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Best Anytime Baked Chicken Meatballs

These Baked Chicken Meatballs are the BEST! The perfect addition to any meal or to eat right on their own. Bonus: theyre meal-prep friendly to stock up throughout the week!

So when I say anytime, I really do mean anytime.

Thats what I love about these baked chicken meatballs. They are SO EASY to make and they can sort of turn into anything.

Here Are Some Of Their Best Features

• They are BAKED.
• They are CHICKEN. (Turkeys good, too.)
• They use one bowl.
• There are no cutting boards involved.
• There is no splattery sauting.
• They are meal-prep friendly.
• Also freezer friendly.
• THEY GO WITH ANYTHING, anytime.

Im not a meatball lover, but I LOVE THESE MEATBALLS.

These baked chicken meatball bites can go with spaghetti and meatballs, baked rigatoni, or any pasta for that matter. They can be served with mashed cauliflower and green beans (my current favorite), or saved for quick and healthy lunch meal prep with roasted veggies. Half of the batch can be tossed with buffalo sauce and half can be frozen for next weeks Swedish meatball dinner.

I dont memorize many recipes I have the magic green sauce, soft chocolate chip cookies, and wild rice soup burned into my brain, but thats about it. THAT BEING SAID, this baked chicken meatball recipe is absolutely a memorize-the-general-concept-and-make-it-anytime type of situation.

See? Anytime. I told you I was serious about that part.

How To Make These Chicken Meatballs

K, the recipe is such a breeze. Are you ready?

First, your ingredients. Just pile em in a bowl. All you really need to remember is panko, parm, egg, and chicken. The spices are pretty flexible.

Now OBVIOUSLY WASH YOUR HANDS and take off your rings and all that. And then dive in.

Mix, roll, roll, roll. And bake.

Put your feet up, relax for a minute, smell the deliciousness coming from the oven.

And then youre done!

One of my favorite things about these is that even with being baked, they get a really nice browned exterior. You can always throw them in a saute pan if you feel like they need a little extra browning, but I will legit eat these straight off the baking sheet. Browned to perfection, if you ask me.

Okay, so what are you going to make with these? Because these are the little baked chicken meatballs that could! Me? Ill eat them straight off the pan or maybe in this Chicken Meatballs with Peppers and Orzo orrrrrrrr in this Garlic Herb Spaghetti. YUM.

They can be anything they set their minds to. An-y-thing!

Baked Chicken Meatballs: FAQs

Yes! I really love making this with ground chicken OR ground turkey. If I use ground turkey, I like the dark meat ground turkey that they sell at Whole Foods.

I prefer chunk-less meatballs when it comes to onion and garlic which is why I prefer to use powder. But if you like to have the chunks, I think you could use finely minced fresh garlic and onion with good results!

The sauce pictured here is a store-bought vodka sauce from DeLallo! Its delicious. This romesco sauce would also be AMAZING!

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Description

These Baked Chicken Meatballs are the BEST! The perfect addition to any meal or to eat right on their own. Bonus: theyre meal-prep friendly to stock up throughout the week!

1. Prep: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil and a little cooking spray.
2. Mix: Mix all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
3. Roll: Roll the mixture into about 30 small balls. Place on baking sheet.
4. Bake: Bake for 25-30 minutes.
5. ENJOY!

Notes

For mixing, I usually wash my hands, take my rings off, and mix it all up with my hands.

Freezer Meal Version

1. Mix, roll, and freeze:1 pound ground chicken or turkey1 egg1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs1/2 cup grated Parmesan2 tablespoons olive oil1/2 teaspoon garlic powder1/2 teaspoon onion powder1/2 teaspoon saltblack pepper to taste*Note: you can also bake them first at 400 degrees for 20 minutes and then freeze them fully cooked
2. Bake from raw/frozen: 400 degrees for 30 minutes
3. Final Step: Serve with literally anything personal fave includes some kind of pasta, red sauce, and a salad.
4. Check out our full freezer meal posts with all recipes and instructions here!

• Prep Time: 10 minutes
• Cook Time: 20 minutes
• Category: Dinner
• Method: Bake
• Cuisine: American

Keywords: baked chicken meatballs, chicken meatballs, meal prep meatballs

This recipe is included in our ultimate freezer meal guide below.

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Italian Baked Chicken Meatballs

Our Chicken Meatball Recipe, Two Ways.

There are a couple of different ways to use this Italian baked chicken meatball recipe, so its extra helpful to read the entire recipe before you begin and decide which way suits your immediate meatball need! You can treat it as a meal-prep recipe for make-ahead meatballs to freeze for later (or to giftthese are perfect for a meal train!) OR follow the recipe in its entirety to make spaghetti and meatballs for eating RIGHT THIS MINUTE. Each way has its merits. Try one way tonight and save one for next week, or split the difference and make a double batch nowhalf to cook and eat now, and half to freeze for later.

Version #1: Make-Ahead Chicken Meatballs:

Whether youre stocking your own freezer, or helping a friend stock theirs, our baked meatball recipe is perfectly suited for making-ahead! Healthy, easy and really versatile, these herby, Italian chicken meatballs will make a moist, comforting meal anytime. How to freeze meatballs:

• Combine the ground chicken with the eggs, breadcrumbs, herbs and parmesan.
• Gently mix with your hands until just combined, taking care not to over-mix lest the meatballs become tough.
• Form your meatballsthis recipe makes 20 meatballs, as writtenand line them up on a baking sheet.
• Freeze the uncooked meatballs on the baking sheet. Once theyre frozen through, you can move them to a zipper-top baglabeled with date, if youre cool like thatfor easier storage.
• If youre gifting these to someone as part of a meal train, or just because youre a nice person, include these instructions: To cook: preheat oven to 500F. Lightly coat a rimmed baking sheet with oil. Transfer frozen meatballs to prepared sheet and roast, turning once halfway through, until lightly browned and cooked through, about 12 minutes.