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Baked Mustard Chicken Meatballs

These Baked Mustard Chicken Meatballs feature lightly seared balls of ground chicken, rice and spices baked in a creamy mustard sauce. The recipe makes plenty of meatballs to satisfy your hungry family on busy weeknights.  

Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
1 hr 10 mins
Servings: 8
Calories: 224 kcal
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients

  • 1 lb ground chicken
  • ⅓ c rice
  • 4 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 medium onion finely minced
  • 1 medium carrot shredded
  • 1 teaspoon dry thyme
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ½ teaspoon garlic powder
  • ½ teaspoon pepper
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 3 tablespoon flour
  • 2 tablespoon parsley chopped
For the Mustard Sauce
  • 1 c chicken broth
  • 6 tablespoon sour cream
  • 2 tablespoon yellow mustard* See the notes
  • ½ teaspoon smoked paprika
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon pepper

Instructions

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  1. To a medium pot add uncooked rice along with 1 ½ cup of water and a pinch of salt. Bring to a boil, then reduce to simmer, cover the pot and cook for 15 minutes until water evaporates and rice is soft.
  2. Remove from the heat, then transfer the rice to a large bowl to cool.
  3. While rice is cooling down, heat 2 tablespoon of olive oil in large non-stick pan and over medium heat.
  4. Add onion and carrot and sauté stirring from time to time for 5-7 minutes or until onion is soft.
  5. Preheat the oven to 360 F.
  6. In a bowl with rice add ground chicken, sautéed onion and carrot, thyme, nutmeg, garlic powder, salt, pepper and egg. Mix everything nicely and form 36 meatballs.
  7. Add flour to a large shallow bowl and dredge meatballs in flour.
  8. Heat 2 tablespoon of oil in a large non-stick pan and sear the meatballs on both sides for 5 minutes.
  9. Transfer the meatballs in a large 2.5 qt greased baking dish.* (See the notes)
  10. In a small bowl whisk together all ingredients for the mustard sauce and pour it over the meatballs.
  11. Bake meatballs for 25 minutes. Remove from the oven, sprinkle with parsley and serve.

Notes

  • Mustard
  • You can use any mustard you have: Dijon or a combo of Dijon + Whole Grain Mustard will work here as well. I found that yellow mustard gives the sauce a brighter yellow color.
  • Baking Dish
  • My baking dish fit about 25 meatballs. I froze the rest of the meatballs for later. If you want to bake all meatballs at once, use 2 baking dishes.

Nutrition Information

Serving 4meatballs Calories 224kcal (11%) Carbohydrates 11.6g (4%) Protein 13g (26%) Fat 14.3g (22%) Saturated Fat 3.6g (18%) Cholesterol 73mg (24%) Sodium 676mg (28%) Potassium 423mg (12%) Fiber 1g (4%) Sugar 1.3g (3%) Calcium 31mg (3%) Iron 1mg (6%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 8Serving

Amount Per Serving

Calories 224

% Daily Value*

Serving 4meatballs
Calories 224kcal 11%
Carbohydrates 11.6g 4%
Protein 13g 26%
Fat 14.3g 22%
Saturated Fat 3.6g 18%
Cholesterol 73mg 24%
Sodium 676mg 28%
Potassium 423mg 9%
Fiber 1g 4%
Sugar 1.3g 3%
Calcium 31mg 3%
Iron 1mg 6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.