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Blue cheese stuffed buffalo chicken meatballs

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  • 2 cup leftover fried chicken
  • ½ cup chicken skin
Process the chicken and chicken skin in a food processor until as finely ground as it will go.
Ground chicken meatball mix
  • ½ cup buttermilk
  • 1 whole egg
  • grated red onion
  • grated garlic
  • ⅓ cup Frank's Red Hot
Beat buttermilk, one egg, grated red onion, grated garlic and Frank's Red Hot together with a fork.
  • ½ cup breadcrumbs
Pour into the ground chicken, add the breadcrumbs and mix by hand to a meatball consistency, neither too wet nor too dry.
  • blue cheese
Form into patties, deposit a few crumbles of blue cheese in each, then encase the cheese in the meat and roll into balls.
  • all-purpose flour
  • 2 whole egg
  • panko breadcrumbs
Set up a three-stage breading station of flour, two beaten eggs and panko; bread each ball using the wet hand dry hand technique.
  • 1 quart vegetable oil
Heat one quart of vegetable oil to 350F and fry the balls about seven minutes, flipping frequently, until golden brown and crisp.
Drain on a wire rack and hold warm in a low oven.
  • butter
  • Frank's Red Hot
Whisk equal parts butter and Frank's Red Hot into a buffalo sauce.
  • celery greens
Plate on three pools of sauce and garnish with a leaf of celery greens.
Buffalo sauce and plating