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Baked Chicken Meatballs takes several minutes to prepare.

Baked Chicken Meatballs takes 20 minutes to cook.

Baked Chicken Meatballs makes 4 servings.

The ingredients for Baked Chicken Meatballs are:

3 slices Italian bread, torn into small bits (1 cup)
1/3 cup milk
3 ounces sliced pancetta, finely chopped (you can swap in Canadian Bacon if you can?t find pancetta)
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 small garlic clove, minced
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
1 large egg
1 pound ground chicken
2 tablespoons tomato paste, divided*
3 tablespoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley

Here is how you make Baked Chicken Meatballs:

Preheat oven to 400?F with a racks the upper thirds. Soak bread in milk in a small bowl until softened, about four minutes.Cook pancetta, onion, and garlic in one tablespoon oil with 1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper in a large skillet over medium heat until onion is softened, about 6 minutes. (Alternately, as in ?I thought of this after the fact?, I?d bet you could render the pancetta for a couple minutes and cook the onions and garlic in that fat, rather than olive oil.) Cool slightly.Squeeze bread to remove excess milk, then discard milk. Lightly beat egg in a large bowl, then combine with chicken, 1 tablespoon tomato paste, pancetta mixture, bread, and parsley. Form 12 meatballs and arrange in another 4-sided sheet pan (I used a 9?13 roasting dish).Stir together remaining tablespoons of tomato paste and oil and brush over meatballs (the paste/oil does not mix in any cohesive manner, but just smoosh it on and run with it) , then bake in upper third of oven until meatballs are just cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes (though mine took a good 5 minutes longer).Number of Servings: 4Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user ORACLES2.

The nutritional information for Baked Chicken Meatballs is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 4
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 232.7

• Total Fat: 14.8 g
• Cholesterol: 71.0 mg
• Sodium: 56.8 mg
• Total Carbs: 12.3 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1.0 g
• Protein: 12.8 g

Baked Chicken Meatballs is Italian cuisine.