Blue Cheese Stuffed Buffalo Chicken Meatballs
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I made these over the weekend for the Mr. He’s a big fan of buffalo chicken, so I’ve been having fun experimenting on him with new buffalo chicken creations. I actually meant to get to several other recipes but it just wasn’t in the cards. Saturday was errand and chore day, which left Sunday for recipe testing. But you see… I just couldn’t resist snuggle time with my lil man SO I only got to making these meatballs. Thankfully they didn’t disappoint.
These require a bit more time than the average baked meatball, but it’s all in the prep. You could make the mixing even quicker by tossing the ingredients into a food processor or stand mixer and blending away, but there’s just something fun about mixing this by hand. Maybe it’s the child in me still wanting to squish and mash play-doh and slime? The up side to this, it is delicious after baked. I’m willing to bet play-doh and slime wouldn’t have the same result after being rolled and baked.
Did I mention that there’s a super secret and awesome filling? There are chunks of blue cheese stuffed into each meatball that begin to melt and ooze while baking.
Eat them as is, dip in blue cheese dressing or create a buffalo meatball sub! You’ll enjoy this any way you decide to eat them.
Blue Cheese Stuffed Buffalo Chicken Meatballs
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground chicken
- 3/4 C seasoned breadcrumbs
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
- 1/4 C yellow onion minced
- 1/4 C celery minced
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 C buffalo sauce
- Blue cheese crumbles
- Blue cheese dressing for dipping
- Celery sticks
- Additional buffalo sauce
- Sub rolls
- Mozzarella cheese slices
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Mince onion and celery.
- In a large bowl combine: ground chicken, breadcrumbs, egg, salt, pepper, celery, onion and buffalo sauce. Mix by hand until ingredients are combined well.
- Grab a portion of meatball mixture. Create a well to place a few crumbles of blue cheese. Shape into a 1 1/2" ball. Transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet or glass baking pan.
- Bake at 350°F for 35-40 minutes.
- Eat warm with optional dipping sauces and celery sticks.
- To create a sub: Slice a sub roll length wise. Lay slices of cheese on the inside of your roll, overlapping. Toss meatballs in a small amount of buffalo sauce. Add coated meatballs to sub roll. Add sub to an oven safe container. Broil until cheese is melted. Slice and enjoy warm. *Dip in chunky blue cheese dressing for additional flavor.
Notes
ooo stuffing them with blue cheese in them… awesome.
That sandwich looks so good.
I think you already know how I feel about these. There are so many levels of awesome in this post. Love it!
You are killing me! These are a great idea and that sandwich!? Irresistible!
This is painful to read…I WANT SOME!!! Wow that sandwich is crazy-awesome!
Oooooh, I just made buffalo chicken meatballs recently too! Yours look wonderful, and if I liked blue cheese, I’d be all over this version. I might need to try with a cheddar stuffing…
You deserve some sort of award in buffalo chicken cooking. Or maybe you should just write a buffalo chicken cookbook:-)
I’d be lying if I said that has never crossed my mind lol ;) Thanks Lauren
yum, these look fantastic! pinning ’em to try ’em soon!
Ooh, we love stuffed meatballs! This is pretty brilliant!
You are the Buffalo chicken Queen!! Another amazing one!
Such an original idea for meatballs!
Oh this looks fantastic! And I love the toasted melt idea too. Yum-oh!
Buffalo chicken and stuffed? Awesome.
WOW–these sound amazing. I never thought to make a chicken meatball… and then stuff it with cheese. This is totally rocking my world right now… I know my hubby will thank you for introducing me to this recipe! lol.
These look amazing. So many of your buffalo creations I have yet to make. My Rachel just can’t get into buffalo so I can only make these creations for myself (not that that’s a bad thing)
LOVING this idea!!!!
Um, yes – I WANT these !!
yum! im in college so im always looking for easy, delicious, nutritious recipes. thanks!
Just made these today. They were okay..didn’t wow me… Think it would be better if you do a quick drop of the balls in buffalo wing sauce right after they come out of the oven. Unfortunately, I’m out of the sauce since I barely had 1/4C for the recipe. Will pick some up tomorrow and see how if works with the leftover meatballs.
That’s what I did for the subs, but left them as is otherwise so they could be dipped as desired and not get soggy.
Umm… yes, please! These look great!
Just prepped these into burger form for dinners this week! :)
Nice! I hope you enjoy them. Let me know what you think. :)