Chicken Balls in Creamy Spinach Sauce

Ingredients

Chicken balls

• 500 g chicken breast
• 4 spring onions
• 4 garlic cloves
• 1 chicken stock cube
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 1/4 tsp each of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and cardamom
• 1 tsp lemon pepper seasoning, if available

Sauce

• 500 g fresh spinach leaves
• 250 g mushrooms (oyster mushrooms)
• 25 g unsalted butter
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 liter cream
• Mozzarella for the top
• 2 tbsp cream cheese
• 2 spring onions
• 1 chicken stock cube
• Black pepper
• 1/4 tsp salt

Method

1. In a food processor, pulse the chicken coarsely, then add the spring onions, garlic, spices and stock cube and blend until smooth. Shape into balls and refrigerate 15 minutes.
2. In a hot pan with half the butter and oil, fry the chicken balls until browned all over. Set aside covered with foil.
3. In the same pan, add the remaining butter and oil and the mushrooms until soft, then the roughly chopped spinach and spring onions until wilted, with the stock cube, cream, black pepper and cream cheese.
4. Pour the sauce into a baking dish, top with the chicken balls and then the mozzarella, and bake until the cheese melts and browns.