Chicken, Sweetcorn and Carrot Balls

Name: Chicken, Sweetcorn and Carrot Balls
Yield: Makes 25 chicken balls
Ingredients: 1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce; 1 tbsp plain flour; 2 skinless chicken breasts (about 300 g/11 oz), diced; 75 g/3 oz carrot, grated; 40 g/1½ oz panko or dried breadcrumbs; ¾ chicken stock cube, crushed; salt and pepper; 2 tbsp sunflower oil; 1 tbsp chopped fresh thyme leaves; 2 tbsp tinned sweetcorn; ½ red onion, chopped

Preparation info

Makes
25
chicken balls

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Real Food Kids Will Love

By Annabel Karmel

Published 2018

About

Ever had a last-minute playdate to prep for? My chicken, sweetcorn and carrot balls will satisfy hungry tums in no time at all. Quick, easy and nutritious, they prove the perfect after-school snack.

Ingredients

2 skinless chicken breasts (about 300 g/11 oz), diced
½ red onion<

Snack

Method

Put the chicken breasts in a food processor and blitz until roughly chopped. Add the remaining ingredients (except the flour and oil), season lightly with salt and pepper and blitz together until everything is finely chopped.

Transfer the mixture to a bowl and shape it into 25 balls. Coat the balls in flour.

Heat the oil in a frying pan over a medium heat and fry the balls in ba