These delicious Greek chicken meatballs are quick and easy to prep and pair perfectly with tangy homemade tzatziki sauce and fresh crunch veggies! These healthy, balanced, and nourishing bowls bring fun and fresh new flavors to your weeknight dinner – perfect for busy nights! The best part about serving up a bowl-style meal? Everyone picks their favorite part to pair with healthy meatballs full of flavor!
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Easy Greek Chicken Meatballs Bowls with Tzatziki
Bowls are my kind of meal. You get to pile on all kinds of flavorful components, go heavy on the veggies and there is always a sauce involved.
Sauces make a bowl, always.
To build our Greek chicken meatball bowls we start by getting the ground chicken mixed with lots of herbs, seasonings, garlic, and red onion.
While the meatballs bake, quickly mix up the cucumber yogurt sauce – AKA – tzatziki.
Chop your favorite veggies – cucumber and tomatoes go perfectly here!
And have your base ready to go – I opted for brown rice, but orzo would be lovely, along with a size of pita bread.
When all your components are ready to go, let everyone build their favorite bowl!
And if you’re serving to kids who are not as excited about bowls and everything touching, simply give them a plate and let them enjoy the foods separately.
Whatever works!
More favorite meatball recipes to try
- Adobo turkey meatballs
- Lamb meatball bowls with avocado cilantro sauce
- Freezer meatballs
- Jalepno cranberry beef meatballs
How to prep your Greek chicken meatballs in advance
Pro tip: meatballs are one of my favorite foods to meal prep.
They reheat perfectly and can be prepped ahead in many different ways making them a great recipe to keep in your arsenal.
You can:
- Mix the Greek chicken meatball mixture up in a large bowl and have it prepped and ready in a bowl, ready to roll the meat mixture into meatballs.
- Fully roll the mixture into meatballs waiting to be baked.
- Bake the meatballs ahead and store them in the fridge for up to 5 days. (My favorite way to prep ahead!)
- Make and bake your meatballs ahead, then cool and freeze and store in the freezer for up to 6 months. Reheat to enjoy!
What you need for chicken meatball bowls
For the full recipe ingredients list, nutritional information, and step-by-step instructions, scroll down to view the recipe card below.
- ground chicken
- red onion
- fresh parsley
- fresh mint leaves
- sea salt
- dried oregano
- dried dill
- chili powder
- black pepper
- garlic cloves
- plain greek yogurt
- Pure Flavor Uno BitesTM Nano Cucumbers
- lemon juice
- brown rice
- grape tomatoes
How to make greek chicken meatballs
Step 1: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F and line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
Step 2: To a large mixing bowl add all the meatball ingredients and mix well. Using a spoon or cookie scoop, form Greek meatballs using about 2 tablespoons of mixture per meatball. It will make around 29-30 meatballs. Place meatballs on the prepared baking sheet and bake meatballs for 15-18 minutes, or until fully cooked through. Use a meat thermometer to check that your meatballs’ internal temperature is at 165 degrees F. Don’t overcook because you want juicy chicken meatballs!
How to make tzatziki sauce recipe
Step 1: Add all the tzatziki ingredients into a food processor and pulse 4-5 times until the cucumber is broken into little bits and the sauce is looking smooth.
Step 2: Pour into a small bowl until ready to use.
How to build the best greek chicken meatball bowl
To build the best flavorful Greek bowls featuring juicy meatballs, fresh veggies, and fresh sauce, here’s what you do:
Have your rice (or other base grain) cooked and ready to go.
Add 4-5 greek chicken meatballs to your bowl.
Next, add the vegetables.
Lastly, load up on the tzatziki sauce.
Extra fresh herbs are always welcome!
Some fun additions would be feta cheese or kalamata olives!
NOTE: Swap the grain for extra greens and turn it into a Greek salad!
How to store leftovers
Leftover meatballs and all the components of this recipe can be added to an airtight container (all together or separated).
When you have lots of leftovers, you can easily pull together a quick meal on a busy weeknight!
Substitutions
Below you’ll find a list of substitutions that will work well in this Mediterranean chicken meatballs recipe.
If you try something different out, please leave a comment below letting us all know how it turned out!
Ground chicken – Substitute any type of ground meat in here like ground turkey, ground lamb, or ground beef. Since 2 pounds are used, you could, for example, use 1 pound of ground chicken with 1 pound of ground pork. Mix and match!
Red onion – Any onion variety will work here. For a more mild flavor try green onion.
Garlic – Use onion powder in place of the fresh garlic.
Herbs – The recipe calls for mint and parsley, but if you only have cilantro or basil, feel free to use those instead. You can also use dried herbs if fresh aren’t available. If herbs aren’t your thing you can always add baby spinach for some greens.
Greek yogurt – Plain (non-Greek) yogurt will work. Also using plain non-dairy yogurt works too!
Lemon juice – Try lime juice or apple cider vinegar as a substitute. Add a little lemon zest for more fresh flavor.
Brown rice – White rice, quinoa, farro, or any favorite grain works as the base for these bowls. Another option, up the veggies and use cauliflower rice instead!
More recipes you’ll love
- Adobo turkey meatballs
- Sheet pan beef gyros
- Lamb meatball bowls with avocado cilantro sauce
- Vegetarian mezze board
- Greek salmon buddha bowl
Greek Chicken Meatballs with Tzatziki and Veggie Bowls
Ingredients
Greek Chicken Meatballs Ingredients
- 2 lb ground chicken
- 1/4 cup red onion finely diced
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley chopped
- 2 tbsp fresh mint chopped
- 1.5 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp dried dill
- 1/2 tsp chili powder
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 4 garlic cloves minced
Tzatziki Ingredients
- 1 cup plain greek yogurt
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 2/3 cup Uno BitesTM Nano Cucumbers
- 1/4 cup fresh mint
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1/8 tsp sea salt
- 1/8 tsp pepper
Bowl Ingredients
- 4 cups cooked brown rice
- 2 cups Uno BitesTM Nano Cucumbers diced
- 2 cups grape tomatoes diced
- 1/4 cup red onion thinly sliced
- extra mint and parsley for serving/garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F and line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
- To a large bowl add all the meatball ingredients and mix well. Using a spoon or cookie scoop, form meatballs using about 2 tablespoons of mixture per meatball. It will make around 29-30 meatballs. Place the meatballs on the prepared baking sheet and bake for 15-18 minutes, or until fully cooked through.
- Add all the tzatziki ingredients into a food processor and pulse 4-5 times until the cucumber is broken into little bits and the sauce is looking smooth.
- To build the best flavorful bowls featuring greek chicken meatballs, crunchy veggies and fresh sauce, here’s what you do. Add rice to your bowl. Add 4-5 greek chicken meatballs to your bowl. Next, add the vegetables. Lastly, load up on the tzatziki sauce. Extra herbs are always welcome!
Nutrition
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XO
Heather
Originally published in March 2022. Updated March 2024.
