This turned out way better than I thought it would. I am not quite “just in time” for game day. Although, if you went to the store right now, you could probably make it in time for the end of the game. Or, you could plan to make it next month for March Madness. Or, you could just make it on any given day just for fun.
I have thought about this recipe, on and off, for a while now and I finally got to it. I have seen so many of these types of recipes over the last year. I will mention a few I personally thought were notable at the end of this post. I’m sure I have missed many but the food blog word is so incredibly expansive! I find new, and incredibly well done, food blogs all of the time. It makes me feel so small, and I have to remind myself that I do this for fun and ultimately to write a cookbook.
Stuffed, Buffalo Chicken, Pull Apart/Monkey Bread
Ingredients:
-1 large carrot (peeled and diced small)
-1 stalk celery (washed and diced small)
-4 Tbsp. + 1 Tbsp. butter
-S & P
-18 oz. mild Italian chicken sausage (castings removed)
– ¼ c. crumbled blue cheese
-1 tsp. onion powder
-1 tsp. cumin
– ½ tsp. pepper
– two 16.3 oz. packages Pillsbury Grand’s Original biscuits
– ½ c. Frank’s Red Hot original hot sauce
-cooking spray
Preheat your oven to 400° F. Sauté carrot and celery in 1 Tbsp. butter for ~5 minutes (just until it barely begins to soften). In a medium mixing bowl combine carrots and celery, chicken, blue cheese, onion powder, cumin, and pepper. Mix until all ingredients are well combined. With a mini (ice cream type) scoop form as many mini meatballs as you have meat filling for. I ended up with about 24. Place mini meatballs on a parchment lined cookie sheet and bake them for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and place on paper towels to drain.
Meanwhile heat Franks hot sauce in microwave in medium sized bowl add 4 Tbsp. butter and stir until butter melts and is well incorporated. Coat a Bundt cake pan with cooking spray. Pop open rolls. There are 8 rolls in each package. Split each roll in two horizontally. They are layered so they actually come apart pretty easily. Depending on how may meatballs you end up with, you will probably have leftover dough.
To assemble, place a meatball in the center of one roll half. Close dough around the meatball and seal (pinching dough together) as best you can. Dip dough covered meatball in prepared hot sauce and roll around to coat. Transfer to prepared Bundt pan. Repeat with all meatballs. Place filled Bundt pan in oven and bake at 350° F for 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven. Place a plate over the hot bread in the bunt pan and flip over onto the plate. Bread should fall right out onto the plate with no problem.
Serve with blue cheese and/or ranch dressing for dipping.
EAT right away!!!
Other Great Monkey/Pull-Apart Bread Recipes:
you had me at ‘blue cheese’
I just found your site…. how do you not have a million followers? This food is a heart attack waiting to happen… I LOVE IT. My husband and I are drooling and laughing at all of these strange combinations. I cannot believe how you put donuts into a cheesecake! You are a very creative chef!
You are so sweet! Thank you!
I haven’t tried making buffalo chicken monkey bread yet but I’m intrigued that you use chicken sausage rather than shredded chicken. Doesn’t that alter the flavor?
I actually thought it made the flavor better. But, just use plain ground chicken if you’re worried. Thanks for stopping by!!!