We had meatballs for tea.
Not ordinary meatballs, but child friendly crispy roast chicken ones.
This is the meat I picked off last nights leftover roast chicken. Doesn’t seem like much does it? But it’s about to make 27 tasty things.
I threw it into the Food Processor and George pressed the button to smoosh it up.
He likes that bit.
Then, bonus, in the freezer I had stashed some spare breadcrumbs and minced fried onion leftover from some previous culinary experiment.
So in went a couple of tablespoons of each of those.
Then we added an egg.
Here’s George ‘egg modelling’.
We bought these on the way back from school from a lady down the road who has put a sign outside her house offering ‘Free Range Eggs For Sale’.
Aren’t they pretty?
Once George pressed the button a few more times it looked like this:
Well the truth is it looked a bit drier than this so we added a 2nd egg until it looked nice and mouldable. This is the point that you should put the mix in the fridge to firm up for an hour or more. I didn’t, hence mine ended up not-so-spherical.
We added some salt, pepper and chicken seasoning too. Then I rolled them up into balls.
By this time George had got bored and wandered off.
I rolled it in some of my ready seasoned flour. How organised is that?
You could fry them at this stage but I decided to TAKE IT TO THE MAX.
Well, take-it-to-the-Panko to be more accurate.
I dipped them into beaten egg then in lovely crunchy panko bread crumbs.
Here they are frying in some hot Trex. Oil would do, but I do like a bit of Trex.
We had them with pasta n sauce for tea.
Good times.
Kavey
May 15, 2010
Am hungry just looking at those. I made some lovely chicken croquettes with leftover roast chicken, just the egg and flour (double coated) though, no panko. These look seriously good!
louise
May 15, 2010
wow yet another fantastic recipe – i want them now but I haven’t got time this morning but what a great thing to do with left over chicken – can you write a book please – just for me!!!
aforkfulofspaghetti
May 15, 2010
Ooooh, panko – everything tastes great with panko crumbs! (Well, that’s my line, and I’m sticking to it.)
So that’s one very tasty thing. Or things, ‘cos you made balls, plural. How about the other 26 tasty things? 😉
Sarah, Maison Cupcake
May 15, 2010
They look brilliant! Ted would love them.
thingswemake
May 15, 2010
Panko crumbs DO make everything better. I have to get my niece to bring them back from Liverpool though as they don’t sell them round here.
Louise – I am the queen of recipes for leftover chicken as I can’t bring myself to spend £6 on 2 chicken breasts when you can get a whole chicken for about the same. I might do a 100 ways with leftover chicken book lol!
These are great for kids. Normal meaty meatballs sometimes set G gagging if he gets a chewy bit. Nothing chewy in these and best of all they are great cold with chilli dipping sauce and a beer the next day.
Thomas
May 24, 2010
Interesting…Now I have a recipe for leftover roasted chicken!
Hazel
June 6, 2010
Such a great idea! I will be giving this a try very soon, but I know it’ll be delicious 🙂 Wonderful pictures!
elle
June 11, 2010
Wow! I would never have thought of this!!!!
Trendsetters
June 11, 2010
very nice n easy to make…lovely down to earth description too
Barb Haakinson Johnson
October 14, 2013
How long would I bake these instead of frying? Thanks!!
thingswemake.co.uk
October 14, 2013
I’ve not tried baking them, but I would imagine 20 minutes in a moderate oven would do it.
Jeaux
November 26, 2013
Brilliant. I make chicken meatballs all the time and I never thought to crust them with panko. well done!!!
Heather Pendrey
December 11, 2016
Hi just found you this recipe looks great what is panko please?
thingswemake.co.uk
December 11, 2016
Hi, they are super crunchy breadcrumbs that we buy in packets from the chinese supermarket. Normal breadcrumbs would do. 😊