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These Green Chili Chicken Meatballs do double duty as a healthy dinner served with steamed rice, a rainbow of crunchy vegetables and a sweet and spicy dipping sauce, then leftovers get tucked into lettuce cups for tomorrow's lunch box! #chicken #chickendinner #chickenmeatballs
Kate Ramos

Healthy Green Chili Chicken Meatballs

These Green Chili Chicken Meatballs do double duty as a healthy dinner served with steamed rice, a rainbow of crunchy vegetables and a sweet and spicy dipping sauce, the leftovers get tucked into lettuce cups for tomorrow's lunch box! 
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings: 6 servings
Cuisine: Mexican

Ingredients
  

Green Chili Chicken Meatballs
  • 1 cup Orange Tangerine 100% Juicy Juice
  • 1 small yellow onion chopped
  • 3 large tomatillos husks removed and chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1 jalapeño stemmed and chopped
  • 1 cup chopped cilantro
  • 2 pounds ground chicken
  • 1 large egg
  • 3/4 cup panko breadcrumbs
  • 2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 2 teaspoons ground cumin
  • baking spray
Tangerine Dipping Sauce
  • 1 cup Orange Tangerine 100% Juicy Juice
  • 1/4 cup light brown sugar
  • 1 cup distilled white vinegar
  • 2 jalapeños thinly sliced
  • 1 clove garlic thinly sliced
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Mango-Radish Salad
  • 1 large watermelon radish julienned
  • 1 ripe mango peeled, pitted, and julienned
  • 1 small Japanese cucumber julienned
  • 1 small red bell pepper cored, seeded, and julienned
  • 1 large carrot julienned
  • 10-12 small Butter lettuce or Romaine hearts for lettuce cups (optional)

Method
 

For the Green Chili Chicken Meatballs
  1. Heat oven to 425°F. 
  2. Bring Orange Tangerine Juicy Juice to a boil in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook until juice is reduced to 1/4 cup. Let cool. 
  3. Combine onion, tomatillo, garlic, jalapeño, and cilantro in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until finely chopped. 
  4. Place chicken, tomatillo mixture, egg, panko, salt, cumin, and cooled juice in a large bowl. Mix with your hands until combined. Mixture will be soft. 
  5. Spray a large baking sheet with baking spray. Scoop meatball mixture into 2-inch balls onto baking sheet. Roll with your hands to make round shapes. You don't need to space them out if you don't have a lot of room. You should have around 50 meatballs. 
  6. Bake meatballs in oven until firm and lightly browned on top, about 30 minutes. Serve immediately with steamed rice, Mango-Radish salad and Tangerine Dipping Sauce or in lettuce cups. 
For the Tangerine Dipping Sauce
  1. Combine Orange Tangerine Juicy Juice, brown sugar, vinegar, jalapeño, garlic, and salt in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, whisking to dissolve sugar and salt. Remove from heat and let cool. 
For the Mango-Radish Salad
  1. Combine mango and vegetables in a bowl. Toss with 2 tablespoons of the Tangerine Dipping Sauce
To Make Lunch Box Lettuce Cups
  1. Layer Mango-Radish salad into lettuce leaves and top with meatballs. Pace Tangerine Dipping Sauce on the side. 

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