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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Lisa says
Thank you so much for sharing this FANTASTIC recipe! I made this for a Christmas potluck and everyone was giving it rave reviews…:) I read the posts and based on the “runny” comments, I decided to omit the eggs. I used Boursin (garlic and fine herb) soft cheese in place of blue cheese. Honestly, one of my all time favourites now! So easy to make. I even used a mini ice-cream scoop (with re release feature) so no mess and perfectly round and uniform mini meatballs! Thanks again!
Kim says
I made them, I thought they were great! The kids liked them too! So far, I have enjoyed your recipes that I have tried. Thanks for sharing!
Cassy says
I added some stuffing mix and water, and did not use blue cheese. Instead I cut round pieces of string cheese and built my ball around it, so when you bit in, it was cheese in the middle. They were OMG good!! Thank for the Idea!!
Katie says
i hate blue cheese so i used 1/2 a packet of ranch dressing mix instead and added in a handful of bread crumbs so it was more “solid” and they were melt in your mouth fantastic!! #foodporn
Mellissa Sevigny says
Glad you liked them Katie, great idea to season them with ranch dressing mix, I’ll have to try that!
Jessica Smith says
How do you think these would turn out without the blue cheese crumbles? I’m not a huge fan of blue cheese but I LOVE buffalo and spicy. Definitely want to give these a try.
Deanna Lyn says
yum ! is the right word, love this!
Jenny Louise says
could you make these ahead of time?
Mellissa Sevigny says
Yes, these reheat very well Jenny! Enjoy!
bennyandboo says
Just wondering if anyone has tried just pouring the sauce over half way through baking, instead of taking them out to dip? That’s what I always do with my turkey meatballs, but I have never used cream cheese in them before, only parm.
Thanks
Mellissa Sevigny says
I’m sure that would work too, it just won’t sauce the part that is in contact with the pan – but you can roll them around when they are done so that is no big deal. Hope you like them!
Christina says
I just came across your blog from a pin on pintrest!!! Love the idea with the meatbals…will be making these for Christmas this year!! Im sure they will be a hit as we all love hot wings!!! Thanks for sharing your ideas!!!
Mellissa Sevigny says
Thanks Christina and welcome to IBIH! Hope you guys like the meatballs!
Anonymous says
I despise blue cheese – has anyone tried Mozzarella instead??? I would love to try these, just can’t eat blue cheese. THANKS!
Mellissa Sevigny says
I would use parmesan in the meatball instead of mozz because it helps bind it together and adds nice flavor. Hope you like them!