Ingredients:

(Serves 8)

Ingredients:

• 500 g chicken mince, free range
• Salt & Pepper to taste
• 15 ml spring onion, finely chopped
• ½ cup rolled oats, blended into fine crumbs
• ½ cup desiccated coconut
• 60 ml coconut oil, for frying

Sauce

• 100 g fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced in half
• 60 ml water
• 100 ml sweet chilli sauce, store bought

Method:

• Mix the mince, salt, pepper and spring onion together. Roll the mince into meat balls into your preferred size.
• Mix the coconut and fine oats in a flat dish, cover the meat balls with the oat & coconut ‘crumbs’. Fry them in coconut oil until golden brown and crispy.

Sauce:

• Cook the strawberries and water together for 8 minutes, mash the softened strawberries into a sauce. Once cooled, mix with the sweet chilli sauce.

Serve chicken meat balls with rice and strawberry sweet chilli sauce.

Comments: Served with a strawberry sweet chilli dip, this Middle-Eastern light meal was given the twist it lacked. Have it as an easy mid-week lunch or dinner, when long hours in the kitchen are not an option.

Marelie Winterbach