Healthy slow cooker buffalo chicken takes just minutes to prep and can be used for sandwiches, sliders, wraps, salads or nachos!
Hi from sunny Florida!
I’m away for a weekend family reunion with my husband’s side of the family.
(And it’s awesome. Cause they’re awesome. I married into a fabulous family!)
So I’ll be keeping this intro short today…
I’ve got another Recipe Redux today with a theme of easy summer slow cooker meals – perfect for when you don’t want to turn on the oven and heat up the house!
So I’m bringing my healthy slow cooker buffalo chicken, which is perfect for sliders, sandwiches, salad bowls and more!
You may remember that I’m ALL about using my slow cooker in the summer. I love being able to stay at the pool a little longer or go for one more bike ride, knowing I don’t have to come home and prep dinner.
We get to stay outside a little longer and have dinner ready to go when we’re finally home, tired and hungry. 🙌
Here’s a few of my other favorite summer slow cooker meals:
- Slow cooker balsamic chicken
- Slow cooker Thai pork
- Slow cooker tequila chicken
- Slow cooker apricot chicken
- Slow cooker salsa verde pork tacos, and of course
- Slow cooker pulled pork
And now this healthier buffalo chicken. Made easy in the slow cooker. With just a few ingredients. 👍
Most buffalo chicken is made with a ton of butter. This has none. 🙌
It gets deliciously creamy and silky from the cream cheese and Greek yogurt and then blue cheese is stirred in at the end to add some extra richness and those classic buffalo chicken flavors.
(But if you’re not a huge blue cheese fan (confession: I’m not, except with buffalo chicken), you can definitely leave it off. It’s plenty creamy and flavorful as is!)
Ways to serve this healthy slow cooker buffalo chicken:
- Make sandwiches or sliders, like I did here – perfect for parties!
- Use wraps or lettuce wraps for a low-carb healthy option.
- Pile the buffalo chicken onto some nachos for a fun party appetizer or game-day snack.
- Make a salad bowl – use some chopped romaine as the base, add a pile of this shredded buffalo chicken and then arrange some matchstick carrots, sliced cherry tomatoes and maybe some corn around your bowl. I might add some roasted potatoes too! 👌
- You could put some of this buffalo chicken in potato skins for an appetizer.
- Serve it as a dip with some celery and carrot sticks and chips. Yum!
So you pretty much need to go and make this ASAP. Easy, creamy, delicious and so versatile!
I’ve convinced myself — I’m gonna make another batch as soon as we’re back home. 😄
Have a fabulous weekend!
XO,
Kathryn
Healthy slow cooker buffalo chicken
Healthy slow cooker buffalo chicken is lightened up but super creamy and takes just minutes to prep!
Ingredients
- 2 lbs. boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 4 oz. reduced fat (or fat free) cream cheese
- 1/2 cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt (or sour cream)
- 1/2 cup Frank’s red hot sauce
- 1/2 cup blue cheese crumbles
- Salt and black pepper, to taste
Instructions
Add the chicken to the insert of your slow cooker. Add cream cheese, Greek yogurt and hot sauce and stir to mix so everything is spread out and coated.
Cover and cook on high for 3-4 hours, until cooked through.
Remove the chicken breasts, shred and return the shredded chicken to the crock pot. Stir into the sauce until well mixed.
Stir in the blue cheese and let the mixture sit for about 15 minutes (either off or on warm) to let the chicken absorb all the juices and flavors.
Serve and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
You can serve this buffalo chicken as sandwiches or sliders, as wraps or lettuce wraps, on nachos, in potato skins, as a salad bowl, or as a dip with some carrots, celery and chips.
| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Serving Size | |
| Amount Per Serving | As Served |
| Calories 194kcal Calories from fat 51 | |
| % Daily Value | |
| Total Fat 6g | 9% |
| Saturated Fat 2g | 10% |
| Transfat 0g | |
| Cholesterol 92mg | 31% |
| Sodium 621mg | 26% |
| Carbohydrate 3g | 1% |
| Dietary Fiber 0g | 0% |
| Sugars 2g | |
| Protein 32g | |
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs:
| Calories | 2000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Fat | Less than | 65g |
| Sat Fat | Less than | 25g |
| Cholesterol | Less than | 300mg |
| Sodium | Less than | 2,400mg |
| Total Carbohydrate | 300g | |
| Dietary Fiber | 25g | |
Tara | Treble in the Kitchen says
YUMMM! This looks perfect for a party 🙂 We pretty much love buffalo anything in our house.
Kathryn says
I feel the same way! Can’t get enough so I had to lighten it up a bit – now I can feed my addiction anytime! 😉
Julie doherty says
So delicious! Read it wrong and but the blue cheese in from the breginning and it was fine. Also used half the hot sauce because we r wimps!!!
Kathryn says
Yay, so glad to hear you all enjoyed it! XO
Rachel says
Very good!
Kathryn says
I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed it Rachel! Thanks for sharing!
Maddi says
This recipe is absolutely amazing. I love buffalo chicken, but I always love to add a little creaminess to it (with wings I use blue cheese dressing) and this stuck a great balance between the spicy and creamy. I didn’t end up adding blue cheese crumbles because they were expensive and I’m a poor college kid, but it turned out wonderful without. I also subbed Greek yogurt cream cheese for the reduced fat cream cheese to rev up the protein content further. Thank you so much!!
Kathryn says
I’m so happy to hear you loved this Maddi! Thanks so much for sharing! 😊
Sara says
What is a serving size and how many servings does this make?
Kathryn says
Hi Sara, it kind-of depends on how you are using it! If you are serving this as a dip for an appetizer, it serves about 10. If you are using it for buffalo chicken sandwiches or wraps, you’ll probably be closer to getting 7-8 servings. I hope that helps!