Chicken Meatballs With Cilantro

These turn out moist and have a good flavor.  They are less than one Weight Watcher point per meatball if you use the fat free ground chicken breast.  I used a disher and got 20 meatballs about 1" in diameter.  I had the taco seasoning on hand and decided to use it but I'm sure that regular taco seasoning would work well also.

CHICKEN MEATBALLS WITH CILANTRO

1 lb. ground chicken breast

½ cup chopped cilantro -- I used more

1 small onion, grated

1 pkg. McCormick chicken taco seasoning

1 cup fresh breadcrumbs – 2 slices of bread

Combine ingredients well.  Shape into meatballs.

Place onto foil lined pan sprayed with Pam.

Spritz meatballs with oil to help brown them.

Bake at 325° for 20-25 minutes.

Meatball Pie With Biscuit Topping - 11 Smart Points

MEATBALL PIE WITH BISCUIT TOPPING

12 oz lean ground beef

¼ cup chopped onion

1 tsp. dried parsley

6 T.  Daisy light sour cream

1 can Cream of Celery soup

3 carrots, sliced and cooked until tender - reserve cooking liquid

6 oz. diced potatoes, cooked until tender and drained

1 can Shurfine Jumbo Buttermilk biscuits

Heat oven to 450°.  Mix beef, onion, parsley, 3 T. of the sour cream, salt and pepper.  Shape into 1” meatballs.  Place in a shallow pan and bake for 8-12 minutes.  Remove from pan and place meatballs into a 2 quart casserole dish.  Mix remaining sour cream, soup, carrots with juice and potatoes.  Pour over meatballs.  Cut two biscuits into 4 pieces each and place on top of meatball mixture.  Bake 15-20 minutes. 

Serves 4  -  11 Smart Points per serving

You can lower the Smart Points by using smaller biscuits.  The Shurfine ones I used were 7 points each! 
 

This is very filling and the servings are large.

You can also use canned carrots and potatoes to speed up prep time.

Ground beef                   12 Smart Points

Light sour cream             6 Smart Points

Cream of Celery soup     7.5 Smart Points

Carrots                            0 Smart Points

Potato                              6 Smart Points