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Easy and Delicious Oven Baked Chicken Spinach Meatballs with Spiced Tomatoes Sauce

Aug-10-2017
Antara Navin
20 minutes
Prep Time
35 minutes
Cook Time
10 People
Serves
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ABOUT Easy and Delicious Oven Baked Chicken Spinach Meatballs with Spiced Tomatoes Sauce RECIPE

Soft, juicy, extra tasty Oven Baked Meatballs; these chicken spinach meatballs in sweet and spicy tomatoes sauce can be served with spaghetti or also be served in pizza as meatball pizza. This is the most amazing dinner party appetizers!!

Recipe Tags

  • Non-veg
  • Medium
  • Dinner Party
  • Fusion
  • Baking
  • Appetizers
  • Healthy

Ingredients Serving: 10

  1. For chicken spinach meatballs :
  2. ½ cups fresh spinach leaves finely shredded (moisture removed by pat drying the baby spinach with kitchen paper towel or any absorbent material before shredding)
  3. 3/4 cups minced chicken or any other meat
  4. 2 garlic cloves smashed and finely chopped
  5. 2 tbsp finely chopped mint leaves(optional)
  6. 2 tbsp finely chopped cilantro (also called coriander ) leaves
  7. 1-2 green chillies finely chopped
  8. 2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
  9. 2 tsp tandoori masala powder
  10. Salt as required
  11. 1 tsp olive oil
  12. 1/2 cups panko breadcrumbs
  13. 1/2 knob ginger finely chopped
  14. Cooking oil for greasing baking pan
  15. For meatball sauce :
  16. 1 cup heinz tomato ketchup
  17. 1/2 cup honey barbeque sauce
  18. 1 Cup water
  19. 1 knob ginger peeled,smashed and finely chopped or ground
  20. 8-10 garlic cloves smashed, peeled and finely chopped or ground
  21. 1/4 cup onion paste or grated onion
  22. 1.5 tablespoon tandoori masala powder
  23. 2 teaspoon kashmri mirch powder(also known as degi mirch; you can also use any red chilly powder for color)
  24. 1/2 teaspoon guntur red chilly powder( for spice; you can use cayenne or any other red chilly powder and adjust as per your spice preference)
  25. 1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder(optional)
  26. 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

Instructions

  1. For chicken spinach meatballs :
  2. Preheat oven to 180 C/ 355 F. Grease a flat smooth 9 X 13 inch baking tray or pan.
  3. Combine spinach, ground chicken, garlic,ginger, green chillies, mint, cilantro, parmesan cheese, tandoori masala powder, salt and olive oil in a medium size mixing bowl and mix well by hand until all ingredients are incorporated completely.
  4. Apply a little oil on your hands. Divide and roll the mixture into medium size smooth balls.
  5. Place the balls on the greased baking pan. The meatballs should be one inch apart from each other. Cover and put it in freezer for 8-10 minutes.
  6. Take out the meatballs from the freezer and remove the cover. Bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes till the pinkness is gone in the center and the chicken is cooked.
  7. For meatball sauce :
  8. Combine all the ingredients( listed in 'For meatball sauce') in a saucepan and simmer on low heat till the sauce thickens.
  9. Add the baked meatballs and simmer on low heat for 5 minutes or until the meatballs is coated with the sauce.
  10. Serve the meatballs hot with sauce and spaghetti or on pizza as meatball pizza.

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Geetanjali Khanna
Aug-10-2017
Geetanjali Khanna   Aug-10-2017

Would love to try it out!

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