Bisquick Chicken Sausage Balls
These easy, lightened up Bisquick Chicken Sausage Balls are perfect as an appetizer, snack, game day finger food, or even for breakfast! If you haven’t made these before, I’d say they’re kind of like a cross between a meatball and a cheesy, fluffy biscuit. My whole family loves them, and they’re easy to make for a party or to munch on while watching football. Plus, any leftovers make a tasty breakfast the next morning! Not only are these Bisquick Chicken Sausage Balls simple to make and tasty to eat, each one is just 77 calories or 2 WW Point on Weight Watchers! To view your current WW Points for this recipe and track it in the WW app, click here!
Here’s a look at the Bisquick Chicken Sausage Balls before baking:
Here’s a look at them once they’re baked (check out the yummy cheese bubbling out):
Recipe Notes
- Sausage: Most recipes for these types of sausage balls use pork sausage, but I lightened them up and made them more WW-friendly by adding sausage seasonings to ground chicken. Don’t be intimidated to do this extra step, it only takes a couple minutes to measure out a few seasonings and stir them in. The results are worth it!
- Ground Chicken: I used ground chicken for this recipe, but you can easily substitute ground turkey if that’s what you have on hand. I highly recommend using a ground chicken or turkey that’s around 92-93% lean rather than an extra lean breast-meat-only kind that’s 98-99% lean. Your sausage balls will be more moist and tasty (and still lightened up) with the higher fat percentage.
- Bisquick: I used the Bisquick Heart Smart variety, which has a bit less fat than the original Bisquick baking mix. If you have the original Bisquick on hand, you can absolutely use that instead. I don’t believe it even changes the WW Points.
- Cheese: I used Sharp Cheddar Cheese made with 2% Milk, which tasted great! If you want to change it up and use a different variety of shredded cheese, you certainly can. I used less cheese than similar recipes out there, but I think you’ll find it’s just enough!
- Rolling the Balls: The meat/dough mixture can be a bit sticky, but I found that spraying my hands with a bit of cooking spray and rubbing them together before rolling the balls helped tremendously!
- Freezing/Storing: You can definitely make these ahead and then freeze them, either before or after baking. With cooked leftovers or defrosted cooked balls, I reheated them in my air fryer at 325 degrees for 5-6 minutes.
- Serving Ideas: I like to eat these Bisquick Chicken Sausage Balls straight up, but they’re also tasty with a dipping sauce! Ranch dressing, honey mustard, or barbecue sauce would all be good options.
More Tasty Lightened Up Finger Foods
Looking for more tasty lightened up finger foods like these Bisquick Chicken Sausage Balls? Check out my Taco Dip Bites, Tomato and Goat Cheese Bruschetta, Caprese Wonton Bites, Goat Cheese Mushroom Tartlets, Olive Tapenade Goat Cheese Crostini, Ham and Cheese Twists, Loaded Potato Rounds, Cheesy Apple Walnut Bruschetta, Buffalo Chicken Taquitos, Pepperoni Pull Apart Muffins, Caprese Tarts, Cheesy Spinach Pinwheels, Enchilada Cheese Rolls, Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts, Pizza Logs and many more in the Appetizers section of my recipe index!
Bisquick Chicken Sausage Balls
Ingredients
- 1 lb lean ground chicken or ground turkey, (use 92-93% lean)
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper
- ¼ teaspoon fennel seeds
- 2 ½ cups Bisquick Heart Smart Baking Mix, (or original Bisquick baking mix)
- ⅜ cup skim milk, (measure as 1/3 cup + 1 tablespoon)
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley
- 8 oz shredded 2% milk sharp cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the ground chicken, paprika, salt, black pepper, garlic powder, crushed red pepper, and fennel seeds and stir with a fork or mush together with clean hands until thoroughly combined. Add the Bisquick, milk, parsley, and shredded cheese and stir together with a spoon (or you can use an electric mixer) until well combined.
- Divide the meat mixture into 32 even piles and roll each one into a ball (it helps if you spray your palms with cooking spray before rolling). Each ball is roughly two tablespoons if you’d rather do it that way. Place the balls a bit apart on the prepared baking sheet and bake for 20-24 minutes until cooked through.
Notes
77 calories, 7 g carbs, 1 g sugars, 3 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 5 g protein, 0 g fiber, 139 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com) Weight Watchers Points Plus:
2 per piece (P+ calculated using a WWPP calculator an the nutrition information provided)
Looks like there is corn in the sausage balls?
Look odd
No corn! The cheddar cheese bubbles out and makes them a little bumpy 🙂
Absolutely love these! I made them with 94% lean ground turkey with a side of steamed broccoli as a meal and they did not disappoint! Thank you for the incredible recipe.
These were so delicious! My kiddos loved them too! Great meal prep and handheld recipe. 🙂