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Healthy slow cooker buffalo chicken

July 21, 2017 By Kathryn

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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!

Healthy slow cooker buffalo chicken sliders being served

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

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Prep Time 5 minutes Cook Time 3 hours Total Time 3 hours 5 minutes
Serves 8-10     adjust servings

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.

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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
Amount Per ServingAs Served
Calories 194kcal Calories from fat 51
% Daily Value
Total Fat 6g9%
Saturated Fat 2g10%
Transfat 0g
Cholesterol 92mg31%
Sodium 621mg26%
Carbohydrate 3g1%
Dietary Fiber 0g0%
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:

Calories2000
Total FatLess than65g
Sat FatLess than25g
CholesterolLess than300mg
SodiumLess than2,400mg
Total Carbohydrate300g
Dietary Fiber25g

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Comments

  1. Tara | Treble in the Kitchen says

    July 21, 2017 at 9:04 AM

    YUMMM! This looks perfect for a party 🙂 We pretty much love buffalo anything in our house.

    Reply
    • Kathryn says

      July 25, 2017 at 10:05 PM

      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! 😉

      Reply
  2. Julie doherty says

    September 20, 2017 at 8:02 PM

    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!!!

    Reply
    • Kathryn says

      September 21, 2017 at 6:55 AM

      Yay, so glad to hear you all enjoyed it! XO

      Reply
  3. Rachel says

    December 29, 2017 at 7:28 PM

    Very good!

    Reply
    • Kathryn says

      December 30, 2017 at 2:50 PM

      I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed it Rachel! Thanks for sharing!

      Reply
  4. Maddi says

    April 2, 2018 at 11:45 PM

    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!!

    Reply
    • Kathryn says

      April 4, 2018 at 3:01 PM

      I’m so happy to hear you loved this Maddi! Thanks so much for sharing! 😊

      Reply
  5. Sara says

    September 10, 2018 at 12:22 PM

    What is a serving size and how many servings does this make?

    Reply
    • Kathryn says

      September 10, 2018 at 8:05 PM

      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!

      Reply

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