20 Buffalo Chicken Recipes to Spice Up Your Game-Day Menu
Bring on the heat with wraps, wings, dips, and more!
Get ready for a saucy, spicy, and marvelously messy time! If you're the type to add a dash of hot sauce to every dish, you're sure to have the hots for these buffalo chicken recipes. Of course, Ree Drummond's buffalo chicken wings are the ultimate way to embrace that bold buffalo flavor (especially when they're on your starting lineup of game-day foods), but the tangy-yet-fiery sauce can coat just about anything, from sliders and wraps to pasta recipes like mac and cheese. With a creamy texture and a savory zing that packs a major punch, these zesty ideas will be obvious winners among all the other classic tailgate foods—and they'll score big points at any Super Bowl party!
If you're looking for a delicious buffalo-flavored recipe that's quick, portable, and crowd-pleasing, turn up the heat with a three-ingredient buffalo chicken party dip or serve up some buffalo chicken meatballs. For something a little heartier, try buffalo chicken sloppy joes, which put a unique spin on the nostalgic comfort-food dish. (Plus, you can prep the filling ahead of time and warm it back up in a slow cooker!) You'll also find vegetarian recipes that offer all the addicting flavor of buffalo sauce without the meat, such as crispy cauliflower sandwiches. Whatever you decide, don't forget to grab the ranch dressing or blue cheese and slice up some celery stalks and carrot sticks!
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Buffalo Wings
We'd be remiss not to include the quintessential buffalo chicken recipe: buffalo wings! The wings are fried in oil and doused in a homemade buffalo sauce featuring hot sauce and butter, resulting in a crispy, saucy snack.
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3-Ingredient Buffalo Dip
With just three ingredients, this buffalo chicken dip is perfect for hosting, especially if you opt for store-bought chicken salad and premade buffalo sauce. With so much creaminess and immense flavor, this appetizer will win everyone over!
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Buffalo Chickpea Sandwiches
If you’re searching for something a little more filling, sandwiches loaded with buffalo sauce fit the bill. Instead of chicken, though, this recipe swaps in chickpeas for a vegetarian-friendly source of protein that even meat-eaters will find themselves craving!
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Buffalo Mac and Cheese
Instead of dousing your plain mac and cheese in hot sauce after it's done, infuse the whole dish with spice as it cooks. A hybrid of two top comfort foods—mac and cheese and buffalo chicken dip—this dish is chock full of all your favorite flavors in one bowl. Think tangy buffalo sauce, ranch dressing, and shredded rotisserie chicken in every bite.
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Air Fryer Wings
These wings come out just as crispy as the traditional frying method, but without the hassle of heating up a pot of oil. After cooking them in the air fryer, simply toss them in your favorite buffalo sauce!
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Buffalo Chicken Pasta
When your game day and carb cravings hit at once, whip up a pan of buffalo chicken pasta. Like the fan-favorite dip, it's spicy, creamy, and super saucy. Don't forget to garnish your bowl with blue cheese and celery for a touch of freshness!
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Buffalo Chicken Meatballs
These spicy, tangy chicken meatballs can be served for dinner or a game day snack. Pair them with a crisp cucumber salad tossed in homemade ranch dressing to offer a cool, crunchy contrast to the bold buffalo sauce.
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Crock-Pot Buffalo Chicken Dip
This buffalo chicken dip scores high for being saucy, creamy, and incredibly easy to make. Just throw everything into the slow cooker and then kick back and enjoy the game!
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Pull-Apart Buffalo Chicken Sliders
These hearty sliders will feed a crowd: Each bite-sized sandwich is filled with saucy ground chicken, monterey jack, and tangy blue cheese.
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Buffalo Chicken Wrap
This quick and easy wrap is perfect for lunch, dinner, or even a post-football-practice snack. You'll love the addition of crunchy veggies, like shredded carrots and thinly sliced celery.
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Buffalo Chicken Sloppy Joes
One taste of these messy sandwiches, and you'll never make sloppy joes any other way! The best part is you can make the filling ahead of time and reheat it in a slow cooker.
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Buffalo Cauliflower Sandwiches
Guess what? There's no actual chicken on this sandwich. Instead, it's made with cauliflower! Fried and doused in buffalo sauce, this scrumptious cauliflower will surely win you over.
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Easy Buffalo Chicken Dip
All the spicy flavor of buffalo chicken in one creamy, cheesy dip. It's an appetizer that will disappear as soon as it hits the table.
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Buffalo Chicken with Blue Cheese Salad
Using skin-on, bone-in chicken pieces give this weeknight dinner a ton of flavor. If you happen to have leftover chicken, just shred it to use as a fun salad topping for lunch the next day.
Buffalo Chicken French Bread Pizza
This creative mash-up combines two tailgate favorites: pizza and buffalo chicken! It's fun to eat while watching the big game.
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Homemade Chicken Burgers
These juicy, full-of-flavor chicken burgers are a nice departure from regular beef burgers. Feel free to pile on the toppings like buffalo sauce and blue cheese crumbles for an extra boost of spice and tang.
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Buffalo Chicken Baked Potatoes
Using a rotisserie chicken makes this weeknight meal even easier. Simply shred the chicken, mix it with the sauce, and stuff the potatoes. Dinner is served!
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Air-Fried Buffalo Cauliflower Bites
While not technically a chicken recipe, this vegetarian version of "wings" has all the same great flavor. And it's easy to make thanks to the air fryer.
Buffalo Chicken Sliders
To assemble these sliders, the mini rolls are layered with lettuce, tomato, and boneless buffalo chicken tenders. Of course, there's a good helping of Ranch on there too.
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Buffalo Chicken Salad
For a buffalo chicken recipe you’ll feel good about eating, use buffalo chicken as a high-protein topping on a salad. You'll sear pieces of chicken breast in a skillet, cover them in hot sauce, and toss them with lettuce, blue cheese, and blue cheese dressing.
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