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I'm going to start this recipe by clearing up a couple of things, a couple of things that mean I opted to call these balls of deliciousness chicken rissoles or chicken bites and not chicken meatballs

I'm a recipe blogger, I love food and I love sharing ideas around feeding kids. Over the years though, I have learnt that for this website to also create an income for me, then I need people to find my recipe when they are searching on google

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I'm not the biggest or the most powerful website, which means some of the super popular search terms I'm just not going to rank on google. Well I might rank, but my recipe will be like the 45th in the list of results, and let's be honest who scrolls to the 45th result 😉

Hence these chicken rissoles could be called chicken meatballs, both things actually mean pretty similar things. But I'm more likely to be found higher up in the search results if I opt for rissoles, so there you go that is the back story!

Chicken Parmesan Bites Perfect for the whole family

I love this recipe, I often make a double batch so that I can keep them in the freezer

For Ezzy I serve these chicken bites as a baby led weaning meal, they are a great finger food for babies over 6 months of age.

blue silicone divided plate with cooked pieces of pumpkin, potato, broccoli and 2 baked chicken meatballs — An example of Ezzy's lunch, she had this yesterday, she is 12 months old

I personally love them with a salad for a quick mum lunch. This is the lunch I had while Ezzy was merrily eating hers, oh, and throwing some of hers on the floor too. If you also have a baby having finger foods then they may like my tuna rice balls beef rissoles, or my mango chicken bites which are a sweet fruity take on a chicken meatball. Also feel free to check out the baby-led weaning recipes on my website.

A white bowl filled with coleslaw, broccoli and 5 chicken rissoles — A quick mum lunch!

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My bigger kids, they are 7, 6 and almost 5, love them dipped into tomato sauce (ketchup), aioli or hoisin sauce. They also quite like them in their lunchboxes.

a bowl full of chicken meatballs with a bowl of tomato relish for dipping — just with sauce!

Tips and tricks for making great chicken meatballs

bowl with chicken mince, egg, bread crumbs, olive oil, parmesan cheese, garlic powder, grated broccoli stalk — The ingredients!

Wet hands! When you are working with the minced chicken and other ingredients, keep your hands damp/wet, this way the mincey sticky mix won't stick to your hands and you will be able to make nice little even balls. oh and take any rings off!
Use a measuring spoon when you are scooping the mix, when you are making baked meatballs you want them all to be the same size so that they bake uniformly. I use my 15 ml tablespoon to scoop out the mix
When I make this recipe, I don't add salt, the recipe contains parmesan, and as I use these for my young bub I don't want additional salt in there too, but you can add salt and pepper if you want to
I use "Ornelle" grated parmesan in this recipe, it is a fine powder, but it only contains parmesan cheese, nothing else. I find it in the dairy section of my supermarket
I always add some grated veggies to this recipe, my absolute fav vegetable to add to the rissoles is grated broccoli stalk. Yep grate the stalk and add it in! If you are looking for other easy to add fruits and veggies to your kids' diet, be sure to check out my fruit and veggie hacks.
Don't forget the oil, chicken is very lean meat, well very lean if you compare it to minced beef or pork, therefore for a juicy and tasty chicken meatball don't skip the oil!

Woman's hand holding a bottle of extra virgin olive oil above a bowl with the chicken rissole ingredients — Don't forget the oil!

A head of broccoli on a chopping board with the stalk removed and sitting next to the florets — This bit, the stalky bit, I love using it grated in this recipe