Chicken Parm Meatball Recipe

We all need those dinner recipes in our back pocket that are the difference between eating a home cooked meal and pressing “place order” on our go-to delivery app. These Chicken Parm Meatballs are ready from prep to finish in about 45 minutes, are easy whip up, and make enough to have leftovers or to share with friends! You’ll also learn that the special trick to never having dry chicken meatballs is adding a bit of water to the mixture!

Chicken Parm Meatballs. Source: Catherine Ramos

Here’s what you’ll need to make this dinner:

1 lb ground chicken
1 egg
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1/4 cup water
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese
1 and 1/2 cups shredded Mozzarella cheese
1 jar of good pasta sauce
Extra Parmesan cheese for sprinkling over the top

Let’s get cooking!

1. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
2. In a mixing bowl, combine the ground chicken, egg, breadcrumbs, water, Parmesan cheese, garlic powder, onion powder, thyme, salt, and pepper and mix well to combine.
3. Take your baking dish, and pour in the jar of pasta sauce. Then, take the ground chicken mixture and form them into meatballs, I was able to make 20 meatballs. Place all the meatballs into the pasta sauce baking dish. Bake for 30 minutes.
4. Once it’s done baking, carefully remove from the oven. Cover the top of the meatballs with the Mozzarella cheese and sprinkle some more Parmesan cheese overtop. Place under the broiler for 3 - 4 minutes until it’s browned and bubbly. Always watch food under the broiler very closely! Things can burn quickly. Serve with pasta or on bread for a chicken parm sub!

Cooking Tips

·      Adding the water to the ground chicken mixture makes sure the meatballs stay moist, but it also means the mix might be more wet than you’re used to. If you feel it’s too wet, add more breadcrumbs a little at a time until it’s easier for you to work with.

·      As you form the meatballs, it helps to keep your hands slightly wet with warm water, this prevents the mixture from sticking all over your hands!

·      When the meatballs are under the broiler, watch them closely! Things can burn very quickly under a broiler.

·      Use a high quality pasta sauce for this. It’s a main ingredient and you really need that flavors to be the best they can be.

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About the author
Catherine is a Marist graduate class of 2007. Her love of all things food goes beyond cooking and sharing recipes, it’s a passion to help others learn to cook meals that can make their day a bit better. Her blog, A Seasoned Greeting, started as a hobby and is now a growing business with recipes included on BuzzFeed and Parade.