I usually walk right past the ground chicken when I’m at the grocery store in search of what other meats pique my interest. But as I walked through the store a few weeks ago I happened to notice – out of the corner of my eye – that ground chicken was on sale for $2.50. Not a bad deal, I thought. So I picked up the one-pound package and went on my merry way. When I got home, I put it in the freezer and immediately forgot about it until about a month later.
Then, rummaging through the freezer, wondering what I was going to make for dinner, I found that forgotten package of ground chicken. The next thing I needed to do was to decide what I wanted to do with it.
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It was then that I remembered taking a bite of a friend’s chicken piccata, one of the amazing dishes you can get at STIR at the Choo-Choo. I always order the tuna poke bowl when I visit that restaurant, but left thinking next time I’m going to get that chicken piccata.
OK, I’m rambling. Back to the topic at hand: ground chicken. I have my favorite piccata sauce, but was looking for a good recipe for chicken meatballs, and found a familiar one online. So I tossed the meatball ingredients together and made meatballs about the size of golf balls or a little smaller. One pound makes about 16 meatballs, plenty for two or three people.