Yakitori Chicken Meatballs

My son loves meatballs and in order to get him to eat more meat plus enjoying his meals I really need to be creative when it comes to cooking for my little one. :)

I noticed that he loves satay as he feels so grown up holding the satay stick and so far, he has impressed me with the amount of satay he could eat at a go - 6 sticks!

After looking through my recipe collections, I've decided to make the Yakitori Chicken Meatballs on skewers! The yakitori sauce is a little sweet so that would certainly appeal to his taste plus I get to string in some vegetables too :P That sounds wonderful enough for me!

I did not make the Yakitori Sauce from scratch as I do not want to stock more stuff in my pantry. I used a store bought Yakitori Sauce and it was simply delicious! Too bad my helper threw away the bottle before I could snap a picture of it but no worries, I'll be getting another bottle soon and will update this blog with the picture.

This is really easy to make and we made pretty good size meat balls and yields 13 sticks.

Yakitori Chicken Meatballs

Yields 13 sticks
Using Happy Ocher Pan

Ingredients

400g Minced Chicken meat
1 small Green Capsicum; sliced
1 small Red Capsicum, sliced.
2 inch Ginger, grated to extract juice
Bamboo Skewkers (soaked in water for at least 6 hours)

Marinate for the Chicken

1 Egg (whisked)
½ cup Bread crumbs (I used Korean bread crumbs)
2 tsps Corn Flour
2 tsps Plain Flour

½ tsp Salt

1 Tbsp Light Soya Sauce
1 Tbsp Yakitori Sauce (store bought)
2 inches Ginger grated
Dash of Pepper

Methods

1. Marinate the chicken overnight or at least 4 hours
   
2. Use your hands to scrunch the meat, take it up and slap it onto the mixing bowl This will make the meatball really "Q".
   
3. Roll the meat mixture into small balls
   
4. Boil a saucepan of water and squeeze the ginger juice out of the grated ginger into the boiling water
   
5. Place the chicken meat balls in the boiling water for approximately 7mins or cook till the meat balls change colour and float to the surface.
   
6. Scoop it out and set it aside on kitchen paper towels.
   
7. Thread the chicken meat balls into the skewers; add capsicum slices in between the meat balls.
   
8. Brush the yakitori sauce onto the meat balls before placing it into the Happy Call Pan.
   
9. Pour about 4 tbsps of the yakitori sauce into the pan before placing the meat balls into the pan
   
10. Grill the meat balls for 4-5mins, on medium low heat (with lid closed) on one side before turning the meat balls to the other side and continue to grill for another 4-5mins.
    
11. Serve warm and drizzle with more yakitori sauce