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Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Meatball Sliders tasty amazing and perfect for any tailgate party.  Spicy wing sauce is mixed with cool ranch dressing and poured over these Buffalo chicken meatballs which are slow cooked and perfect for your tailgate party!   

What’s more tailgate worthy than Buffalo chicken?  Maybe brats?  But wings and games are synonymous!  We order boneless wings all the time.  The hubs has his wing sauce, that I can dip into if I want,  However, I have the blue cheese sauce that I dip into.  Sometimes, I double dip, but shhh…., don’t tell anyone.

For me, blue cheese and wing sauce go hand in hand, so when I made these meatballs, I needed to make a sauce with all the flavor of blue cheese dressing.  So, you see that blue cheese aioli in the corner?  Oh yeah, baby!  It’s delicious blue cheese flavor in mayonnaise form for the sliders.

*confession*

Yes, this should be sliders, but I have difficulty getting the hubs to do the slider thing.  He looks at me like, “Huh?  Mini sammies?  What am I supposed to do with these?  Dinner is not meant for appetizer food”  So, we had them as subs, but you can easily top a mini bun with one meatball to serve them as sliders OR several meatballs to serve as subs, as I have here.

Oh yeah, baby.  Just look at that meatball!!  The spicy sauce mixed with cool ranch and topped with delicious blue cheese.  These are so tasty!!  They also have all the flavor of chicken wings without the bones.  You will still need napkins or maybe a towel or a bib?  They’re saucy and certainly mess.  Don’t say I didn’t warn ya!

Mmmmm.   The meatballs by themselves are tasty!  Not to mention super easy!!  Meatballs are usually easy, but these are even easier.  You simply combine some chicken with some onions, blue cheese, celery, and then wing sauce together.  Voila!  Meatballs are born.  They tasted like Buffalo wings even without the sauce.  You could even precook them in the oven and then simmer them in the sauce to reheat them.  This recipe is so versatile.  You’re going to love it!

A little history about me.  I lived in Rochester, NY for about five years.  There was a restaurant called Zebb’s.  They had the most DELICIOUS fish on Friday.  Honestly, it was a half a haddock on a plate with some fries.  Yeah.  No wonder I gained and INSANE amount of weight college.

Anyway.

They also mixed their wing sauce with ranch dressing.  I LOVE this idea and it tasted delicious.  Because of this, I have mixed the wing sauce with ranch dressing in this slow cooker recipe.  It’s also why, when I make Buffalo anything, I usually mix the two sauces together.

Therefore, by combining the two, it cuts the heat of the wing sauce and adds some delicious flavor that you wouldn’t expect.  Not a fan of ranch?  Okay.  Use blue cheese or your other favorite dressing to use in this recipe.  Just don’t skimp on the blue cheese.  It truly does make the dish.

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Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Meatball Sliders with Blue Cheese Aioli

Cook Time: 8 hours

Total Time: 8 hours

Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Meatball Sliders tasty amazing and perfect for any tailgate party. Spicy wing sauce is mixed with cool ranch dressing and poured over these Buffalo chicken meatballs which are slow cooked and perfect for your tailgate party!

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Ingredients

• 2 pounds ground chicken breast
• 1 1/2 cups fat free blue cheese crumbles, divided
• 1/4 cup diced celery
• 1/4 cup diced onion
• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons buffalo wing sauce
• 1 cup fat free ranch dressing
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon ranch dressing
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
• 1/2 teaspoon celery seed
• pinch cayenne pepper
• 2 cloves garlic
• 16 dinner rolls

Instructions

1. Combine the ground chicken with 1/4 cup blue cheese, 1/4 cup diced celery, 1/4 cup diced onion and 2 tablespoons buffalo wing sauce. Form into 1 to 1 1/2 inch meatballs and place in the liner of a slow cooker coated with cooking spray.
2. Combine 1 cup buffalo wing sauce with 1 cup ranch dressing and pour over the meatballs. Cook on low 8 to 10 hours or until the meatballs are cooked through.
3. Put the mayonnaise in the bowl of a food processor with the garlic cloves. Pulse a few times to chop the garlic. Add 1/2 cup of blue cheese, 1 tablespoon ranch dressing, garlic salt, celery seed, and cayenne pepper. Process until smooth.
4. Lightly toast each bun. Spread lightly with the aioli and top with 1 meatball. Drizzle with the wing sauce and garnish with remaining blue cheese.

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