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These Buffalo Chicken Meatball Sliders are a fun, flavor-packed appetizer made with Trader Joe’s Buffalo Style Chicken Meatballs, soft slider buns, melted provolone, and blue cheese dressing. They’re quick to make, crowd-friendly, and perfect for game day, parties, or busy weeknights when you want big flavor with minimal effort.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/4 cup Frank’s hot sauce
- 6 tablespoons salted butter, divided
- 1 package Trader Joe’s Buffalo-Style Chicken Meatballs, sliced in half
- 1 package Hawaiian sweet rolls (12 rolls)
- 1/4 cup blue cheese dressing (plus more for serving)
- 1 cup shredded lettuce
- 1 small tomato, thinly sliced
- 1/2 white onion, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
- 6 slices provolone cheese
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon chopped parsley
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Add Frank’s hot sauce and 2 tablespoons butter to a medium mixing bowl and microwave for 30-60 seconds until butter is melted. Whisk to combine.
- Cook chicken meatballs in Air Fryer at 400 degrees until heated through, about 4-6 minutes.
- Add meatballs to mixing bowl and toss with the Frank’s sauce until coated.
- Using a long serrated knife, cut Hawaiian rolls in half horizontally, separating the tops from the bottom.
- Place bottom of rolls in a 9×13 baking dish and brush with blue cheese dressing.
- Add four meatball halves to each slider. Brush meatballs with leftover Frank’s sauce if desired.
- Top meatballs with shredded lettuce, tomato, onion, crumbled blue cheese, and provolone. Cover with top sheet of rolls.
- In a small saucepan, melt remaining 4 tablespoons butter over medium-low heat. Add garlic and sauté until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in parsley and remove from heat.
- Brush the tops of rolls with garlic butter sauce.
- Bake until tops of rolls are golden-brown, crispy and cheese is melted, about 12-15 minutes.
- Brush again with garlic butter and cut into individual sliders before serving.
- Serve warm with blue cheese dressing, for dipping.
Notes
- If you don’t have an air fryer, you can warm meatballs in the microwave or oven according to package instructions.
- Taking the extra step to cut meatballs in half is worth it, IMO. It makes for an easier to grab, less messy slider. If you keep the meatballs whole, you may get a few runaway meatballs rolling off the sliders. For a cutting hack, place the meatballs the bottom of two plate and run a serrated knife along the middle of the meatballs, cutting them all at once.
- If you don’t like blue cheese, you can substitute with shredded mozzarella and Ranch dressing.
- The garlic parsley butter is a little extra but I love the color it gives the buns and the flavor oomph. It makes them extra crispy too.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Appetizer
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
