Buffalo Chicken Meatball Recipe
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Buffalo Chicken Meatball Recipe
Description
Ground chicken is blended with beaten egg, bread crumbs, dried minced onion, salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper to create a flavorful mixture. Portioning into two-inch meatballs helps keep a uniform size and consistent cooking. Baking at 350°F ensures gentle cooking and reduces sticking by using a sprayed baking dish.
After baking, the meatballs are simmered in buffalo wing sauce combined with blue cheese dressing in a saucepan to meld flavors and coat the meatballs. Crumbled blue cheese is sprinkled over before serving to add creamy tang and texture contrast.
This method produces moist meatballs with a spicy coating, suitable as an appetizer or game-day dish.
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground chicken , hand torn into small pieces
- 1 egg , beaten
- 3/4 cup bread crumbs or plain with 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning, Italian style
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt coarse
- 1 tablespoon onion minced dried
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper ground
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 cup buffalo wing sauce
- 2 tablespoons blue cheese dressing , plus more for dipping
- 2 tablespoons blue cheese , crumbled
- cooking spray
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and coat a 9x13 baking dish with cooking spray. Ground chicken doesn't have a lot of fat, so you run the risk of sticking.
- In a large mixing bowl combine the ground chicken, egg, bread crumbs, dried onion flakes, salt, pepper and cayenne. With very clean heads or wearing non-powder latex gloves, mix thoroughly.
- Form the meat mixture into 2-inch meatballs with your hands. Because the amounts of water added to ground chicken vary you may need to add extra breadcrumbs to help bind.
- Bake the meatballs for 20 minutes, or until outsides are fully cooked and inside registrars at 165°F.
- Meanwhile, combine the buffalo wing sauce and 2 tablespoons of blue cheese dressing in a medium saucepan over low heat.
- Add the meatballs to sauce and simmer for an additional 10-20 minutes. Sprinkle with crumbled blue cheese and serve hot!
- If you've tried this recipe, come back and let us know how it was in the comments or star ratings.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 20meatballs
Amount Per Serving
Calories 55 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 55kcal | 3% |
| Carbohydrates | 3g | 1% |
| Protein | 5g | 10% |
| Fat | 2g | 3% |
| Cholesterol | 28mg | 9% |
| Sodium | 496mg | 21% |
| Potassium | 131mg | 3% |
| Vitamin A | 20IU | 0% |
| Calcium | 15mg | 2% |
| Iron | 0.4mg | 2% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Overall Rating
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