These delicious keto buffalo chicken meatballs have all of the flavor of your favorite classic buffalo wings without the bones, skin, or mess! Low carb and gluten free too!
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Superbowl is coming up in a few days and like most of you, we’re having a few friends over. In the past, classic buffalo wings were a must at our parties, and they are still pretty awesome. But from a logistics point of view, they can be annoying – especially with a large crowd.
Chicken wings are incredibly messy for one thing, and it’s not easy to eat them gracefully – and then if you have a drink in one hand and a plate in the other, it gets super complicated. Also there is always that awkward what do I do with these chicken bones issue.
Behold the keto buffalo chicken meatball – all of the flavors of a buffalo wing, in a low carb and keto friendly, easy to eat package. And they are super good! I may never make wings again!
Ok not really, but I’ll make them when nobody else is coming over, so I can ravage every last piece of meat off of them like a good wing deserves, without a mortified audience looking on in horror! I just giggled out loud picturing that…heh heh….
Anyway, these keto buffalo chicken meatballs have all the flavor of your favorite classic buffalo wings, with none of the bones, skin or mess.
If you’re like Mr. Hungry, this is a plus, because he doesn’t like the skin and hates eating chicken meat off of the bone – but he loves the flavor of classic buffalo wings.
If you’re a crockpot lover, you can totally form these and place them in the bottom of your crockpot, then pour the sauce over them and cook for about 3 hours on low – viola, buffalo chicken meatballs ready to go!
These keto buffalo chicken meatballs have a subtle blue cheese flavor, but I love the dressing so I added more and it was awesome! And of course, you must serve with celery sticks to be authentic!
More Buffalo Chicken Inspired Recipes:
Keto Egg Fast Buffalo Omelette
Buffalo Chicken Chopped Salad – Kara Creates
Buffalo Chicken Dip – Frank’s Red Hot
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Keto Buffalo Chicken Meatballs – Low Carb and Gluten Free
- Total Time: 37 minutes
- Yield: 18 meatballs 1x
- Diet: Gluten Free
Description
These delicious keto buffalo chicken meatballs have all of the flavor of your favorite classic buffalo wings without the bones, skin, or mess! Gluten free and Low Carb too!
Ingredients
For the Meatballs:
- 1lb ground chicken or turkey
- 1/3 cup almond flour
- 2 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons chopped celery
- 3 tablespoons crumbled blue cheese
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
For the Sauce:
- 1/2 stick (4 oz) unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup Frank’s Red Hot
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar substitute (I like erythritol)
Instructions
- Combine all of the meatball ingredients in a medium bowl.
- DO NOT ADD SALT!!! The Frank’s is super salty, as is the blue cheese so trust me you don’t need to add more.
- The mix will be sticky and gooey but that’s normal – if you are having trouble forming them, chill the mixture for 30 minutes before rolling into balls.
- Form into about 1 inch balls – remember these are cocktail/bite sized so don’t make them too big.
- Place them on a greased cookie sheet (with sides) and bake at 375 degrees (F) for 10 minutes.
- To make the sauce, combine the Frank’s and butter in a small saucepan on medium heat, or place in a microwave safe bowl for 2 minutes on high.
- After 10 minutes, remove balls from oven and dunk carefully (they are tender from the cream cheese and could fall apart if you are too rough) in the buffalo sauce.
- Put back onto the cookie sheet and bake for another 12 minutes.
- Remove and serve hot.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 22 minutes
- Category: Keto meatballs
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 3 meatballs
- Calories: 331
- Fat: 28g
- Carbohydrates: 2g net
- Protein: 17g
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Vivian says
How did I miss these?! They look delicious and what a great idea. My husband will love them!
Nadine says
Hi Mellissa,
I made these meatballs last night and they are awesome!!! I just had them for lunch with a salad. And I love them cold too :).
Katherine says
This is my favourite recipe! I have made this many time and it is a simple and delicious and healthy meal to make when I’m craving something salty! It’s also always a hit when we serve them to guests!
harris monique says
what is franks?
Mellissa Sevigny says
Frank’s Red Hot Pepper sauce
Amy says
Hi! We made these a few weeks ago and they were SOOO good!!! We’ve made them approximately half a dozen times since then, and shared the recipe with several friends who are now all making them regularly too. Thank you so much!
laurissa says
OH MY!
Eating these as I type. They are incredibly delicious. I doubled the batch because I know everything on your blog is ahhhhhhh mazing! I used turkey. I also left out the celery since the hubby doesn’t like it. They turned out so moist, and delicious. I do recommend saving a little extra sauce to pour over when they’re done cooking!
Making these probably once a week from now on, so easy!
<3
Dan says
Hey Mellissa, you’re blog is my haven. I come here all the time for inspiration when I’m looking for some creativity in my cooking. I see you wrote 6g net carbs per ball but I can’t figure out where those carbs come from.
Mellissa Sevigny says
Thanks for catching that Dan! I had an assistant for awhile last year who updated some recipes for me and it looks like that was a typo – there were also a bunch of paragraphs missing from the bottom so I’m glad you caught that! I made a couple of changes to the recipe as well to make them less sticky and easier to work with, as well as recalculating the nutrition info. Should be all set now and thanks again for letting me know!
Krystal Dy says
Hey there I think I pinned this recipe way back. I was wondering about the carbs. It says 6 net carbs per meatball. This seems way too high especially since I plan on having more than one meatball it will add up quickly. Is the whole recipe 6 net carbs?
Alyssa says
Just made this recipe, as today is Super Bowl. It came out great! I did add some breadcrumbs so the mixture was easier to work with. Thanks for sharing!
Mandi says
I just made this recipe…I used 1egg for 1lb meat…just a few tablespoons bread crumbs..even though its not low carb..a small amount can’t be awful :)..I made extra sauce and baked a bit longer..make sure to flip often for a perfect ball shape. Served it over a small amount of carrots and large amount of cauliflower because me and my hubby love buffalo cauliflower..it was perfect. He’s a picky eater and he was pleased and asked to make it again :) thanks for the share!!