Buffalo Chicken Meatball Recipe
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Buffalo Chicken Meatballs are the best meal or snack! Buffalo chicken balls are perfect for an appetizer or meal prep. Healthy & delicious!
There’s nothing I love more than buffalo sauce! I literally put it on everything- Buffalo Chicken Salad, Buffalo Chicken Dip, Buffalo Chicken Soup, and more!
The combo of buffalo sauce and blue cheese in these meatballs is too good! And if you are worried about dry ground chicken in these meatballs, trust me, these are moist, flavorful, and super easy to make in just one bowl with 5 minutes of prep!
Loaded with protein, hidden veggies (almost 1/2 cup per serving), and no eggs to be egg-allergy-friendly, these healthy meatballs make for the perfect snack, lunch, or dinner addition! They are a great meal prep recipe!
liz’s top tips for buffalo chicken meatballs
- Be sure not to overbake your meatballs! This can lead to tough meatballs that fall apart.
- To have a uniform meatball size, use a cookie scoop.
- For easy meal prep, freeze fully cooked meatballs and store in a freezer-safe bag and pull out a few to warm up when you are ready to enjoy.
Ingredients
Substitutions
Olive Oil: You can substitute avocado oil, butter, or ghee.
Ground Chicken – You can sub-ground chicken for ground turkey and ground beef. We also love these Healthy Buffalo Turkey Meatballs or Healthy Turkey Meatballs.
Veggies – If you don’t like celery or carrot, simply omit them. If you’re out of one veggie.. add a little more of another!
Blue Cheese – You can omit the cheese or sub in any cheese you like for blue cheese! Goat cheese or feta is great!
Sauce – You could use BBQ sauce or hot sauce instead of buffalo sauce in this recipe and they would be delicious, but would be a different flavor! If you don’t like buffalo sauce, try these regular Chicken Meatballs.
How to Make Buffalo Chicken meatballs
- Chop all vegetables and add to a bowl..
- Combine all ingredients. (You can mix by hand or in a stand mixer on low)
- Roll into 1.5-inch balls and place on a prepared baking sheet.
- Bake at 450 for 20 minutes, allow cooling + enjoy!
What to Serve with Buffalo Chicken Meatballs
These buffalo chicken meatballs are pretty versatile and go well with anything!
We love them over an avocado ranch salad, rice, or even a simple, delicious sandwich or wrap. We also love serving them as an appetizer with our healthy blue cheese dressing!
As a game day snack or party appetizer, serve them with ranch dressing beside some buffalo wings.
Storing Ground Chicken Buffalo Meatballs
Refrigerator: You can keep these buffalo meatballs in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
Freezing: These meatballs freeze perfectly. We freeze ours in a Ziploc bag after baking them. Do not freeze the batter raw. They last up to 3 months in the freezer. When you’re ready to eat/reheat them I just pop them in the microwave for a few minutes and they’re good to go!
Reheating: I microwave these buffalo meatballs to reheat them, but you can also cook them on the stovetop until warm or put them in the toaster oven.
Buffalo Chicken Meatballs
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground chicken
- 1/4 cup carrots, minced
- 1/4 cup celery, minced
- 1/4 cup onion, minced
- 1 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 cup buffalo sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 3 tablespoons bread crumbs
- 1/3 cup crumbled blue cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 and prepare a parchment lined baking sheet.
- Chop all vegetables. In a large bowl combine all ingredients. (You can mix by hand or in a stand mixer on low.
- Roll into 1.5 inch balls and place on a lined baking sheet.
- Bake at 450 for 20 minutes, allow to cool + enjoy!
These look delicious. Sorry if i missed it, what is the serving size for the nutrition facts listed? is that per meatball? Thank you.
It’s for 1 meatball!
I made these today and they are absolutely delicious. I couldn’t find ground chicken at the grocery store I was shopping at so I got ground turkey. Not sure if that mattered.
Thank you for the recipe!
I will definitely be making these regularly
Umm – these will be on a regular rotation. These are VERY good! I made some changes to fit my needs and to use what I had on hand, but that’s what I enjoy about cooking…making changes where and if needed! Every recipe I’ve tried from The Clean Eating Couple has been a winner!
Excellent! Super easy and fast to put together and they were delicious. Super flavorful and juicy. Will definitely be making again, though I’ll have to double the recipe to have leftovers, we couldn’t stop eating them 😋
Used feta instead of bleu cheese as I had that in the fridge already and then brushed the meatballs with Buffalo sauce once they finished baking. Delicious!!
Ohhh good idea to brush them with Buffalo sauce! I’ll do that next time.