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Buffalo Chicken Meatballs are perfect for football season! Made with minced celery and carrots hidden inside, topped with hot sauce, and homemade blue cheese dressing – yum!
Buffalo Chicken Meatballs
Buffalo Chicken MeatballsYou can put buffalo sauce on anything and it will taste great! Some favorite buffalo chicken dishes are Buffalo Chicken Strips, Buffalo Chicken Jalapeno Poppers and Buffalo chicken dip, it’s my favorite! Since these are appetizers I calculated the N.I. per meatball but by all means, eat more than one!
How do you make buffalo chicken meatballs?
Ground chicken is mixed with chopped celery, carrots, scallions and panko, then rolled into balls and baked in the oven. Once they are ready you toss them with hot sauce, and drizzle them with blue cheese dressing.
You may also enjoy these chicken recipes:
- Healthy Baked Chicken Nuggets
- Pickle Brined Baked Chicken Tenders
- Tortilla Encrusted Chicken Tenders
- Skinny Buffalo Chicken Strips
- Sesame Encrusted Baked Chicken Tenders
Buffalo Chicken Meatballs
Perfect for football season! Baked chicken meatballs with minced celery and carrots hidden inside, topped with hot sauce, and homemade blue cheese dressing – yum!
Yield: 26 meatballs
Serving Size: 1 meatball
Ingredients
- oil spray I used my mister
- 1 1/4 lb ground chicken
- 1/4 cup panko crumbs
- 1 large egg
- 2 scallions chopped
- 1/3 cup finely minced celery
- 1/3 cup finely minced carrot
- 1 clove crushed garlic
- kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 1/3 cup Franks Hot sauce
- 1/4 cup skinny blue cheese dressing optional
- finely chopped celery leaf for garnish optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Lightly spray a non-stick baking sheet with oil.
- In a large bowl, combine the ground chicken, panko crumbs, egg, scallions, celery, carrot and garlic; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Using clean hands, mix until combined. Roll the mixture (1/8 cup each) into 26 round meatballs.
- Place meatballs onto prepared baking sheet and bake until cooked through and golden, about 16 to 18 minutes.
- Place the meatballs in a bowl, add the buffalo sauce and gently toss to combine.
- Serve immediately, drizzled with blue cheese dressing, if desired.
Last Step:
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Nutrition
Serving: 1 meatball, Calories: 37 kcal, Carbohydrates: 1 g, Protein: 4 g, Fat: 2 g, Cholesterol: 26 mg, Sodium: 135 mg
Hello
Could I prep these and freeze without sauce. Then cook would I cook from frozen or thawed
Sure I would probably partially cook, then they will finish when you reheat
These look amazing! Do you think subbing almond flour for the panko would work (for those who are Paleo or doing a W30?)
I like using riced cauliflower, works great!
These are yummy.
Can you prep these ahead of time?? A day or two possibly?
Sure
OMG! These were awesome! Thanks so much for sharing!
Man, these are so good. They really scratch that ‘itch’ for chicken wings when you don’t have any, can’t be bothered to make or don’t have the calorie budget for the real deal. Definitely need the dressing (or something creamy) as they’ve got a little spice, which is wonderful. Yum!!
I used these with Gina’s zero point marinara sauce instead of Frank’s hot sauce. Since 1/4 cup panko = 3 blue points and the ground chicken I used was 99% fat free, these were practically a zero-point dinner. Also, instead of spraying the sheet pan, I lined it with non-stick tinfoil. They are excellent.
Delicious! My family loved them. I will definitely be making these again!
These were great! I actually like them without the buffalo sauce and added more carrots and celery. I also substituted ground turkey. My question is about the calories… 37000 per meatball? Is that wrong?
Lol, no it is 37 calories.
Does no one else find it frustrating when a recipe says “salt and pepper to taste” even though you’re adding the salt and pepper to raw meat? Otherwise, recipe is good!
Agreed! How much did you use?
No, some people like more and some people like less; I never measure either one
I do 1 tsp per pound of meat if nothing else is salty. But if I add W sauce, soy sauce, seasoned salt, broth, cream soup, etc., I do 1/2 tsp. We do not have high blood pressure (mine runs low) so I don’t worry about restricting. For pepper I do half the salt amount. I always figure people can add more. You might do less, but for me, it makes cooking less stressful to standardize the amount in my head.
These are amazing, my husband and dad eat them up fast and furious, ok, truth be told, I do too. I have made them many, many times. I add a tablespoon of Frank’s hot sauce to the mixture then use Frank’s buffalo wing sauce to coat after cooking. It’s important to not overcook, I watch them closely and take the meatballs out when they reach 165 degrees internal temperature.
Not sure what I did wrong but there is NO way these were going into meatball. Nothing to hold them together. So sad!
Nothing to hold them together??? The panko and egg hold them together. I have made these dozens of times and they never fall apart.
I decided to slightly switch up my normal buffalo chicken meatball recipe and try this instead. The addition of carrots and celery to the meatballs gave it a great crunch this is something that I haven’t done before but will continue to do moving forward as it really adds something to the meatball. My only modifications that I made was the addition of some fresh parsley and blue cheese crumbles and I omitted the green onions (I did not have any). The flavor even before the hot sauce was added was great. I am definitely looking forward to this weeks lunches.
These were good! Mine came out a little dry but I broiled them at the very end so my fault. Instead of blue cheese I made a ranch with Greek yogurt.
Fabulous!
I was wondering why mine came out so wet, and i realized I added the wing sauce to the mixture rather than pouring on top after baking! I saved the mixture by adding more breadcrumbs and I was able to roll them. They came out delicious with the wing sauce baked in the mixture! Also, the blue cheese dressing was very easy to make and compliments well!
Hi Gina.
To bring as an API somewhere. Making ahead and bringing with you to the party. How would you serve the blue cheese ?
Any tips ?
Gonna try making these tonight or tomorrow to try first 🙂
Tnx
how would you recommend doing this in an air fryer?
Thank you for this recipe! We love it sooo much in my home. I make a batch weekly. Easy, healty and delicious. Oh, and they freeze really well! ❤️❤️❤️