10 Minute Air Fryer Ground Chicken Meatballs – Gluten Free

Name: 10 Minute Air Fryer Ground Chicken Meatballs
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 7 min
Total time: 12 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 pound ground chicken; 1 large egg – lightly whisked; 1/4 cup breadcrumbs – I used gluten free; 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese; 1 tablespoon olive oil; 1 tablespoon dried parsley; 2 teaspoons garlic powder; 1 teaspoon onion powder; 1 teaspoon kosher salt; 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

October 19, 2021 by Amy Estes 2 Comments

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These Ground Chicken Meatballs are super juicy, packed with flavor and they go perfectly with everything. They cook in 7 minutes and come out wonderfully crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Great for an easy weeknight meal and they are gluten free!

Round cream coloured dish filled with sliced zucchini topped with ground chicken meatballs slathered with red sauce with a spoon in the bowl and a glass jar of green herbs behind it.

Ground Chicken Meatballs are a wonderful simple and easy recipe you can make in minutes and enjoy all week long as a meal or a healthy snack. They only require a few simple ingredients like ground chicken, garlic, onion, parsley, egg and breadcrumbs and you can make them in about 7-10 minutes.

They are just as delicious as these Air Fryer Turkey Meatballs that are also so quick and easy to make.

Cooked chicken meatballs over sautéed sliced zucchini with a spoon in the dish on a white counter.

Why you will love this meatball recipe

You can make it in 10 minutes.
It is made with real, whole ingredients that you probably have all the time
Perfect meal prep recipe
These meatballs literally goes with everything and they make a healthy and delicious meal
Super juicy and crispy meatballs everyone will love!
They are gluten free!

What is ground chicken?

Ground chicken is just raw chicken breast that is ground up in a meat grinder so it can be used for making chicken burgers, meatballs like in this recipe or it can be added to soups and chilis.

You can actually make your own ground chicken by placing raw, chopped up chicken breast into a food processor and pulsing it a few times to grind it up or you can buy it at almost any grocery store.

Ingredients needed to make ground chicken meatballs

How to make ground chicken meatballs in the air fryer

Add all meatball ingredients to a large mixing bowl and mix well with your hands.
Roll the meatball mixture into 1 tablespoon size balls and place them onto a lined baking sheet or clean plate.
Preheat the air fryer to 400 degrees F. Place a liner inside the air fryer basket for easier clean up and spray the liner with cooking spray if using a parchment liner. Place the meatballs in a single layer into the air fryer basket.
Close the basket and cook the meatballs at 400 degrees F for 7-9 minutes. Continue cooking until you have cooked all of the meatballs. This recipe makes 12-15 meatballs.
Remove the meatballs from the air fryer and let them cool, serve warm with your favorite sauce if desired.

Get full list of ingredients and recipe instructions in the recipe card below.

This is a healthy meatballs recipe that your kids, husband, sister, mother, father, everyone you know is going to love and ask you for all the time.

My favorite part about this recipe besides the fact that it is so crazy delicious is that it’s really, really easy to make that even an 8 year old could make it. Trust me, I have an 8 year old and I just started teaching him to use the air fryer and it is a game changer for sure.

Variations

You can use ground chicken or ground turkey in this recipe
Use any spice blend you like. I used garlic powder, onion powder and dried parsley.
Make these meatballs dairy free by using vegan parmesan cheese or you can leave it out all together and add in about 2 extra tablespoons of breadcrumbs.
You can use any type of breadcrumbs in this recipe. I used Italian seasoned gluten free breadcrumbs.

Serving Suggestions

These chicken meatballs are so great paired with so many things. Here are a few of my favorite recipes to pair with these meatballs.

Enjoy them with some Oven Roasted Broccoli or some Sautéed Spinach With Garlic.
Serve them over some Butternut Squash Noodles for a yummy low carb meal.
Pile them on top of some Mashed Butternut Squash or Mashed Sweet Potatoes.
For an even healthier complete meal, serve them with this Easy Kale Salad With Lemon.

Recipe Tips

Use the highest quality chicken you can afford. I used organic, pasture raised ground chicken.
These meatballs come our perfectly cooked in 7 minutes if you measure and roll the meatballs mixture into 1 tablespoon size meatballs.
Place the meatballs into the air fryer basket in a single layer so they do not stick together and they cook evenly on all sides.
For easier clean up use an air fryer parchment liner or you can just spray the air fryer basket with cooking spray. I like to also spray the liner so that the meatballs do not stick to it.
Let them cool for a few minutes before serving since they will continue to cook a little bit more while cooling.
To make these chicken meatballs in the oven, place them onto a lined baking sheet and cook them at 400 degrees F for 20-25 minutes.

Round tan bowl filled with a pile of sliced, cooked zucchini with cooked golden brown meatballs on top of the zucchini drizzled with red sauce with a spoon in the dish.

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