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Chicken Meatballs in Teriyaki Sauce

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You will love these soft and rich teriyaki chicken meatballs! It only takes 30 minutes to prepare them!

Preparation: 20 minutes

Cooked: 10 minutes

Main dish

Serving: 40 meatballs

The tofu makes the texture of the meatballs very fluffy and soft.
TIP! If the proportion of the tofu is exceeded, it can be a bit difficult to handle and maintain the round shape.

You can do without the teriyaki sauce! With the flavor of tofu and ginger they are also delicious!

Ingredients

  • 700 gr ground chicken
  • 300g semi -firm tofu
  • 100 gr of bell peppers (red, yellow or orange)
  • 1 chambray onion
  • 1 tsp grated ginger
  • 1 egg (50gr)
  • kosher / sea salt
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • vegetable oil

For the Teriyaki Sauce

  • 1 cda soy sauce
  • 1 cda sugar
  • 1 cda mirin Optional if you don’t have the ingredient
  • two tsp rice vinegar can be vinegar
  • ½ tsp potato starch / cornstarch

Preparation

  1. In a small bowl, mix the ingredients for the sauce and set aside.
  2. Wrap the tofu in a paper towel and let it drain for 15 minutes.
  3. Meanwhile, remove the seeds from the bell pepper with water and dry well.
  4. Chop the bell peppers, finely chop the cambray onion and grate the ginger.
  5. In large bowl, mix ground chicken, bell peppers, and spring onion. Cut the drained tofu into small pieces.
  6. Add the egg and mix everything together.
  7. Add the grated ginger, salt and black pepper and mix well.
  8. With two tablespoons, make small meatballs.
  9. Heat the oil in a pan over medium heat and put the meatballs, keeping a certain distance between each ball. Cook in several batches if necessary.
  10. When bottoms are nicely browned, turn meatballs over and cover skillet with lid until cooked through, about 3 minutes. Turn heat down to medium low if browning too quickly.
  11. When the meat is cooked through and if you cooked the meatballs in several batches, add them all back to the skillet
  12. Pour the sauce and let it boil until the sauce thickens. Flip the meatballs to coat both sides with the sauce and voila!