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Chicken balls are a combination of chicken, eggs, bread, ginger-garlic paste, onion and a wide variety of ingredients and spices. These balls are boiled first and then fried to golden brown. The steps to make chicken balls at home are pretty simple, as you will find in my recipe.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

Chicken balls are wonderful snack item.

Enjoy them with sweet and sour dipping sauce, chili garlic sauce, soy sauce, refreshing cucumber salad, classic tomato ketchup, spicy tomato chutney.
Chicken balls taste juicy, aromatic, crispy, spicy, sweet and savory.
Try the similar preparations as cheese balls like mutton balls, paneer balls, prawn balls, vegetable balls, egg balls, and fish balls.

The Ingredients:

250 gm chicken
5 slices bread (edges removed, cut into four pieces)

1 piece egg
1 tsp garlic paste
½ tsp ginger paste

1/3 tsp black pepper powder
3 tbsp onions (finely chopped)
3 pieces green chilies (broken into half)

2 tbsp coriander leaves (finely chopped)
1/3 tsp salt
½ tsp chili flakes

1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp tomato sauce
Water – an adequate amount

1 tbsp refined oil

I discovered this recipe at a beach shack in Goa while watching the sun dip below the horizon. An old man was cooking it on an equally old charcoal chulha. Everything looked simple and ordinary, but the smell of the food was phenomenal—bold, fragrant, with a smoky twist I couldn’t imagine. We had a long conversation – time seemed to have stopped, so to speak.

He said just one thing that touched my heart: “Every taste begins with the right ingredients and the right feeling.” The first time I made it at home on gas stove, it turned out better than I had expected. Now whenever I make it, the soft evening sun, the silence of the sea and that one moment of his always come back to mind.

How to Make Chicken Balls? (Step by Step Guide with Images)

Step 1: Take 5 slices of white bread. Remove their edges. Cut them into four parts.

Step 2: Take 250 gm of chicken (preferably chicken breast) and slice it into small pieces. Take a mixer grinder and put the chicken pieces in it.

Step 3: Add the bread pieces. Break one egg in it.

Step 4: Now, add 1 tsp of garlic paste and ½ tsp of ginger paste to it.

Step 5: Follow it with 1/3 tsp of black pepper powder, 3 tbsp of finely chopped onions, and 3 pieces of fresh green chilies, broken into half.

Step 6: Then add 2 tbsp of finely chopped fresh coriander leaves, 1/3 tbsp of regular table salt, ½ tsp of red chili flakes, 1 tbsp of dark soya sauce, and 1 tbsp of tomato sauce to it.

Step 7: Blend it to a fine paste. Transfer it to a bowl.

Step 8: Heat an adequate amount of water in a frying pan. Take a fistful of chicken paste in your hand. Use a spoon to cut small balls while pressing the paste. Release them in water.