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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Tammy says
We had these for dinner tonight. I made a double batch and put some of the meat mix up for burgers. I doubled the recipe, minus one egg. Added two cloves minced garlic, we love our garlic. I let the flavors meld in the refrigerator for an hour. Then we baked for 25 minutes at 450. Brushed with sauce and broiled for about five minutes.
My skeptical husband, thoroughly enjoyed these.
Mellissa Sevigny says
Glad your hubby liked them Tammy! And I’m a big fan of garlic too so I’m sure they tasted great! :)
Jill says
These are awesome! I only used 1 egg though, and threw in about 1/3 cup of panko bread crumbs because I was worried they would fall apart. Thanks for the recipe!
Mellissa Sevigny says
Thanks for the comment Jill, glad you were able to make these work for you!
Anonymous says
I made a double recipe of these yesterday – one with blue cheese for me and one with parmesan for others in my family. They are wonderful! After reading the comments, I decided to use just one egg per lb of chicken and they were easy to form. I used parchment paper so super easy to get off the pan. I LOVED the blue cheese flavor. My family loved the others; my eleven year old son ate almost the whole lb. in one sitting. We’ve been trying to find things for him to eat for breakfast that are low-sugar/low carb but not eggs since he gets bored of them. He said he’d eat these every day for breakfast! Thank you!
Mellissa Sevigny says
I’m so happy that your son liked them! It’s challenging when you have kids with special dietary needs and I’m thrilled that these were a hit! Thanks for the feedback!
SleepyMamma says
I made a bastardized version of this today that worked out well. (I thought i had all the ingredients when I started) I used 3 wedges of blue cheese flavored Laughing Cow cheese, a bit of shredded gouda, celery, 1.5 lbs ground turkey, 1 egg, pepper, and a few drops of hot sauce in the meat mix. Followed your directions and they turned out great! meatballs were fine when sauced. Thanks for the recipe!
Mellissa Sevigny says
I like the idea of using the laughing cow cheese! Glad they worked out for you, thanks for sharing your tips!
Jillian {Her Split Ends} says
YUMMO! These sounds amazing. Can’t wait to try them..i’m thinking thanskgiving day appetizer :)
Cheers
~ Jillian
http://www.hersplitends.com
Mellissa Sevigny says
Hope you guys like them! :)
Anonymous says
I plan on trying these tonight! For the nutritional info of “one” ball, how many balls does the 1lb of ground turkey make?
Mellissa Sevigny says
For this nutritional info it was 16 balls I think but you can make them smaller and get 20 or so. Also, a good bit of the calories come from the butter in the sauce, a lot of that ends up on the baking sheet but I count all of the ingredients for the nutritional info so it’s probably quite a bit less fat and calories per meatball than actually stated.
Heather says
These are RIDICULOUS! Amazing how delicious ground turkey breast can be with a little blue cheese and buffalo seasoning! My husband couldn’t get enough of these on a lazy football Sunday. Thanks for sharing, Melissa and keep these great low carb recipes coming :)
Mellissa Sevigny says
Thanks Heather! These are always a hit with both the guys and the girls which is a plus! What is it about football and buffalo flavored everything anyway? I don’t know but it works! Glad you guys enjoyed them!!!
Alyssa says
These are delicious. I made them for my buffalo sauce hating husband. Who promptly gobbled half the recipe and then asked why I didn’t make more. Huge hit. Thank you so much for posting!
Mellissa Sevigny says
Woo hoo! Another buffalo sauce convert – awesome! :)
Anonymous says
As one of your other commenters suggested, I made this as a loaf tonight. It was GOOD! I only used one egg & baked it for 40 minutes. Next time I’ll only pour half the sauce over the loaf & serve the other half on the side- it was kinda swimming in the sauce, but still turned out great! Thanks so much for the awesome recipe- I’ll definitely make it again. Turned out to be a great spin on comfort food!
~Kim
Mellissa Sevigny says
Thanks so much Kim, glad you liked it and I bet making it as a meatloaf saved a lot of time! I might try that on my next batch, thanks for sharing!
Jackson says
Thanks for the recipe. Here is my try at them http://imgur.com/a/gxebz . I used one egg instead of 2 and added some pork rinds to thicken up
Mellissa Sevigny says
Great idea on the pork rinds – love that idea! Glad you liked them!