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I just can’t get enough of homemade taco seasoning lately! I’ve been adding it to ground turkey and ground chicken almost every day and have been loving how the seasoning flavors pair with vegetables, especially avocado. Yum!
To avoid making the same dish toooo often, I took the ingredients that I normally use, but put them into a different form. A meatball form, to be exact. A high-protein, taco-party in your mouth, meatball form… to be super exact!
Why are these Paleo Chicken Taco Meatballs a taco party in your mouth?? Well, for starters, the spices add an extra something something to the dish. 🙂 They taste like taco meat but in meatball form, who doesn’t love that?!
And while your tastebuds are having a fiesta, you can join right in knowing that this is a healthy, protein packed recipe. In one serving of this recipe (which is about 5 meatballs), there are 26 grams of protein!
If that wasn’t good enough, these meatballs are super easy to make and to eat. All you need are toothpicks or your fingers.
And when I say easy to eat, I mean there is less mess. I mean, I can’t be the only one that makes a mess every time that I scoop ground taco meat into a taco or salad… haha
So… Less mess, check! Easy to make, check! Delicious, check! Full of protein, double check! All of which means that these Paleo Chicken Taco Meatballs are the perfect snack or party food.
I made these the other day and left some of the extras on the kitchen counter… before I knew it, my husband had eaten all of them!
I kind of wish that I had thought of this recipe before Cinco de Mayo, buuuuut taco meatballs are good for any time of year!
Paleo Chicken Taco Meatballs (GF)
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground chicken
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
- 1/2 tsp chili powder
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/8 tsp ground cumin
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1/4 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp dried parsley
- 1/4 tsp dried oregano
- 1 Tbs hot sauce, (Frank’ hot sauce is Paleo :))
- 1 egg, , whisked
- 3 Tbs almond flour
- 2 tsp tomato paste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
- Cover a cookie sheet in aluminum foil.
- In a small bowl, mix together all of the dry spices ( salt, ground black pepper, chili powder, garlic powder, ground cumin, paprika, onion powder, dried parsley, and dried oregano).
- In a large bowl, mix together the ground chicken and the dry spices. Add the hot sauce, whisked egg, almond flour, and tomato paste to the bowl and mix well.
- Then, scoop 1 Tbs sized balls of the ground chicken mixture and place onto the cookie sheet. (You may need to roll the balls into your hands to shape them)
- Cook for 20 minutes.
- Yields 20 meatballs. ( 5 meatballs is about 26 grams of protein).
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
These are delicious! Do you know about how many calories are in each meatball?
Let me find out!
I just added the nutrition content.
What would the substitution be for coconut flour instead of almond flour?
Thanks!
You should put 1/4 the amount of coconut flour in when replacing almond flour. I’m not sure how exactly this would work here because I haven’t tried it. Let me know!
Tastewise totally prefer these chicken taco mealls to the turkey version. Turkey is very dry in general no matter how you cook it. Sciencewise is there a difference fat wise between turkey and chicken? Tasted great, and did eat them all #yohusband
There is a little bit more fat in ground chicken than in ground turkey, but the difference is not large