Game Day Thai Chicken Meatballs Food

THAI CHICKEN MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together, except oil (and cucumber and chile sauces).
• Wet hands, and take one tbsp of mixture and form into meatball; repeat.
• Shallow-fry the meatball until they are brown and cooked through.
• Serve with Thai cucumber sauce (may use recipe#29196) and Thai red chile sauce (may use recipe#30195), or other dipping sauces of choice, if desired.

THAI CHICKEN MEATBALL CURRY (SLOW COOKER)

Steps:

• Mix chicken or turkey, breadcrumbs, half of the cilantro, lemongrass and chile peppers in a large bowl, combining thoroughly.
• If not frying, drop walnut-sized meatballs into a 4 qt slow cooker (I coat with a little oil to make cleanup easier). Cover and cook on High for about 1 hour to set the meatballs. (For all I know you don't need to do this - it might work just as well with the sauce added immediately - but this is how I did it).
• Combine the remaining ingredients except the cilantro in a small bowl; pour over the meatballs, reduce to Low and cook for 4 hours, or cook on High for 2 hours.
• If frying, form the meat into walnut-sized meatballs. Heat oil in a large skillet and quickly fry the meatballs until browned. Transfer to slow cooker.
• Make the sauce as in Step 3 and pour into the frying pan, stirring to scrape up the fond; pour over the meatballs and cook on Low for 6 hours or on High for 3 hours.
• Serve immediately with steamed rice, garnished with the remaining cilantro.

THAI CHICKEN BALLS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, mix together the chicken and bread crumbs. Season with green onion, ground coriander, cilantro, chili sauce and lemon juice; mix well.
• Using damp hands, form mixture into evenly shaped balls that are either small enough to eat with your fingers, or large enough to use as burgers.
• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Fry the chicken balls in batches until well browned all over.