Simple Recipes for Every Day
Buffalo Chicken Meatballs
- Serves: 6
- Prep Time: 20 min
- Cook Time: 25 min
Ingredients
- 1 lb chicken, ground
- ½ cup bread crumbs
- 1 egg
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- ¼ cup grated onion, liquid drained
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp onion powder
- ¼ cup buffalo sauce. plus more for serving
- blue cheese dressing, for serving
- celery, for serving
Method
- Heat oven to 400°F.
- Grate the onion in a food processor or with a cheese grater over a kitchen towel lined colander. Pick up the corners of the kitchen towel and squeeze out the onion juice. If you use a food processor, scoop out the grated onion onto a kitchen towel and squeeze out the onion juice over the sink.
- In a large bowl combine ground chicken, bread crumbs, eggs, garlic, grated onion, salt, garlic powder, onion powder and buffalo sauce until fully mixed.
- Using your hands form meatballs the size of golf balls, about 2 tablespoons each, and arrange on an oiled, rimmed baking sheet pan.
- Brush or spray the meatballs with olive oil.
- Bake for 25 minutes.
- Brush meatballs with remaining sauce and serve with Blue cheese dressing and celery.
*Makes 12 large meatballs.