Spicy Chicken Meatballs

If you like spice, you are going to love this! I made these as an appetizer, but you could certainly make them a little bigger for a main course. There is a lot of spice in the meatball as well as the dipping sauce. I will caution you if you don’t like spice this recipe is not for you! This would be a great game day appetizer for your spice loving friends!

INGREDIENTS
1 pound ground chicken
1 teaspoon garlic powder
2 teaspoons chili powder
Salt
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
3 Tablespoons of honey
1 teaspoon cider vinegar
Cooking spray

DIPPING SAUCE
1/4 cup ranch dressing
1 Tablespoon buffalo wing sauce (I used Frank’s)
2 Tablespoons honey

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with heavy duty foil and spray lightly with cooking spray.  In a large bowl combine the ground chicken, garlic powder, chili powder, salt, cumin, paprika, and crushed red pepper flakes. Mix well until all of the spices are combined throughout the ground chicken. Form the chicken into uniform balls and place on a single layer on your prepared baking sheet. Continue making the meatballs until you have used all of the chicken mixture.  Bake the meatballs in your preheated oven for 15 minutes.  While the meatballs are cooking combine the honey and cider vinegar, mixing well. After the first 15 minutes of cooking brush the honey mixture onto each of the meatballs coating them generously until all of the honey mixture is gone. Continue baking for another 10-15 minutes until the meatballs are cooked all the way through.

For the sauce, simply combine the ranch dressing, buffalo sauce and the honey mixing well. Refrigerate sauce until ready to serve.  Remove meatballs from oven, serve warm along with the dipping sauce.

Enjoy!

This recipe can be found at www.realhousemoms.com