These cupcakes are a fun savory dish that you can serve for dinner or easily pack for a lunch. Ground chicken is mixed with celery and onion, stuffed with blue cheese, and baked with a spread of buffalo sauce over the top.
The ground chicken is kept moist thanks to the use of gelatin. These cupcakes are everything you’d want from mini meatloaves. Yet even better thanks to the creamy blue cheese and spicy buffalo sauce.
The Preparation
Buffalo Sauce:
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 teaspoon fresh garlic, minced
- 1/2 cup hot sauce, like Frank's
- 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- salt and pepper, to taste
Chicken Meatloaf:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 medium onion, diced
- 1/2 cup celery, minced
- 16 ounces ground chicken
- 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
- 2 teaspoons fresh garlic, minced
- 2 ounces pork rinds, crushed
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 large egg
- 2 tablespoons chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- 1/4 teaspoon celery seed
- 2 ounces blue cheese
- 3 tablespoons butter
- cooking spray, as needed
The Execution
1. Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add the garlic and cook for about a minute. Add hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Whisk to combine then simmer for a bit before setting aside.
2. Heat the olive oil for the chicken in a skillet over medium heat. Add the onion, celery, and garlic. Cook until softened then set aside to cool.
3. Preheat oven to 375°F. Whisk eggs and chicken stock in a medium bowl. Add the gelatin then allow to bloom for 5 minutes.
4. Add chicken, Worcestershire sauce, celery seed, pork rinds, salt, pepper, and 1/4 of the prepared wing sauce to the bowl with the onion mixture. Add the eggs then mix to combine.
5. Spray the compartments of a cupcake tin with cooking spray. Add about 2 tablespoons of meatloaf mixture per well, then press a space into the center of each one for the fillings. Add blue cheese and top with a slice of butter. Top with the remaining meat and brush the wing sauce on top. Transfer the tray to the oven and bake. Brush more sauce on top every ten minutes, baking for 25 minutes.
This makes a total of 6 servings of Buffalo Chicken Meatloaf Cupcakes. Each serving comes out to be 342 calories, 26.9g fats, 2.2g net carbs, and 22.1g protein.
| NUTRITION | CALORIES | FAT | CARBS | FIBER | NET CARBS | PROTEIN |
| 3 tablespoon butter | 305 | 34.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |
| 1 teaspoon fresh garlic | 4 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 |
| 1/2 cup hot sauce | 13 | 0.4 | 2 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 0.6 |
| 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce | 4 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 |
| 1 tablespoon white vinegar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| — salt and pepper | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 tablespoon olive oil | 119 | 13.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1/2 medium onion | 19 | 0.1 | 4.4 | 0.8 | 3.6 | 0.6 |
| 1/2 cup celery | 12 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 1 | 0.5 |
| 16 ounce ground chicken | 649 | 36.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 79.1 |
| 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce | 4 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 |
| 2 teaspoon fresh garlic | 8 | 0 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 0.4 |
| 2 ounce pork rinds | 324 | 20.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30.8 |
| — salt and pepper | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 large egg | 79 | 5.2 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.4 | 6.9 |
| 2 tablespoon chicken broth | 2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| 1/2 teaspoon unflavored gelatin | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1/4 teaspoon celery seed | 2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| 2 ounce blue cheese | 200 | 16.3 | 1.3 | 0 | 1.3 | 12.1 |
| 3 tablespoon butter | 305 | 34.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |
| — cooking spray | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 2056 | 161.9 | 15.8 | 2.6 | 13.2 | 133.2 |
| Per Serving (/6) | 343 | 27 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 22.2 |
Buffalo Chicken Meatloaf Cupcakes
Ingredients
Buffalo Sauce
- 3 tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon fresh garlic minced
- ½ cup hot sauce like Frank's
- 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- salt and pepper to taste
Chicken Meatloaf
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ medium onion diced
- ½ cup celery minced
- 16 ounce ground chicken
- 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
- 2 teaspoon fresh garlic minced
- 2 ounce pork rinds crushed
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 large egg
- 2 tablespoon chicken broth
- ½ teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- ¼ teaspoon celery seed
- 2 ounce blue cheese
- 3 tablespoon butter
- cooking spray as needed
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add the garlic and cook for about a minute. Add hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Whisk to combine then simmer for a bit before setting aside.
- Heat the olive oil for the chicken in a skillet over medium heat. Add the onion, celery, and garlic. Cook until softened then set aside to cool.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Whisk eggs and chicken stock in a medium bowl. Add the gelatin then allow it to bloom for 5 minutes.
- Add chicken, Worcestershire sauce, celery seed, pork rinds, salt, pepper, and 1/4 of the prepared buffalo sauce to the bowl with the onion mixture. Add the eggs then mix to combine.
- Spray the compartments of a cupcake tin with cooking spray. Add about 2 tablespoons of meatloaf mixture per well, then press a space into the center of each one for the fillings. Add blue cheese and top with a slice of butter.
- Top with the remaining meat and brush the wing sauce on top. Transfer the tray to the oven and bake. Brush more sauce on top every ten minutes, baking for 25 minutes.
- Let cool for a few minutes and serve.
Not clear on the sauce. Step 4 says to add the prepared sauce then step 5 says to brush the sauce on top and add every 10 minutes…. Which one is it? Supposed to split the sauce? Or in step 5 are they talking just the hot sauce from the bottle on top?
Hi Adam, just add 1/4 cup of the prepared wing sauce to the meat then use the rest of it to brush on top. 🙂
What brand of Worcestershire do you recommend in order to remain keto?
I just use Lea and Perrins. It has a small amount of sugar in it but we use a pretty insignificant amount of it over all of the servings. If you want a more natural Worcestershire sauce, you can find many paleo-friendly recipes online.
I loved these. Stuffed half with mozzarella and half with blue cheese thinking my son and wife would eat the mozzarella. NOT. They said brushing the top with the wing sauce completely made it way too hot. Me, I loved it. I put sour cream and ranch dressing (second time) on top and it was delicious! Next time I won’t brush the tops with the sauce.
If I’m not a fan of buffalo sauce, how can I replace it? Thank you
Buffalo sauce is typically a mix of cayenne pepper and vinegar. I think the vinegar works well to balance the other flavors in the dish, so any vinegar based sauce should work. If you’re not a fan – any low carb sauce in general should work as a sub. Just make sure to double check that the sauce fits within your macros in context of the recipe.