Prepare an Italian-style dish with this fun, simple, and flavorful Chicken Piccata Meatballs recipe. You’ve never tasted meatballs quite as zesty and good as these ones!
Chicken Piccata Meatballs Recipe
Try a different type of meatball with a zesty lemon sauce using this recipe for Chicken Piccata Meatballs. You can easily prepare the meatballs by mixing your ground chicken with several ingredients, such as Parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning. Once they’re baking in the oven, get your sauce ready that you’ll pour over your meatballs when they’ve finished baking.
These meatballs are easy to make and a great way to change things up. You will love the homemade sauce that goes over the meatballs and how quickly everything comes together.
Why You’ll Love this Chicken Piccata Meatballs Recipe:
- Change it up: It’s a creative and unique way to make meatballs using ground chicken.
- Quick and easy: The recipe doesn’t take long to complete, so you’ll have an incredible meal ready for the family in no time.
- Versatile main dish: The meatballs and flavorful sauce taste great with different sides, including pasta, roasted potatoes, and roasted veggies.
How to make Zesty Chicken Piccata Meatballs
Be sure to see the recipe card below for full ingredients & instructions!
- Set your oven to 350 degrees F.
- Add a sheet of parchment paper to a baking tray and spray it with cooking spray.
- Add all your dry ingredients to a mixing bowl, mix well.
- Toss your ground chicken into the mixture.
- Use your hands to mix everything together.
- Grab pieces of the meat with an ice cream scoop, place them on the baking tray, and then roll each piece into a ball.
- Cook for up to 20 minutes.
- Prepare the sauce for the meatballs by melting butter in a pan, adding the garlic to it, and cooking for a minute before putting some flour into the pan.
- Add the capers and brine before whisking in the broth, lemon juice, and white wine.
- Let it simmer for five minutes before adding the cream and stirring.
- Turn the heat off, add your meatballs, and use a spoon to pour more sauce on top of them.
What is Chicken Piccata?
Chicken Piccata is an Italian dish consisting of breaded, browned chicken prepared in a sauce made with lemon juice, broth, and capers.
The Chicken Piccata Meatballs contain similar ingredients and have that same incredible sauce added on top of them.
What is the sauce made from?
The sauce consists of melted butter with fresh garlic, flour, capers, white wine, lemon juice, and broth. These ingredients mix perfectly to create a slightly zesty and slightly savory sauce that goes great with the meatballs.
What are capers?
Capers are small, round flower buds that you can eat. They’re commonly used to enhance the flavor of different foods, including chicken and seafood.
Recipe Tips and Notes
- Use an ice cream scoop to scoop the meat into small servings that you can roll into balls.
- Spoon your sauce over the meatballs to give them even more flavor.
- Feel free to add more lemon juice if you want a more lemon-y flavor.
Chicken meatball recipes we love
- Greek Chicken Meatballs
- Chicken Parm Meatballs
- Butter Chicken Meatballs
- Curry Chicken Meatballs
- Chicken Swedish Meatballs
- Baked Hawaiian Chicken Meatballs
Chicken Piccata Meatballs have the perfect zesty, cheesy flavor to them. If you want to make unique meatballs to serve with a side of pasta and roasted vegetables, try this recipe.
More Italian chicken recipes we love
- Tuscan Stuffed Chicken
- Chicken Alfredo Stuffed Shells
- Baked Ziti With Chicken Parmesan
- Chicken Parmesan Stuffed Shells
- Instant Pot Chicken Piccata
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Chicken Piccata Meatballs Recipe
Ingredients
For the Meatballs:
- ½ cup parmesan cheese grated
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 Tablespoon garlic minced
- 1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 1 Tablespoon lemon zest
- 1 large egg slightly beaten
- ¾ cup panko bread crumbs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ½ teaspoon ground pepper
- 1 teaspoon chili flakes
- 1 ½ pounds ground chicken or turkey
For the Chicken Piccata Sauce:
- ¼ cup cold butter cubed
- 1 Tablespoon garlic minced
- 1 Tablespoon all purpose flour
- ½ cup chicken broth
- 1 cup heavy cream
- ¼ cup capers
- 2 Tablespoons caper brine
- ¼ cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
- ½ cup dry white wine
- 1 Tablespoon parsley chopped
Instructions
For the Meatballs:
- Preheat the oven to 350° and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Spray with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a large mixing bowl combine all the meatball ingredients, except the ground chicken. Mix well to combine.
- Add the ground chicken and stir just until combined.
- Using an ice cream scoop, scoop a large meatball and place on the parchment paper. Roll them into balls.
- Place the pan of meatballs into the oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
For the Sauce:
- Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the garlic and cook for one minute.
- Add the flour and brown slightly, then add the capers and brine.
- Whisk in the broth, white wine, and lemon juice.
- Simmer for 5 minute, then add the cream and stir. Turn off the heat.
- Add the meatballs and spoon the sauce over them.
- Sprinkle with parsley and serve.
Julie J says
Made this recipe tonight I really like it and my husband and son really liked it as well with my allergies I might have been a little overzealous with the garlic lol but hey, it’s good for you. Will put this with my saved recipes
Becky Hardin says
You can never be overzealous with garlic!!