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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Ria says
Hi Melissa,
I’d love to try these, but my young son is not really into hot and spicy. Also, we can’t use any kind of store bought sauces because he reacts to most additives. Can you recommend a recipe for an alternative sauce? Maybe a garlic one? Or a mild satay?
I’d be really grateful for any suggestions ;-)
Thanks,
Ria
Mellissa Sevigny says
I do have this recipe for chicken skewers with a satay-style peanut dipping sauce. If you omit the sriracha in the sauce, and the blue cheese in the meatballs this would probably taste great together! Let us know how they come out if you try it!
Jasmine says
I made these for the Superbowl and they were great! I just used one egg and they oozed a little, but were delicious.
For those wondering, I also made a gluten-free version with ground chicken in a garlic lime sauce. You can see the non-spicy version here: http://hodgepodgecook.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/garlic-lime-chicken-bites/ Thanks for the recipe!
swapna says
Hi there. I made your buffalo balls yesterday for super bowl. They were a huge hit.
I used only one egg. and baked them all the way before dousing in sauce. I was worried they would fall apart and I would have nothing to serve.
Ashley says
Make sure you read the directions BEFORE and DO NOT go step by step! When I made these I went step by step and the first line says combine ALL ingredients in a medium bowl. However, a few lines down it says to keep the hot sauce and butter separate. JUST AN FYI for all of the step by stepers like myself!
Mellissa Sevigny says
Ashley I am SO SORRY about that! When I entered this recipe into Ziplist I forgot to add the headings separating the meatball and sauce ingredients. Thanks so much for catching that, I updated the recipe to be more clear. Hope the meatballs weren’t a total disaster!
Cindi says
Am I the only one who doesn’t understand the recipe? Combine all of the meatball ingredients in a medium bowl…what exactly are the meatball ingredients? everything listed? then later in the recipe it says to ‘Combine the Frank’s and butter in a small saucepan’ so the butter and Franks don’t go into the meatballs? they are the dressing that goes on after, or do you add the butter and Franks to the meat then use them again to make the sauce? I’m a little confused
Adam A says
Hi, I just found your blog by accident today and I am loving all the low carb recipes. I just made this one and it was amazing. Thanks for creating such a great blog.
Tara says
So these balls? Pure genius! I’ve been craving buffalo [anything] for weeks and may just be giving these guys a big ol’ whirl this weekend…and we don’t even do Super Bowl! Thanks so much for sharing!
Janis Mauro says
I will be making these on Sunday for Superbowl!! Cant find chicken wings anywhere and we love buffalo chicken dip!!!
YUM
DEBBIE AUEN says
WE made a triple batch of these for a birthday party and they turned out delicious…..We followed your recipe,may have been a bit more meat and there was just a little blue cheese crumbles left in the container so we added it (instead of leaving just a bit in the container) everyone loved them and they stayed formed perfectly…..Thank you for sharing will bring these to many get togethers……
Nicole says
I want to try this appatizer for Suber Bowl Sunday as my family loves anything dealing with buffalo and my sister, mom, and I are currently on new food plans. But non of us like Blue Cheese, I’m wondering what you would use as a substitute for that? Looking forward to trying this out because reading the comments makes my mouth water!!