Coconut gochujang chicken meatballs curry with broccoli. This 30-minute dish is an easy to make yet most flavorful weeknight dinner. Made with melt-in-your-mouth tender meatballs and spicy gochujang paste combined with coconut milk, which mellows the spicy paste into a funky-spicy-sweet cream sauce. Serve over rice for a surprising result.
The key ingredient in this dish is the Korean gochujang, a red chili paste made with fermented soybeans. It’s sticky and thick, and when mixed with coconut milk, it creates a thrilling taste. I chose broccoli as the accompaniment vegetable, but cauliflower or spinach would also work.
It’s super easy to make. We pan-sear the meatballs, cook the sauce, add broccoli and simmer everything in one pot to create a super flavorful meal. Enjoy served with noodles, rice or cauliflower rice and a cucumber salad.
This is a spicy dish, but not sweat-breaking-on-your-forehead-spicy, but if you’re a heat-lover, you can opt for a spicier heat level if you want and add more gochujang paste. Or if you want just some little heat, start by adding 1 tablespoon to the sauce.
Let me guide you through the recipe with this step-by-step VIDEO.
RECIPE NOTES
- if you’re a heat-lover, you can opt to add more gochujang paste. Or if you want just a little heat, start by adding 1 tablespoon to the sauce
- instead of broccoli add sweet potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, turnips, zucchini, spinach or green beans
- swap ground chicken for pork or use the sauce with grilled pork ribs, shrimp or seared chicken fillets
- serve over noodles or rice and add a cucumber salad
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Cooking Video
Calories Per Serving: 368 kcalCoconut Gochujang Chicken Meatballs
Ingredients
Chicken Meatballs
Coconut Gochujang Sauce
Instructions
Add the ingredients for the meatballs to a large bowl. Mix until just combined, using your hands. Roll the meat into 2-tablespoon sized balls. Will make about 20 meatballs.Notes
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.