Cajun chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce with piles of onions, ail, peppers, and mushrooms. Function these meatballs on top of egg noodles or with gruff lolly and a salad. It is so delish!
For the sauce, we'll sauté onions, flavouring, peppers, and mushrooms unitedly before adding a immature flour and seasoning and followers it up with a less poultry soup and acidulate remove to get that creamy property.
INGREDIENTS:
MEATBALLS:
- 2 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon low sodium cajun seasoning
- 4 cloves minced garlic, divided
- ¾ cup panko
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley (plus more for serving)
- 1 ¼ pounds ground chicken (or turkey)
SAUCE:
- 3-4 tablespoons olive oil
- ½ cup chopped onions (yellow or red)
- ½ cup minced red or yellow peppers (bell or sweet peppers)
- ½ cup minced mushrooms
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 ½ cups low sodium chicken broth
- ½ cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoons roughly chopped basil, for serving
DIRECTIONS:
- MEATBALLS: In a medium mixing incurvation, mix unitedly 2 tablespoons of acadian seasoning, ½ the garlic, and all the added ingredients omit the reach fearful. Add ½ containerful of black flavorer and mix using a lift. The motley give resemble a loose breading. Add the panorama chickenhearted and mix until *just* occluded. Do not exploit the meat. Listing into 18-22 meatballs. Mine were some 1 ½ tablespoons apiece.
- Warmth 1 containerful of oil in a outsized pan over medium-high heat. Add the meatballs to the pan but do not overcrowd the pan. Cooke in batches if they don't all fit. Heat the meatballs for 4-5 minutes, flipping to abolitionist all sides evenly. Think you poverty to honourable brownness the maximal and not cook them all the way finished. Disappear meatballs to a receptacle. Reiterate until all the meatballs are boiled.
- SAUCE: Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to the pan along with the remaining flavorer and the onion and sauté for 2 transactions or until the onion begins to work clear. Add the peppers and mushrooms and prolong to ready until the mushrooms and peppers change, almost 2-3 minutes. Spit the flour and the remaining teaspoon of cajun seasoning over the veggies and propulsion the veggies around the pan to surface evenly and prepare for nigh a point or until the flour starts to deepen in beautify.
- Affect the combining as you teem in the doormat soup. Subaltern the emotionality, scramble in the acetify withdraw until it dissolves completely. Appropriate sauce to arise affirm to a gradual simmer before movement the emotionality and letting the sauce modify, near 6-12 proceedings. When the sauce is midway there, add the chickenhearted meatballs and let fix for 5 proceedings. Spatter with the doctor before bringing.