These healthy Chicken Meatballs are delicious and fiber-rich.Plus, they’re versatile enough to meal prep and use in all sorts of ways throughout the week!  Your New Favorite Chicken Meatball Recipe  In the past, I’ve made a version of ground turkey or ground chicken meatballs with carrots, a little onion, garlic, and herbs.They’re great, but we’ve all been trying to up our fiber intake and the variety of vegetables we eat each day.  So on a recent weeknight, I decided to see just how far I could push a pound of ground chicken.

I whipped up these meatballs for dinner with the goal of incorporating more fiber and more flavor.  My dad had recently processed a large Italian pumpkin (a variety of violina rugosa butternut), so I grated some to go into the meatballs, finely chopped white button mushrooms (though humble, they’re one of the healthiest—not to mention accessible—mushrooms you can eat), and all the usual meatball suspects—garlic, onion, herbs, breadcrumbs, and a splash of milk.  I just baked them in the oven (easy!) and loved the extra body that the pumpkin added! The mushrooms added lots of flavor and also beta-glucans and prebiotic fiber, which are both excellent for overall health.If you don’t have pumpkin, you can use carrot, sweet potato or butternut squash.All would work great.

A Versatile Building Block for Multiple Kinds of Meals  I love having a container of these meatballs baked up and ready in my fridge, be

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