| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 40 min |
| Active: | 25 min |
| Yield: | 18 meatballs |
Ingredients
- Nonstick cooking spray, for spraying baking sheet
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup hot sauce
- 1 pound ground chicken
- 3/4 cup breadcrumbs
- 1/3 cup minced celery
- 1 egg
- 1/2 small onion, grated
- Kosher salt
- Sauce:
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
- 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Celery sticks, for serving
Instructions
- For the meatballs: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Spray a rimmed baking sheet with cooking spray.
- Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in the hot sauce, remove from the heat and let cool to room temperature.
- Combine the chicken, breadcrumbs, celery, egg, onions and 1 teaspoon salt in a large bowl. Add 2/3 cup of the cooled hot sauce mixture (reserve the rest) and mix to combine. Form the chicken mixture into 2-inch meatballs (about 18 total) and place them on the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake until cooked through, about 20 minutes, brushing the meatballs with the reserved hot sauce mixture during the last 8 minutes.
- For the sauce: Combine the sour cream, mayonnaise, blue cheese and vinegar in a small bowl. Season with salt and pepper.
- Serve the meatballs with the sauce and celery sticks.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 18 servings |
| Calories | 142 |
| Total Fat | 11 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Carbohydrates | 4 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Sugar | 1 g |
| Protein | 6 g |
| Cholesterol | 47 mg |
| Sodium | 265 mg |
Reviews
I’ve made these a few times and they are always a hit. Super easy to make exactly as written. Crowd pleaser!
Made these with ground turkey the other day and was surprised how flavorful they were. I’ll probably make a double batch in future for meal prep.
Delicious! I need a new party app and this is perfect for adults and kids. Use Panko Bread crumbs and you get a crunchy texture. Make extra sauce hot sauce/butter. Put one meatball on a slider roll, a slice of dill pickle and top with extra sauce and either ranch or blue cheese and you have a cocktail slider!
This recipe is so easy, and results are super tasty. I’d eliminate salt next time, since wing sauce already is salty. My partner loves these because meatballs themselves don’t contain blue cheese. Other reviewers are right they are very spicy, but in a good way. They really need nothing texture is perfect – very pillowy and spongy like a beef meatball. I also think they’re relatively healthy on their own – save for the Butter.
Everyone loves these meatballs can’t make enough only thing is I reduce the hot sauce it was overwhelming and too hot for even me and I love spicy
The flavor was really good but the consistency was off. The mixture was too mushy to form and they didn’t maintain any shape in the oven. If I try them again I will use less butter with the sauce and more breadcrumbs.
The chicken mixture itself once all mixed together smells very good. Adding the finished meatballs to Franks Red Hot wing sauce and a little minced garlic and we’re talking something GOOD! Made these for a SuperBowl party. NOT ONE MEATBALL LEFT!