Who doesn’t love hot wings?? I surely do, but how about taking a standard recipe and making things a little interesting??
My beaux is a huge football fan, HUGE. So Sundays, Mondays & some Thursdays in the fall are all dedicated to America’s past time. Unfortunately football isn’t my thing, so I’ve decided that my role on game day is going to be chief snack maker.
I figured a hot wing turned meatball, served with a blue cheese dipping sauce has no choice but to be a winner.
What You Need:
1 lb ground chicken
2 tspn celery salt
2 tspn garlic powder
1/4 cup hot sauce(I used Cholula)
1/4 cup chopped scallions
3/4 cup grated carrots
1 egg
1/2 cup plain bread crumbs
Hot Sauce Wash:
1/4 cup hot sauce
2 tbpn butter
Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce:
4 oz. crumbled blue cheese
1/3 cup 0% greek yogurt
1/3 cup cream
1/8 cup whole milk
1 tspn Worcestershire sauce
1 tspn hot sauce
How To:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Add the grated scallions and carrots to a skillet and saute until tender; about 3-5 minutes. Set aside to cool. Put the ground chicken in a bowl with the celery salt, garlic powder, hot sauce, carrot and scallion mixture, egg and breadcrumbs. Mix together with your hands. Feel free to add breadcrumbs if the appears to wet; you want to be able to form a ball and have it stick together. 
Once the right consistency is achieved, Form the meatballs by rolling them between your palms. Set aside on a baking sheet while you heat a tablespoon of oil in a skillet. Brown the meatballs a batch at a time until all are done and place them back on a foil covered baking sheet. Cover the meatballs with another piece of foil and pop in the oven. Set the timer for 20 minutes.
While the meatballs cook, melt 2 tablespoons of butter and mix with 1/4 cup of hot sauce. After 10 minutes, remove the foil from the meatballs and brush them with the hot sauce butter mixture. Let the meatballs cook for the remaining 10 minutes.
While those finish up, combine the blue cheese, scallions, cream, yogurt, milk, Worcestershire and hot sauce in a blender or food processor. Pulse until smooth.
The moment I tasted these meatballs, my eyes shot wide open and I exclaimed to no one in particular, “these taste JUST like hot wings!!”. They’re moist, flavorful and absolutely perfect. The process of browning, covering and then uncovering while they cook, is essential to getting meatballs that are cooked through yet still moist but with a slight crunch.
And the blue cheese sauce? Heavenly. You get that pungent bite of the blue cheese and yogurt, paired with the creaminess of the milk and this sauce quickly becomes not only a perfect match for these meatballs but a great dipping sauce for pretty much anything that can be dipped. I’d suggest using it as a veggie dip as well!
The boys(and really everyone) are sure to be impressed when you bring these to the next game party!
@LifeandDimSum
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