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Chicken meatballs with miso rice

  • Hands-on time: 20 mins
  • Time to make: 1 hr
  • Serving: 4 people
Ratings: 4.8
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • Chicken meatballs
  • 400g boneless skinless chicken breasts
  • 2 tablespoons salt-reduced soy sauce
  • 2 teaspoons sesame oil
  • ¼ cup chopped fresh coriander
  • ½ cup fresh breadcrumbs
  • ⅓ cup sesame seeds
    • Miso rice
    • 1 ½ cups sushi rice
    • ½ teaspoon miso paste
    • 4 teaspoons salt-reduced soy sauce
    • ¼ cup fresh coriander
    • 4 spring onions, finely sliced
    • Salad
    • 300g pumpkin (1 ¾ cups), chopped in 2.5cm chunks
    • 2 mandarins
    • 4 large handfuls baby spinach
    • 1 ½ tablespoons lemon juice
    • 2 teaspoons liquid honey
    • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Preheat oven to 200°C. To make meatballs, place chicken in a food processor and pulse until finely chopped, taking care not to mix it to a paste. Mix soy sauce, sesame oil, coriander and breadcrumbs into chicken. Shape mix into small walnut-sized balls. Place sesame seeds on a flat plate and roll meatballs in seeds until lightly coated. Place balls in an ovenproof dish and bake for 15-20 minutes until cooked through.

    2 Arrange pumpkin in a single layer on a lined baking tray, season with salt and pepper and drizzle with a little olive oil. Roast for 20 minutes, turning at times, until pumpkin is just tender.

    3 While pumpkin and chicken balls are cooking, cook rice following packet directions.

    4 To make salad, segment mandarins and mix with roasted pumpkin and spinach. Combine lemon juice, honey and oil in a small bowl and drizzle over salad. Gently toss to combine.

    5 To make miso rice, mix miso, soy sauce, coriander and spring onions into cooked rice. Serve meatballs with miso rice and salad. Add a drizzle of sweet chilli sauce if you prefer.

    HFG tip

    NZ Nutrition Foundation schools competition: recipe from winner of ‘Table Challenge — Chicken’ category, Kizzie Amoore, Dana Herbison and Libby Harrison of Epsom Girls Grammar School.

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