Spicy Chicken Balls with Sesame Sauce

[neo_crone]

Serves 2-3 people

Chicken Balls:

1lb ground chicken
1/2 inch piece of ginger root
2 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp cumin seed
1/2 tsp black peppercorns
1 tsp coriander seeds
1 small chilli pepper (use more or less to your taste)
dash of salt
1 tsp dried egg white

Sauce:

2 tblsp plain yoghurt
1 tblsp toasted sesame oil
1/2 tblsp lime juice
1/2 tblsp peanut butter
1/2 tsp paprika
salt to taste

Chicken Balls: Grind the spices and salt together. Peel the garlic and ginger, de-seed the chilli, and finely chop them together. Put the minced chicken in a bowl and sprinkle the egg powder evenly over it, and mix it in. Do the same with the spices and other seasonings, and mix it all into the chicken very thoroughly. Form into balls (about 24) and chill for at least an hour in the fridge.
Fry the balls in a non-stick pan until browned all over and cooked right through.

Whisk the sauce ingredients together until blended.

To serve: Arrange the chicken balls on a bed of shredded romaine, with the sauce spooned over.

This is very good with a side dish of shiratake noodles.

[schelle]

thanks this sounds good! i bet i could freeze these then fry up the ones i need as needed! i am looking for EASY stuff!

[neo_crone]

They are very easy, and very yummy.
But if you plan to freeze them raw I'd be very careful to keep the chicken as cold as possible while mixing and forming them, and to do it as fast as you can.
It would be safer to prep and cook them off, then freeze them. Then you could mike them quickly to heat them up, which would be faster than frying them from frozen.

neo_crone

[schelle]

gottcha! =)