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.
Servings 24 small meatballs
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.