Blue Cheese Chicken Meatballs

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Total Time:
1 hr 10 min
Prep
40 min
Cook
30 min
Yield:
35 to 40 meatballs
Level:
Intermediate
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Ingredients

Meatballs:

Sauce:

  • 2 cups tomato juice
  • 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons hot sauce (recommended: Tabasco)
  • Pinch celery salt
  • Few grinds white pepper
  • Salt
  • 1/4 cup grapeseed oil

Directions

For the meatballs: Place the chicken thighs, eggs, celery salt, and white pepper in a food processor. Pulse until the meat is ground but still a little bit chunky. Do not make a smooth paste!

Transfer the chicken mixture to a bowl. Stir together the breadcrumbs and blue cheese until combined.

Fill a small bowl with water. To form the meatballs, wet your hands a little and shape the mixture into 1-inch balls. Lay the meatballs on a sheet tray.

Heat a large, deep pan over medium-high heat and add the oil to fill about 1/4-inch up the sides. Do not fill the pan completely with oil.

Pour the flour into a shallow dish and season with salt and pepper. Roll each meatball in the flour to give it a light coating.

When the oil is hot, add the meatballs and cook until golden brown and cooked through, about 10 minutes. Flip the meatballs halfway through cooking. You may have to cook them in batches if they don't fit in the pan, adding more oil if needed. Drain the cooked meatballs on a paper towel-lined plate.

For the sauce: Combine the tomato juice, rice wine vinegar, hot sauce, celery salt, white pepper, and salt in a large bowl. Whisk in the oil until well blended and slightly thickened.

For serving: Transfer half the meatballs to a large bowl. Pour some of the sauce over top, just enough to coat the meatballs. Gently toss the meatballs around to coat in the sauce. Using tongs, transfer the meatballs to serving plate and insert a toothpick. Repeat with remaining meatballs.

Pour the remaining sauce into a small bowl and serve as a dipping sauce.

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  • on March 09, 2011

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    These were really good!!! I did add more tabasco to the sauce for more of a kick and added more blue cheese as suggested by another reviewer. Next time I will try mixing half thigh meat and half breast meat. The leftovers were even better the next day. So maybe a perfect recipe for planning ahead of time and warming up in the oven.

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  • on February 06, 2011

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    My husband made these balls for a Superbowl Party....and they were a huge hit!! Everyone loved all the different flavors...very tasty!! We served them with sweet hot sauce and it was awesome!!

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  • on February 06, 2011

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    We liked them thou I wouldn't make a big fuss. I added more hot sauce to the sauce to bring up the kick, the men were complaining it was too mild. Also if I make them again I would probably increase the blue cheese by at least 50%.

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