Especially delicious chicken meatballs

Especially delicious chicken meatballs.

These are especially delicious chicken meatballs!  The thing that makes them so delicious is… a secret ingredient.

Christopher yells, “Secret?!  Don’t you mean mistake?”

Hee hee hee, that man is such a card!  Alright, alright.  It was a mistake at first.  But that mistake turned into a delish MUST have.

So what was the mistake (stroke of genius, in my mind)?  Soy sauce.

Yup, soy sauce in my meatballs.  How the heck did that happen?  I wasn’t paying attention, reached for the Worcestershire sauce and grabbed the soy sauce instead.

I realized my mistake as I was pouring the contents of the tablespoon into the chicken mixture and gasped loudly.  I saw it all in slow motion.  Me pouring it and at the same time saying a long drawn out “Nooooooo!” in one of those low distorted voices they do so well on television.

Then, I thought, “How bad can it be?”  I still added a few shakes of the Worcestershire sauce and have continued to use both in my recipe ever since.

The rest is history.

On to the recipe:

Just what everyone wanted: a photo of raw ground chicken.  What could be better than that? Um, a photo of anything that isn’t raw flesh.  Yup, ah-huh, I’m with you on that one.  How about a photo of a lamp?  Oh, forget it.

So, you start with a big bowl and this pound of ground chicken.  I plop it into the bowl and gather the fixings to put in this dish.

Those fixings are oregano, basil, tarragon, garlic powder, onion powder, mustard, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, salt, an egg and bread crumbs.  Whew, say all that in one breath.  I dare ya!

I add all of the above in the bowl with the chicken.  I start out with 1/2 a cup of bread crumbs but I usually have to add more.  I guesstimate anything additional but all told, it probably ends up being 3/4 of a cup.

Next, my hands get all dirty mixing all the ingredients all together.  I take a dollop of chicken mixture in my hands and roll it between my palms.  The meatball ends up being around 1 and 1/2 inches in diameter.

I heat up my heavy sauté pan and put a few tablespoons of olive oil in it.

I place the meatballs in the heated pan and start frying them.

I stand there as they cook letting them brown up nicely.  I turn them periodically letting all the sides cook.

Every time I’ve cooked these meatballs, they have come out so moist, tender and delicious! And you can’t even tell that there is soy sauce in them, but it makes them extra tasty.

All done.

Now, all that is left is to plate them and serve them to my hungry hubby, who loves these meatballs, too!  For this meal we had a salad with our meatballs and dipped those little babies in pesto.

Yum, YUM!

I hope you enjoyed this recipe.  Feel free to pin any photo to Pinterest or Yum the recipe Yummly.

And as always, may all your dishes be delish!