Easy Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe (Oven or Slow Cooker) - Fresh April Flours (2024)

FAQs

How to thicken up buffalo chicken dip? ›

How do you thicken buffalo chicken dip? The short and happy answer: cheese! And this cheese dip calls for three varieties: cream cheese, cheddar cheese, and blue cheese. Cream cheese is the hero that thickens this dip and gives it texture.

Buffalo chicken dip can be runny if you use a reduced fat cream cheese. It can also be runny if you use too much ranch dressing or not enough chicken. You can thicken the dip by adding more shredded chicken, or even more cubes of full fat cream cheese or even more shredded cheddar cheese.

Making and storing buffalo chicken dip

Since the dip has numerous ingredients, it might open the door for questions about how long you should keep leftovers in the fridge. You can store leftover dip in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to three days, according to The Kitchn.

Buffalo Chicken Dip Tips

Use all-white meat chicken. This will cut down on the amount of grease in your dip. Use freshly shredded cheese (or a pre-shredded brand with cream cheese in the mix like Krafts Creamy Melt cheese). Serve this dip hot right out of the oven if you are adding cheese to the top.

Use Flour and Water

Combine 2 tablespoons flour with every 1/4 cup cold water and whisk until smooth. Add the mixture to your sauce over medium heat, and continue to stir and cook until you've reached your desired consistency. Test with a spoon.

Transfer the cooled Buffalo chicken dip to a shallow airtight container and store in the fridge for up to one week.

Tossing your wings in flour before frying will give them a slight crust that will absorb sauce more readily. If not using flour, try using a thicker sauce, I've seen Franks Red Hot came out with a thick sauce. If you're using regular hot sauce, add melted butter to the sauce and let sit at room temp.

Bad buffalo chicken dip often develops a sour or off smell. If the dip has been sitting out for several hours at room temperature, especially during a party or event, it's best to toss it as the risk of foodborne illness grows with time. Always store buffalo chicken dip in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Tortilla chips – I recommend a thick, hearty chip that can stand up to these cheesy chicken dip. You could also spoon the dip over the tortilla chip “scoops”. Corn chips – Frito scoops are perfect for dipping up this buffalo chicken dip! Crackers – I recommend a thick cracker, like Wheat Thins or Triscuits.

What is buffalo dipping sauce made of? ›

In its simplest form, buffalo wing sauce is a just a combination of cayenne pepper hot sauce and butter. My recipe calls for a few additional ingredients to help balance the flavors, but it's still very straightforward. If you keep a bottle of Frank's RedHot in your fridge, you can whip it up anytime!

No football game would be complete without some version of Buffalo Chicken Dip. The buffalo sauce is a processed food, but I think using it infrequently is reasonable. This dip freezes well after you cook it. So, enjoy half and freeze the rest to easily enjoy on another game day.

If you reheat food that was forgotten on the counter overnight or was left out all day, will it be safe to eat? TWO HOURS is the MAXIMUM time perishable foods should be at room temperature (ONE HOUR at temperatures 90 degrees F and higher). This INCLUDES the time they're on the table during your meal.

Does Hot Sauce Go Bad if Not Refrigerated? Yes, any open hot sauce bottle will eventually go bad if it's not refrigerated. Of course, it will eventually go bad even if it is refrigerated. It just might spoil a little bit faster sitting out in the open.

To yield 2 cups of shredded chicken, you'll need approximately 12 ounces of cooked chicken or 1 pound raw. In terms of cooked meat, this looks like 2 chicken breasts, 4 chicken thighs, or the meat from half of a rotisserie chicken.

What is this? If you're dealing with a stir-fry sauce or gravy that's just a little too runny, make a cornstarch slurry with two parts water and one part starch (adding it directly to your sauce will cause it to clump), then whisk it into your hot sauce, keeping in mind your sauce will further thicken as it cools.

The most readily available sauce-thickener is flour. For a too-thin sauce, try adding a slurry (equal parts flour and water, whisked together) or beurre manie (equal parts softened butter and flour, kneaded together to form a paste)—both are ideal thickeners for rich and creamy sauces, such as steak sauce recipes.

But when I'm mixing up and using all of the sauce right away, I will mix in 1 tablespoon of cornstarch and 1 tablespoon warm water in a small separate bowl to create a slurry mixture. Then just add it into the sauce while it's cooking and mix! It will take a few minutes to officially thicken.