Superbowl is on its way and I wanted to bring you a few simple appetizer foods to make sure you can take part in the festivities and stay on track! It is just a given that with any Superbowl party comes a huge amount of food, and it is usually food that makes it pretty hard to stay on track, pizza, wings, cheesy dips…the list goes on! Most of you might know my love for buffalo chicken, and I have another creation coming your way soon too! These buffalo chicken meatballs are easy to make, super filling and I won’t lie they are spicy, but you can always lower the hot sauce to tone them down a bit. Makes 36 meatballs and a serving of 3 is just 1 smart point on WW freestyle! *Note, the seasonings used in these meatballs are the same that are used to make my ranch dip and this is also what I served for the dipping sauce. If you do not have all those seasonings in the house you could probably just use some packaged ranch dip.
Buffalo chicken meatballs
Ingredients
- 2 lbs raw fat free ground chicken
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- 1 egg
- 2 cloves garlic diced
- 2/3 cups + 2 Tbsp franks original hot sauce
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 2 tsp dried parsley
- 2 tsp dried chives
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1/2 tsp dill weed
- 1/4 tsp paprika
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F, line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and spray with some cooking spray.
- Mix your ground chicken, breadcrumbs, egg, 2 Tbsp franks sauce (leave the 2/3 cups for after they have cooked) and seasoning in a bowl. Form into balls using approx 1 Tbsp of your chicken mix, place on baking sheet, you should yield 36 meatballs.
- Bake for 15 minutes, turning halfway. Remove from oven and let sit for 5 minutes, then toss meatballs in the franks sauce, return to the baking tray and bake 10 more minutes.
- Serve immediately, makes 36 meatballs, 1 serving is 3 meatballs
Notes
26 Comments
These look wonderful! Gonna try and make today! ThNks!
Hope you enjoy them 🙂
These look great, Kate. What is the dip? It looks good too.
Hi Donna, it is my zero point ranch dip, there should be a link to it in the opening write up 🙂
Can these be frozen and reheated?
yes absolutely 🙂
These were very tasty! Thanks for the recipe.
Glad you enjoyed them 🙂
What brand bread crumbs , points wise that we should buy to keep these low in points? Thanks
I think most are pretty similar and brands vary depending where you live, just scan a few maybe to compare
These are in the oven right now (making them for the second time). Do you have any other suggestions on what to eat them with??
Thank you!
You could make a wrap out of them or if you know of a good low point bun you could do a meatball sub, you could cut up and use on pizza, I guess you could really eat them anyway you like, no rules on that one 🙂
Do you think it’d work to switch out chicken for turkey? Taste and consistency wise. I happen to just have that on hand. Thanks!
Hi Julie, sorry for the late reply I was away, yes I think turkey would work ok
Have you tried cooking these in the air fryer?
No but they should work well in the air fryer
Have you made them without the hot sauce? I do not like spicy.
I made these tonight and they turned out sooo good! Definitely going to be a repeat!
Awesome, so glad you enjoyed them 🙂
I made half buffalo, and half teriyaki. They were so good! Great recipe – I am making them for Game day. And I made the. Zero point ranch. Can’t wait for the game!
Awesome, hope they were all a hit 🙂
If I’m doing the weight watchers turnaround program what points value for your recipes will I count towards my daily points? Is it the same as points plus?
Sorry I am not sure what you mean by the turnaround program?
Hi! Love this site! May i ask what brand of ground chicken you used for these? I’m having trouble finding one that is low enough in points to make it 1 point for 3 meatballs. I’m in Ontario, where abouts are you? 🙂
Hi Jen, so glad you are enjoying the recipes 🙂 Honestly I just buy what I can find, sometimes it’s not 99% but I just go with it, in my head my saying is 95% ground chicken is not why I am on WW haha, for those who want to add points for the ground chicken because they can’t find 99% FF they are more than welcome to build the recipe in the App to calculate the points
Thanks for the speedy reply, I like your method, I will go with that 😀