chicken + vegie balls with rice
 
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Recipe type: gluten free, dinners
Serves: 4-6
What you'll need
  • ½ onion
  • 500g chicken mince (or whatever mince)
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 zucchini
  • 60g gluten free flour (or plain flour if not gluten free)
  • 2 Tbsp vegie/chicken stock
  • fresh ginger
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 litre water
  • 4 Tbsp tamari (or soy sauce if not gluten/wheat intolerant)
  • 1 Tbsp mirin or chinese cooking wine
  • 300g basmati rice (or your favourite rice)
Instructions
  1. Place onion half and a small piece of ginger (about size of 20c piece and 1 cm thick) in thermomix bowl and chop for 4 -5 seconds on speed 7. Scrape down sides of bowl
  2. Add in carrot in pieces and zucchini and process for about 5 seconds on speed 7-8
  3. Add in chicken mince, a tablespoon of vegie or chicken stock, flour and combine on speed 3 for 10 seconds or until combined but don't overdo it.
  4. Tip out mixture onto a plate and check it's all mixed through properly
  5. Take a spoon or use wet hands to make small balls and place in varoma. Leave some gaps for the steam to come through and use both layers. Set aside
  6. Fill your rice basket ⅓ full of rice. Rinse under cold water until clear and set aside.
  7. Place peeled garlic cloves and a piece of ginger about the same size as before into the thermomix bowl and process for a few seconds on speed 7 or 8.
  8. Add in 1 litre of tap water, tamari, mirin and stock.
  9. Place rice basket in your bowl, lid on thermomix and without the measuring cup on top you are going to place the varoma on top of your bowl.
  10. Now cook your dinner - 20 minutes, varoma temperature and speed 3 or 4.
  11. Check that your meatballs are cooked and please BE CAREFUL when you lift off the varoma lid as the steam is hot and you want to lift the lid off with both hands and set aside.
  12. Remove rice basket and keep the liquid in the bowl and add a dash more tamari and this has become your sauce.
  13. Serve up rice, with some meatballs on top and pour over the reserved liquid over each serving.
Recipe by Retro Mummy at https://retromummy.com/2014/11/14/chicken-vegie-balls-with-rice/