Chicken Meatball Sliders

These meatballs are Mama’s traditional  recipe reconstruct to fit my lifestyle and taste, using ground chicken breast.

It’s a simple recipe that comes together in 30 minutes if you have the marinara on hand.

Like most of my recipes I make more than I need and freeze it for quick last minute lunches or dinners.

The marinara sauce freezes well,  I try to always have it on hand. I will share the marinara recipe on a later post.

A couple things to remember when mixing  the meat into the other ingredients don’t over mix or overcook, both lead to tough hard meatballs.

A case in point to the last sentence, a new prep cook was mixing the mixture in the dough mixer,  and explained why the meatballs were terrible.

There is no nice way to put it, they were not good. Mama would mot be happy with me using chicken, but she would understand, bad meatballs she wouldn’t.

When cooking don’t over cook, the meatballs are cooked twice first roasted then in the sauce.

Roasting the meatballs adds another depth of flavor and beautiful color color. I try to use my handy- dandy toaster oven whenever I can.

I don’t like turning on my oven every time I need to toast something, my toaster oven is one of my most used small kitchen appliances,

if you don’t have one they’re well worth the 100.00 dollars they cost.

This is another custom-able recipe, if you like the traditional use a high grade ground beef, or a mixture of chicken, beef, or veal.

Experiment,  food and cooking is mean’t to be fun and enjoyable, I have simplified and give you made ahead tips to make cooking a journey, not a destination

always learning, always finding new ingredients to satisfy our changing life style and diet…..Have Fun!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

1 Lbs. ground chicken breast

3 french slider rolls

1 cup shredded mozzarella

1 cup bread crumbs

1/2 cup chopped  Italian parsley

1/2 cup grated Parmesan

1 egg

2 Tbs. each chopped garlic and onion

Salt and pepper to taste( I used 1 Tbs. salt 1 Tsp pepper

4 cups marinara sauce

Sliced pepperoni and  onion

Instructions

Mix egg, bread crumbs, parsley,  garlic, onion, parmesan  salt and pepper ending with the meat

Shape into golf size balls Roast in a preheated 350 oven until light golden brown about 10 minutes

Cook an additional 20 minutes in simmering homemade marinara sauce ( recipe coming soon).

Fill french rolls with meatballs top with pepperoni, onion, cheese and marinara  toast in a 350 degree oven until bread id golden brown and cheese is melted.