Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Meatballs

I was feeling creative this weekend and I wanted to come up with a new recipe that would be good to serve while watching football. I’ve had meatballs on the brain lately and whenever I think of football I think of Buffalo chicken, so I decided to combine the two.  I always make meatballs in the crockpot, and I figure pouring a bottle of wing sauce over these would keep them moist and help them suck up the Buffalo flavor. The meatballs are a mixture of everything you’d find on a plate of wings: chicken, carrots, celery and blue cheese. I thought they featured those flavors really well and were a perfect warm, hearty dish for cheering on your team from the couch.

I served these a la carte with a dish of light blue cheese dressing for drizzling and they went over really well. I think they’d also be great on a sub or served over pasta with some blue cheese dressing or light alfredo mixed in. Get creative and let me know how you serve them! To view your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site, click here!

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Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Meatballs

Prep Time: 15 minutes mins

Cook Time: 8 hours hrs

Total Time: 8 hours hrs 15 minutes mins

Calories: 82kcal

These Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Meatballs are hot, spicy, and perfect for game day!

Yield: 12 meatballs

Ingredients

• 1 lb ground chicken breast
• 1 medium carrot, chopped finely in a food processor (or shredded on the small side of a box grater)
• 1 medium stalk of celery, chopped finely in a food processor (or shredded on the small side of a box grater)
• ½ cup plain dried breadcrumbs
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons skim milk
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/3 cup crumbled blue cheese
• 12 oz bottle of Buffalo wing sauce, such as Frank’s Red Hot Buffalo Wings Sauce

Instructions

•  In a large bowl, mix together all ingredients except wing sauce until thoroughly combined. Use your hands to form the mixture into 12 equal sized balls.

  *My slow cooker has a pot that is meant to go from stovetop to slow cooker. If the pot for your crock pot is not stovetop safe, complete step one in a heavy pot on the stove and then transfer contents to crock pot for step two*
• Mist the inside of your pot with cooking spray and brown the meatballs on all sides on the stove top. Do not cook all the way through.
• Transfer pot (or contents of pot) back onto your crock pot and pour the wing sauce over the top. Stir meatballs to coat. Turn crock pot temperature to low and cover. Cook for 7-8 hours.

Notes

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Nutrition Information:

82 calories, 4 g carbs, 1 g sugars, 3 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 11 g protein, 1 g fiber (from myfitnesspal.com)

MyWW SmartPoints per (1 meatball) serving: (SP calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)

Green: 2 SmartPoints/ Blue: 1 SmartPoints/ Purple: 1 SmartPoints

Weight Watchers Points Plus:

2 per meatball (P+ calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)

Author: Emily Bites

Course: Appetizer, Main Course

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Crock Pot, Game Day Recipes, slow cooker, Weight Watchers, WW Recipes

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