Best Keto BBQ Chicken Meatballs
Looking for a snack or appetizer to feed a group? How about a Keto Superbowl appetizer or potluck dish? Make these Keto barbecue chicken meatballs and you’ll be a winner for sure. These bite-sized chicken meatballs are cooked for hours in a homemade barbecue sauce. The sauce is a little thinner than barbecue sauce that comes from a bottle since there’s less sugar in it, but it perfectly coats each meatball for a low-mess group snack. You can serve the meatballs warm with toothpicks or tiny serving forks!
How to Make It
Step 1
Make the barbecue sauce by combining beef broth, tomato sauce, worcestershire, red wine vinegar, tapioca flour, brown sugar substitute, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, ground ginger, ground clove, and ground nutmeg in a saucepan. Whisk the ingredients together over medium heat while the sauce simmers and reduces. Cook until the sauce can leave a thin, glossy layer on the back of a metal spoon.
Step 2
Leave the barbecue sauce aside to cool and thicken a little more. Add ground chicken, mayonnaise, ground flax, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, onion powder, and parsley to a large mixing bowl. Mix the ingredients together to make the meatball mixture, then leave the mixture aside for 5 minutes to rest and thicken as well.
Step 3
Ladle some of the barbecue sauce in the bottom of a crockpot – enough to coat the bottom in a thin layer. Next, form the chicken mixture into 2-tablespoon meatballs. Place each meatball in the bottom of the crockpot. Once all the meatballs are formed in the crockpot, pour the remaining barbecue sauce over the meatballs.
Step 4
Cook the barbecue meatballs in your crockpot at high heat for 4 hours. You may cook for longer to thicken the barbecue sauce more at your discretion. Serve the meatballs with toothpicks straight from the crockpot or in a serving bowl.
Ingredients
- Beef broth
0.75 cup
- Tomato sauce
4 fl oz
- Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp
- Red wine vinegar
1 tsp
- Tapioca Flour
1.5 tsp
- Brown Sugar Replacement
1 tbsp
- Salt
0.5 tsp
- Black pepper
0.25 tsp
- Garlic powder
0.13 tsp
- Onion powder
0.25 tsp
- Ginger, ground
0.13 tsp
- Cloves, ground
0.13 tsp
- Nutmeg Ground
0.13 tsp
- Ground chicken meat
1 lb
- Mayonnaise
2 tbsp
- Flaxseed / Linseed (Powder / Ground / Milled)
2 tsp
- Salt
0.5 tsp
- Black pepper
0.25 tsp
- Italian seasoning
0.25 tsp
- Onion powder
0.25 tsp
- Parsley, dried
1 tsp