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Chicken & Rice Meatballs
These delicious meatballs make a great appetizer to serve ahead of your main course. Serve them for Thanksgiving, your Super Bowl party, you name it!
Ingredients:
- 1.25 lb ground chicken
- 1 cup leftover white rice
- 1 egg, beaten
- 2 tbsp finely chopped basil
- 2 tbsp dill
- 2 tbsp cilantro
- 2 tbsp scallion
- 2 tbsp minced fresh ginger
- 2 tbsp minced garlic
- 1/4 cup minced shallot or onion
- 1 bottle Nong's Sauce
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 2 tbsp high heat oil (canola or similar)
Directions:
- Cook ginger, garlic and shallot in 1 tsp of sesame oil over medium-high heat for 3 minutes.
- Combine all ingredients (minus the Nong's sauce, chicken stock, and oil) in a bowl and mix quickly and vigorously until just combined.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a heavy-bottomed, high-sided skillet or dutch oven, add oil so that it evenly coats the bottom surface and heat over medium high.
- Meanwhile remove meat mix from fridge and gently form into golfball sized meatballs (this step is easier if you use gloves).
- When oil starts to shimmer, add meatballs in even layer in the cooking vessel.
- Cook 3 minutes per side or until nicely browned.
- Add Nong's Sauce and chicken stock so that liquid covers 1/2 to 3/4 of the meatballs, making sure to leave the top of the meatballs uncovered by the sauce.
- Bring the liquid up to a heavy simmer, cook for 5 mins and then transfer the pan to the preheated oven.
- Cook for 10-15mins.
- Serve the meatballs with toothpicks/skewers and use some of the reserved cooking liquid for dipping.
![Raw meatballs before being cooked.](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0537/1674/6428/files/Nongs_Nov_2021-74_1024x1024.jpg?v=1637713949)
![Nong's sauce pictured with uncooked meatballs.](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0537/1674/6428/files/Nongs_Nov_2021-81_1024x1024.jpg?v=1637713990)
![Chef picking up raw meatball.](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0537/1674/6428/files/Nongs_Nov_2021-89_1024x1024.jpg?v=1637714024)
![Chef placing meatball in pan.](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0537/1674/6428/files/Nongs_Nov_2021-91_1024x1024.jpg?v=1637714057)
![Meatballs simmering in pan while chicken stock is added.](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0537/1674/6428/files/Nongs_Nov_2021-98_1024x1024.jpg?v=1637714089)
![Adding Nong's sauce to the pan of cooking meatballs.](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0537/1674/6428/files/Nongs_Nov_2021-102_1024x1024.jpg?v=1637714125)
![Meatballs cooking in Nong's sauce and chicken stock.](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0537/1674/6428/files/Nongs_Nov_2021-114_1024x1024.jpg?v=1637714159)
![Finished meatballs served on a plate with a bottle of Nong's sauce.](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0537/1674/6428/files/Nongs_Nov_2021-162_1024x1024.jpg?v=1637714191)