Recipe: Buffalo Wild Wings or Meatballs

In 2009, I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease (which I was then undiagnosed with a year later) and that meant that I could no longer go to Buffalo Wild Wings (which, to be fair, I had only gone to a few times, but I still loved how the sauce glazed on the chicken). I desperately wanted something like it. As I started cooking more, I saw what would happen to a sauce in the oven. If it was put on meat, it started looking like Buffalo Wild Wings.

Therefore, I decided to try something, my mom had some frozen gluten free chicken nuggets and I got some of the BBQ sauce we were using and threw the BBQ sauce onto the chicken nuggets and then put them into the oven. Within 10 minutes, there was an amazing smell coming out of the oven. I kept them in there for another 10 minutes, and thus, Buffalo Wild Wings were created.

With this recipe, you can use pretty much any kind of meat you want. If you are doing meatballs, you can Buffalo Wild Wing them. Yes, that is right, I just made Buffalo Wild Wing into a verb because I can. Here’s how you do that.

There are two different times depending on whether you use thawed or frozen meatballs/nuggets/tenders. There is also a simplified vs. complex one where the difference is rolling the meat in the BBQ sauce vs. just pouring a bit on top of the meat.

A note on Sugar Free BBQ Sauce: If you use sugar free BBQ sauce, you need to know that it won’t glaze onto the meat. It will still taste amazing, but it won’t look glossy or feel sticky on the meat. This is because sugar melts into a caramel thickness that becomes sticky.

Recipe

Ingredients

• Frozen, thawed, or just-out-of-the-oven cooked meatballs or chicken nuggets/tenders
• A bunch of BBQ sauce of your choice

Directions Complex

1. If using uncooked chicken nuggets/tenders/meatballs, cook them according to the instructions on the package. Take out.
2. Set the oven to 350°
3. Pour the BBQ sauce into a small bowl (a cereal bowl works) and throw one piece of meat into the sauce, making sure to coat it completely in BBQ sauce.
4. Place the meat onto a baking sheet.
5. Follow steps 3 & 4 until all of the meat is coated.
6. Place the baking sheet into the oven and cook for 20 minutes (if frozen) or 10 minutes (if thawed)

Directions Simple

1. If using uncooked chicken nuggets/tenders/meatballs, cook them according to the instructions on the package. Take out.
2. Set the oven to 350°
3. Pour about a tablespoon of BBQ sauce on top of each meatball, more or less just to coat the top of it.
4. Place the baking sheet into the oven and cook for 20 minutes (if frozen) or 10 minutes (if thawed)