Creamy French Chicken Meatballs
Delicious slow cooked chicken meatballs in a rich creamy French sauce
Equipment
- 5-6L slow cooker
Ingredients
Meatball Ingredients
- 1 kg Chicken mince
- 1 Egg
- 2/3 cup fine packaged breadcrumbs
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp Dried thyme
- 1 tsp onion powder,
- 1/2 tsp Garlic powder
- 1/2 cup shaved parmesan cheese
Sauce Ingredients
- 300 ml cooking cream (see note below for other creams)
- 1/2 cup liquid chicken stock
- 40 gram packet of french onion soup mix (no water added)
- 1/2 cup shaved parmesan cheese
- 1/2 tsp Cracked black pepper
Instructions
- Combine all the sauce ingredients and pour into slow cooker.
- Combine all the meatball ingredients into a large bowl and mix really well to combine.
- Roll 30 meatballs (approx. the size of golf balls) and place them gently into the sauce in the slow cooker. See Note 2 below.
- Cook on LOW for 3hrs 30mins with "Tea Towel Trick" in place.
- We served ours with creamy mashed potatoes and steamed vegetables.Alternatively they could be served with pasta and a side of garlic bread.
- NOTE: 1. Cooking cream is a cream that resists splitting when heated. More info on that HERE. If you do not have specific cooking cream then use regular cream but add 1-2 tsps of cornflour to it first to also prevent splitting.2. 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 with no risk of breaking them apart etc.
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Creamy and very tasty, doesn’t take long to prepare. The sauce was just beautiful & creamy. We had it with mashed spuds. Recommend this recipe.
thats not enough stars lol
made these tonight I added a sliced leek and a few beans . Towards end of cooking I added some asparagus
these were super tasty suckers served on mashed potato yummy
hahaha love this feedback!!! Thanks Ally 🙂
This was a lovely recipe. Easy as, I followed the instruction not to stir for two hours & the meatballs were nice & firm at just a tad over the 2 hour mark. The sauce was so yummy I could just eat that on its own. Served with creamy mash, steamed carrots & green beans. I also used the tea towel trick. Perfect !!!
Love to read feedback like this! Thanks Susan 🙂
YUMMMMM. I made this last night but added some minced bacon, minced shallots and a heaped teaspoon garlic to meatballs cos I was cleaning out fridge. So good!!! Will definitely be cooking this one again.
Hooray! So happy it was a hit in your house Robyn 🙂
omgosh this was so tasty and easy, I actually stopped the urge to stir until 2hrs, it worked a treat they didn’t break up at all. I can honestly say I have never used chicken mince before! winner winner chicken dinner!
Wonderful to hear! Thanks Kath 🙂