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Asian Chicken Meatballs with Peanut Dipping Sauce

Perfect chicken meatball appetizers with a delicious curry peanut dipping sauce. The best bite-szie morsel at your next party guaranteed!

Course Appetizer
Keyword bite-size, chicken meatballs, curry, dipping sauce, peanut sauce
Servings 30 meatballs

INGREDIENTS

Meatballs

  • 1/2 cup carrots roughly chopped
  • 1/4 red onion chopped
  • 2 tbsps freeze dried cilantro
  • 2 tbsps freeze dried basil
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 lime juiced
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tsp ginger ground
  • 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1/4 tsp sea salt
  • 1/4 tsp black pepper
  • 1 lb ground chicken

Peanut Dipping Sauce

  • 1/2 cup natural peanut butter creamy
  • 6 tbsp or more coconut milk full fat
  • 1 tbsp rice vinegar
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 1/2 tsp red curry paste
  • 1/4 tsp ginger ground
  • 1/2 lime juiced
  • 1 clove garlic

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

  2. In a high powered blender, pulse all the meatball ingredients except for the chicken until everything is chopped fine or you can hand cut everything fine. Add chicken and mix well. 

  3. Shape into bite size meatballs and place on a cookie sheet. Bake for 18-20 minutes and then flip and bake for an additional 13-15 minutes.

  4. While the meatballs are cooking, whisk together the ingredients for the peanut dipping sauce.

  5. Serve alongside warm meatballs.

RECIPE NOTES

Meatball recipe adapted from the Bewitchin Kitchen.

Peanut Dipping Sauce recipe adapted from Cookie + Kate.