One Pot Chicken Meatballs Recipe With Jasmine Rice is a ground chicken recipe with pineapple rice in a flavorful coconut sauce. An easy skillet dinner sure to be a family favorite.
Dinner will be on the table in less than an hour and with only one skillet to clean.
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Ground chicken combines with panko breadcrumbs, scallions and ginger adding fresh flavors to these mini meatballs.
Bell peppers and onions flavor this recipe along with a coconut sauce seasoned with fresh ginger and garlic.
Pineapple bits create a flavorful jasmine rice along with the ground chicken meatballs.
Round out this skillet dinner with a cucumber salad and you’ll be all set for dinner tonight.
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How to make chicken meatballs
- Combine the ground chicken, egg, panko, scallions, 1 Tablespoon ginger and kosher salt and form into 16 meatballs.
- Brown meatballs in skillet with oil and reserve.
- Cook bell peppers, onion, garlic and remaining 1 Tablespoon fresh ginger until tender crisp.
- Stir in coconut milk and chicken broth and bring to a boil.
- Return meatballs to the skillet, reduce heat and simmer until cooked through.
- Stir in uncooked rice and pineapple. Remove from heat, cover, and let stand until rice is tender, 5 minutes.
Top with cilantro and enjoy!
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- Substitute ground turkey for the ground chicken
- Add broccoli in place of the bell peppers
- Make with vegetable broth
- Serve with lime wedges
Substitutions
- Ground turkey or ground beef can be used instead of ground chicken
- Parsley is a good substitute for cilantro
- Vegetable broth can be substituted for chicken broth
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- Spaghetti and meatballs
- Meatballs Parmesan
- Meatball Soup
- Honey Garlic Meatballs from Restless Chipotle
Ingredients
Ingredients for chicken meatballs and rice:
- ground chicken – low fat ground meat
- egg – a binder for the meatballs
- plain panko breadcrumbs – gives texture to the meatballs
- scallions – mild onion flavor
- fresh ginger – a hint of sweetness and pepper notes
- kosher salt – brings out all the flavors
- olive oil – helps to brown the chicken meatballs
- red and/or orange bell peppers – add color and crunch
- onion – for savory notes
- garlic – adds depth of flavor
- coconut milk – the base for the sauce
- chicken broth – adds chicken notes to the sauce
- uncooked instant jasmine rice – fragrant and fluffy
- crushed pineapple - adds a hint of sweet flavor
- cilantro - for fresh herb flavor
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One Pot Chicken Meatballs Recipe With Jasmine Rice Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 pound ground chicken
- 1 egg
- ¾ cup plain panko breadcrumbs
- ¼ cup chopped scallions
- 2 Tablespoons minced fresh ginger , divided
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 2 red and/or orange bell peppers , seeded and thinly sliced, about 2 cups
- 1 onion sliced, 1 cup
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- 1 can (14 ounces) coconut milk
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 cup uncooked instant jasmine rice
- 1 can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple
- ¼ cup roughly chopped cilantro leaves
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Instructions
- Combine ground chicken, egg, panko, scallions, 1 Tablespoon ginger and kosher salt. Shape into 16 meatballs. If chicken mixture is sticky just shape using wet hands.
- Heat oil in large deep sided skillet over medium-high heat.
- Brown meatballs, turning occasionally; reserve.
- In same skillet cook bell peppers, onion, garlic and remaining 1 Tablespoon fresh ginger until vegetables are tender crisp, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in coconut milk and chicken broth and bring to a boil.
- Add reserved meatballs and reduce heat and simmer until meatballs are cooked through, about 15 minutes.
- Stir in uncooked rice and pineapple. Remove from heat, cover, and let stand until rice is tender, 5 minutes.
- Top with cilantro.
Notes
- Substitute ground turkey for the ground chicken
- Serve with lime wedges
This was a delicious dinner that the whole family loved. I will be making this again for sure!
Highly recommended! Thank you so much for sharing this amazing recipe! Will surely have this again! It's really easy to make and it tasted so delicious!
Jasmine rice is our family favorite, pairing it with chicken meatballs was AWESOME! The kids were in love with the meatballs, thank you!
This recipe is amazing and loaded with such delicious flavors, but I don't like to buy instant rice (it's more expensive). Do you have any suggestions for modifying this recipe to make it with regular jasmine rice?
This is the perfect recipe to mix up my weekly recipe rotation! That coconut sauce looks divine!
what a delicious recipe, I had never used coconut milk and meatballs together in a dish before, but I read the recipe and I love all the ingredients. Glad I tried it, I'll be making it again.
These meatballs are so delicious! I loved how easy they were to make!
The combination of flavors in this dish are on point. I love the sweetness from the pineapple juice and the aromatic ginger and garlic.
Wow! These chicken meatballs and rice turn out AMAZING! I definitely will be making again soon.
Thanks so much Katie. Happy cooking!
It really is a delicious combination of flavors!
It really makes a delicious flavor combination!
It is a perfect weeknight recipe because it's so easy to make on those busy days!
Hi Patti, unfortunately, the cooking time and amount of liquid added into the skillet are all for instant rice. Using regular jasmine rice would call for different measurements and cook time. At this point I have not developed the rice using regular jasmine rice.
I'm so happy to hear this! Thank you for sharing that with me. Happy cooking, GG
So happy to hear that your family enjoyed the recipe Colleen!