Buffalo Chicken Salad

Spicy Buffalo Chicken Salad is filled with buffalo seasoned chicken, crumbled blue cheese, and ranch. It’s your favorite wings in salad form!

Buffalo chicken salad is spicy and tangy thanks to your favorite buffalo sauce. For more buffalo inspired dishes try Crock Pot Buffalo Dip, Buffalo Chicken Pizza, and Buffalo Chicken Sliders.

Spice Up Your Salad!

Salads are the perfect way to cool off in the summertime. This Buffalo Chicken Salad adds a little bit of a spicy kick to your basic salad.

With that said, you can make this salad as simple or complex as you like.

You can serve it as a plain bed of romaine with the buffalo chicken and bleu cheese ranch, or you can include additional vegetables and toppings.

Regardless, this salad has a great kick to it and is perfect as a stand alone main dish, or an accompanying side.

how to make buffalo chicken salad

DRESSING. Make dressing by mixing mayo, milk, and ranch mix. Stir in bleu cheese and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

CHICKEN. Add vegetable oil to a large skillet and cook on MED-HIGH heat. Add the chicken cubes and cook until slightly browned and cooked through.

SAUCE. Reduce heat to low and add butter, hot sauce and salad seasoning mix. Cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove chicken keeping any of the hot sauce needed to toss in with the salad.

ASSEMBLE. Toss together the lettuce and bleu cheese ranch dressing. Top with the chicken pieces, croutons and bleu cheese crumbles. Serve immediately.

Variations

For a tasty twist try wrapping the buffalo chicken salad in a tortilla or serving it as a sandwich on bread.

To make it a crispy salad use our crispy baked chicken finger recipe and drench with buffalo sauce (or our boneless buffalo wings). 

Honestly whatever you love in a salad would make a great dish. Possible mix ins could include:

• Croutons
• Fresh corn
• Bell peppers
• Avocados
• Broccoli
• Snap peas
• Celery
• Carrots

Tips + Storing Info

One of the easiest ways to reduce the heat index of buffalo wings is to look for a mild sauce at the grocery store. Another easy way is to mix the hot sauce with some melted butter. Just keep adding butter until you reach the desired amount of heat.

By serving the dressing on the side you allow each person to be able to add as much as they’d like. Also, leftovers store better without dressing. 

Prepare this salad AHEAD OF TIME by storing cooked and cut ingredients in separate airtight containers in the fridge until you’re ready to toss them all together and serve. 

STORE leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for 1-2 days. Perhaps longer, but the sauce and dressing may make the lettuce soggy.

For more Delicious Salads, try:

• Ramen Noodle Salad
• Chicken Caesar Salad
• Strawberry Harvest Salad
• Chicken Taco Salad
• Steak and Tortellini Salad
• Cheesecake Factory Luau Salad
• Ham Salad

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