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 brand
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.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.
- 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
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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 🙂