Parmesan Chicken Meatballs

Ingredients

1.  16 ounces of ground chicken

2.  2 medium onions

3.  1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese

4.  2 tablespoons of dried thyme

5. 1/4 cup milled flax-seed

6.  1/4 cup minced garlic

7.  1 tablespoon granulated onion

8.  1/2 tablespoon mustard

Recipe

1.  Combine chicken, cheese, thyme, garlic, granulated onion, mustard and milled flax-seed in a bowl.  Using hands, unless you know a better way, mix this into a big bowl of pasty chicken loafy stuff.

2.  Spoon out 1oz (by weight) gobs of meat paste and roll it around into a ball.  Weighing it out is the best way.  This will make approximately 18-20 of these monkeys.

3.  Put in the fridge.  They will harden up and do a better job of staying together, remember the usual bread crumbs and eggs are lacking in this recipe.

4.  Slice the 2 onions into pedals and sweat in a pan with 1 teaspoon of olive oil.  The operative word is sweat, you want liquid from the onions.  It takes about 10-15 minutes, they will look translucent and will have rendered some liquid.

5.  Get the meatballs out of the fridge and put in pan and crank the heat to medium-high, and lid tight.  Leave it alone for about 10 minutes.

6.  After 10 minutes, open lid, stir, turn the meatballs over and repeat for another 5 minutes.

7.  At this point, they should be done.  I would highly recommend taking one out and cutting it open to make sure it is done.  If it is, yay!  If not, throw it away and check another one in 5 minutes.

At the end of the day, you should have approximately 4 servings of 4 ounces worth with maybe 2 extra or so.  These are yummy and are right in the wheelhouse of phase II.

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