Thai Chicken Meatballs in a Peanut Sauce
Absolutely beautiful Thai chicken meatballs in a creamy peanut sauce straight from the slow cooker!
Equipment
- 6L slow cooker
Ingredients
Meatball Recipe
- 500 gram Chicken mince
- 1/2 cup fine bread crumbs
- 1 tbsp minced ginger
- 1 tsp Minced garlic
- 1 tbsp Soy sauce
- 1 Egg
- 1/4 tsp each of pepper and salt
- 1 tbsp fine chopped coriander
- 1/2 large red chilli (seeds removed), FINE diced
- extra coriander and chilli reserved to garnish
Sauce Ingredients
- 400 ml coconut cream
- 1 tbsp cornflour mixed into the coconut cream
- 1/2 cup peanut butter (melt 30 secs in microwave to make runny)
- 1 tbsp Lime Juice
- 2 tbsp Soy sauce
- 1 tbsp Honey
- 1 tbsp red Thai chilli paste – I use Ayam
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine all meatballs ingredients and roll into approx. 30 balls.Lay these balls gently into slow cooker, slightly apart if possible.
- Combine all sauce ingredients and pour over meatballs
- Cook with Tea Towel Trick
- Cook on low for 4hrs (separating/stirring gently after 2hrs)
- We served ours on rice with steamed green beans and lots of the delish sauce spooned over + garnish
- No need to pre cook or brown meatballs. Slow cook them from raw. Just don't stir them at all for the first 2hrs. Once you put them in leave them be. Then after around 2hrs of cooking they'll be firm and sealed and you'll be able to gently stir/move them apart or around with no risk of breaking them etc.EXTRA MEATBALL TIPS HERE!
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tried this new recipe and was delish. The peanut sauce is yum and the spice. was just right for us. Definatly a favourite.. The chicken balls still together .
Could you double this recipe?
I don’t see why not Georgina 🙂
can you freeze this recipe for later?
I haven’t tried to do so to be certain but if you do let us know how it goes 🙂
O-M-G do yourself a favour and make this divine dish!
I made it and took into share with the girls at work. Compliments all round they were literally licking their 👌💯👅bowl 🥣 s..😮😝
I followed the recipe exactly!
I made approx 32 balls with 500g chicken mince!
Served with steamed rice 🍚
Hi Paulene,
Just want to double check, do you add sauce at the start ?
Love your page, been following for a long time
Hi Nadia 🙂
Yep as per step 2
I made this for lunch today. Delicious ! Definitely a make again and again recipe.
I used beef mince for the meatballs and kept all other ingredients the same.
Winner winner beef meatball dinner 👏
Spicy Peanut Goodness
37 chicken balls from 500g mince!
This was yummy. I loved the sauce.
My sauce was very gluggy and I even added extra coconut cream.
I followed the sauce recipe exactly, so I have no idea why mine ended up gluggy (but yummy).
The meatballs were delicious. Next time I’ll add a little white miso and see if that balances the flavour out a little bit more.
I also found I needed more breadcrumbs in the meatballs (not sure if that contributed to gluggy sauce) and I got 33 meatballs.
Definitely one to make again.
Extra breadcrumbs would certainly absorb extra liquids and that would change the liquid balance in the sauce Liz 🙂
Made this today, followed the recipe to a tee., but may have been a bit heavy handed with the chilli paste 😂 it was delicious 🤤
Definitely will be making this again.
Absolutely delicious. Freezes really well and reheats beautifully. Smells heavenly whilst it’s cooking.
Thanks Gayle – so pleased you love it too! 🙂
Very nice, the meatballs packed full of Thai flavour and moist.
The peanut sauce scrumptious with a good kick to it!
Love this feedback!
Thanks Kerry 🙂
Thai chicken meatballs in a peanut sauce – one of my faves now !!!
I doubled the ingredients because I was cooking for seven people (I had 2 slow cookers happening) !!
Served it with basmati rice and salad !!
I will be making this regularly because it was so flavoursome !!
That’s so great to hear – thanks Natasha for leaving your feedback 🙂
Second time making this recipe , I follow the instructions and don’t change the recipe and comes out perfect
Everyone loves it including the fussy husband 😁
Habby hubby, happy wife right Tanya? 🙂
I found this to be an easy tasty recipe. I substituted almond meal for the flour and spices for the Thai Paste (after reading the ingredients so I knew what to add). I had to add some water near the end but that could have been my slow cooker being hotter or my substitutions.
Very happy. I’ll make it again. Thank you for another good one., Paulene
Thanks for your great feedback Tracy 🙂
made this today
smells amazing and tastes just as good
my sauce turned out a little too thick, but i just added some coconut milk towards the end and it turned out amazing
served with jasmine rice and broccoli
delish
Great recipe, thank you
Hooray!! This makes me so happy to read 🙂 Thanks Vanessa x
Yum, yum, yum.
I made this with supermarket bought meatballs, the sauce is delicious. If I made it with supermarket meatballs again I would add a bit more red curry in the sauce as the meatballs didn’t have the extra flavour as if you made them as per recipe. Will definitely be making this again.
I love that suggestion to add a little to the balls too! I’ll try that one next time 🙂
I have made tbis one several times now. I have friends that have made it after tasting mine. Its brilliant.
I make the meatballs bite size so its budget friendly too!
I got 45 meatballs out of 500g chicken mince.
I make according to recipe apart from using a little less fresh chilli 🌶
Thanks for sharing the slow cooker love with your friends! 🙂