What if I can’t find ground chicken?

No problem! You can make your own with a meat grinder or food processor. If you have a meat grinder, place your chicken or turkey through it according to the instructions. No meat grinder ( hand raised here!) ? Cut your meat into pieces and put in a food processor. Process with the steel blade until the meat is ground to desired consistency.

What is the best sauce to use?

Use your favorite sauce here. We use Frank’s Buffalo Sauce but there are MANY good sauces that would work great with this recipe. Make your own for extra points!

Can I use something besides blue cheese?

If you aren't a huge fan of blue cheese, reduce the amount or substitute white cheddar, smoked gruyere, even feta would be good. Leave the cheese out of the chicken mixture completely and just top the chicken patty with a cheese slice of your choice the last 30-60 seconds of cooking.

Buffalo Chicken Mini Burgers

Description

These Buffalo Chicken Mini Burgers combine the best of all things; chicken, buffalo sauce, bite sized, and food on a stick! Definitely a WOW! item on your table plus #adorable.

Ingredients

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1 pound ground chicken
2/3 cup buffalo sauce (we used Frank’s), divided
2 Tablespoon chopped green onion
4 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
2 Tablespoon panko bread crumbs
salt and pepper
24-30 mini burger buns Make your own with this recipe.
1 English cucumber, peeled and sliced into thin rounds
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Instructions

In a medium bowl combine ground chicken, 1/3 cup buffalo sauce, green onion, blue cheese, panko bread crumbs, salt and pepper.
Mix JUST until combined. You don’t want to over mix the meat or break down the cheese too much.
Using a small cookie scoop (2 teaspoon), make the chicken mixture into meatballs.
Place on a lined cookie sheet about 1 inch apart.
Press down with your fingers to form small patties.
Bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 12-18 minutes
Remove from oven.

ASSEMBLY

We like to make this in a small assembly line. Feel free to make them one at a time or follow the directions below to make them ‘assembly style’.

Set the buns (both tops and bottoms together) in two rows on a cookie sheet. Leave about 3 inches between the rows.
Remove the tops and place next to the bottoms in the space between the rows.
Put a drop or two of Buffalo sauce on the top and bottom of each bun.
Place a warm chicken buffalo burger on the bottom bun. Add a slice of cucumber
Put the top bun on top of the cucumber slices and pierce the entire mini burger with a pick.
Continue with the other burgers.

Notes

Cheese. You want the blue cheese to be in fairly small pieces since these are mini burgers. Pieces that are too large will affect the ratio of cheese to meat in the burger. If you are not a fan of blue cheese, reduce the amount or substitute white cheddar, smoked gruyere, or feta. Leave the cheese out of the chicken mixture completely and just top the patties with a slice of your favorite cheese the last 30-60 seconds of cooking.

Chicken. If you can’t find ground chicken in your local grocery store, you can grind your own. Cut a chicken breast into pieces about 1” square. Place in a food processor with the steel blade and process until ground. Don’t over-grind as you still want some texture to the meat. You can also use ground turkey in this recipe.

Riffs. Substitute some thin sliced celery, celery slaw, or blue cheese slaw for the sliced cucumber. Love blue cheese - add some additional blue cheese sprinkles to the top of the patties the last 30 seconds of baking.

Pro Tip. After adding the buffalo sauce to the chicken mixture, place the remaining sauce in a squeeze bottle, with a cap. This makes it easier to add the sauce to the buns when assembling your mini burgers!

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Assembly Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Category: Appetizer
Method: Baking
Cuisine: American

Nutrition

Serving Size: 1 burger
Calories: 67
Sugar: 0.5 g
Sodium: 210.3 mg
Fat: 3.3 g
Carbohydrates: 4.3 g
Protein: 5 g
Cholesterol: 24.1 mg