Chicken Meatballs in a Blue Cheese Cream Sauce

This recipes is a great one if you need an good hearty meal but don’t want to take a lot of time cooking.  That’s the one thing I love about meatballs. They are really easy to throw together and they make an easy home cooked meal any night of the week. They cook quickly and since you can use tin foil on the baking sheet they are relatively easy to clean up after the cooking is done.  The sauce for this recipe comes together really quickly as well. That’s the nice thing about this one because it seems like a fancy meal that took longer than it actually did. One serving suggestion I have for this recipe is to serve them over simple spaghetti noodles. Cooking the noodles actually takes more time that getting the sauce pulled together.

Chicken meatballs are a little different to work with than beef or pork meatballs. I’ve been making meatballs for years and trying to come up with different recipes for new and exciting meatballs. One thing I’ve played around with is the breadcrumb to meat ratio. There is always a temptation to add more breadcrumbs to chicken or turkey meatballs since the meat is so much leaner and stickier to work with. I have tested adding more breadcrumbs to the meat mixture for turkey and chicken meatballs and I never really liked the taste of them. They come out tasting too much like breadcrumbs and you lose the meat flavor. I know that having less breadcrumbs makes working with the meat mixture and rolling balls a little more difficult but I think the end result is totally worth it. You can always grease up your hands while rolling out these balls to make forming them go smoother. I use my handy cooking spray to coat my hands so the meatball mixture doesn’t stick. Also depending on the recipe I wash my hands in between rounds of meatball rolling. This helps depending on the recipe I’m working with. 

It’s always fun to play around in the kitchen making meatballs. It’s also such a fun dish to serve others of make your family for dinner. I love the all of the possibilities that exist in one simple food. You can take the same base recipe and make it something different for every night of the week by just changing up the ingredients that you put in the meat mixture. You can also change things up every night by just adding these simple meatballs to your favorite sauce.

I’ve been so inspired throughout my home cooking career by a good sauce. It can make or break a dish. I love learning new techniques and I love trying new things when it comes to making a sauce. Combining different flavors is another fun thing to play around with in the kitchen.

This particular sauce is a really simple but awesome sauce that you can use for so many things. You can change up the flavors of the meatball and still use this sauce. For even more blue cheese flavor can stuff the chicken meatballs with blue cheese – like I do for my Blue Cheese Stuffed Buffalo Chicken Meatballs.

I hope that you find some of my meatballs interesting and different and I hope that some of them become recipes that are a part of your regular meal rotation. I’ve always loved cooking and I’ve always found making food a great creative outlet. Some of my recipes are on the easy and simple side – like this one. Others are a little more time consuming and complex. I really enjoy coming up with recipes that could be your families next favorite or make you the rock star of a work potluck or a game day appetizer feast.

Meatballs are a fun and easy meal to make for lots of different occasions. I hope the recipes that I share are ones that inspire you to make and eat more meatballs in every day life.

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