roll Salad Bowls. They add the MOST delicious flavour to this dinner. You NEED to try these bowls…they’re so so so so good. But here are more serving ideas for these meatballs:
- Serve them as an appetizer with peanut sauce for dipping (you can find that recipe in my Summer Roll Salad recipe post).
- Add to lettuce wraps.
- Make them a main course and serve over rice with steamed broccoli.
- Roll into salad rolls.
- Make Bahn Mi meatball sub sandwiches.
- Add to Vietnamese Chicken Rice Noodle Soup.
Vietnamese Chicken Meatballs Recipe Tips:
- Ground Meat: This recipe calls for ground chicken but you could also use ground turkey or pork.
- Onion: This recipe calls for green onion, but feel free to substitute with minced shallots or yellow or red onion.
- Rolling the mixture into meatballs: The mixture can be very sticky so if you can’t roll it it use two spoons two drop a dollop (about 1 inch in size) onto a prepared baking sheet.
Vietnamese Chicken Meatballs
These Vietnamese Chicken Meatballs are so flavourful! Make them to add to salad rolls, lettuce wraps or summer roll salad dinner bowls. Or serve over rice.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 24 small meatballs 1x
- Category: Chicken
- Method: Oven
Ingredients
- 2 lb ground chicken or turkey
- 4 tsp cornstarch
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 4 green onions, finely chopped (or 1 tbsp finely chopped shallots)
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp grated lemon zest
- 1 tbsp minced fresh ginger root
- 4 tbsp soy sauce
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
- In a large bowl mix together the ground chicken, cilantro, onions, garlic, zest, cornstarch, ginger root and soy sauce.
- Prepare a baking sheet by brushing it with oil or lining it with a sheet of parchment paper.
- Roll the chicken mixture into 1 inch meatballs. The mixture can be very sticky so if you can’t roll it it use two spoons two drop a dollop (about 1 inch in size) onto a baking sheet.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, turning once about half way through.
Keywords: Vietnamese meatballs, Vietnamese chicken meatballs, Vietnamese chicken bites
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Have a delicious day!
Note: This recipe was originally published in 2011. I have since updated this post with new images and recipe tips!
So glad I did a doubletake and read your post title again. The first time I read it, I thought it said “Vietnamese CHILDREN Bites!”
=O Ewwwww!
The recipe looks really yummy!
Star Hughes Living wrote:
Wow, my family would be so impressed with me if I managed to make summer rolls! I can’t wait to try! These pictures look delish!
This looks so good; I think my family would really like it. Thanks for sharing!
Found you over at Full Plate Thursday…I’m a new follower! This looks great! I would love to have you link up to my 2-in-1 Thursday hop.
Wendy
Around My Family Table
Oh my goodness! This looks AMAZING! We found your blog through a link party. We are your newest followers and would love for you to follow us back!
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Hi Jo Anna,
Your photo’s are beautiful! What a wonderful meal, could you just deliver that to me. It would make me so happy! Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday, have a great week end and come back soon!
Miz Helen
I love Vietnamese Spring Rolls! These look delicious and refreshing! Thank you for sharing.
Amy
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MMmmm… this sounds good! Thanks for sharing and linking up to this week’s Catch a Glimpse party.
Love summer rolls, those look so great and easy! Thanks for linking to Fat Camp Friday, see you next week! http://bit.ly/jHOrlN
Oh, oh, oh! I’m so happy I ran across your post! Just yesterday I was wondering what to make for our monthly “Scrabble” get-together and now I know! I’ve made egg rolls and won tons before so I’m fairly sure I can do the spring rolls…and they aren’t FRIED! Nice for our diets. Thanks so much for sharing this. I’ll have to thank your mom, too!