Easy Buffalo Chicken

About

It cannot get easier than this! If you’re a spicy food addict, treat yourself every day with a buffalo chicken breast at lunch or dinner time. The recipe is just that: chicken breasts cooked in a homemade, buttery Keto buffalo sauce. Your meal prep rotation will be very simple when you use this recipe. With no carbs, you have literally endless options for any side dishes to complete a meal. If you have a little more time on your hands, incorporate this buffalo chicken into a more complex recipe. Shred the cooked chicken, and use it in a variety of taco, burrito, quesadilla, casserole, or pizza recipes. Have another idea for how to use your buffalo chicken? Sound off in the comment section below the recipe!

What Is Buffalo Sauce?

Buffalo sauce is a common American style of hot sauce, originated in Buffalo, New York. Fried chicken would get cooked in a pepper hot sauce, and the buffalo sauce we know today is a simple combination of melted butter and wing sauce mixed together. To make your own buffalo sauce at home, choose any favorite brand of “wing sauce” or “hot sauce”. Tabasco sauce is not the same as wing sauce, but you could add a couple of dashes for extra heat!

Easiest Keto Meal Prep Uses

Since this recipe for Keto buffalo chicken is so simple, you want your meal prepping to remain simple. Don’t incorporate this chicken into a complex meal. Instead, use your prepared buffalo chicken as the center of a chicken sandwich in Keto cloud bread or chop it up to roll in a tortilla wrap. Slice the chicken to go over a salad, or even just eat the chicken as is with a side of sauteed vegetables.

Ingredients

2 tablespoon butter, unsalted
2 tablespoon red hot original cayenne pepper sauce
10 oz chicken breast boneless skinless raw
½ teaspoon olive or extra virgin olive oil
⅛ teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon black pepper
⅛ teaspoon onion powder
⅛ teaspoon garlic powder
¼ teaspoon oregano, dried

Instructions

Melt the butter in a small pot over low heat on the stove. Pour your favorite brand of traditional hot sauce into the pot, and stir with the butter until combined. Let the sauce heat until bubbling as you stir the sauce for about an extra minute. Remove the pot from the heat at set the buffalo sauce aside to cool and thicken a little. If you’d like to make more buffalo sauce for the recipe, just make a 1:1 ratio of butter and hot sauce.
Prepare 5-ounce chicken breasts by patting them dry with a paper towel and rubbing olive oil into the flesh. Season the chicken breast(s) with salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and oregano. Heat a clean pan on high heat. Once the pan is hot, place the chicken in the pan seasoned side down. Use a marinade brush to brush some of the buffalo sauce onto the exposed side of the chicken in the pan.
Cook the chicken undisturbed until it chars on one side. Then, flip the chicken over so the buffalo sauce you brushed on sears into the meat. Brush more buffalo sauce over the newly exposed side of the chicken breast. Again, let the chicken cook undisturbed for about 3 minutes. Reduce the stove heat to a lower temperature, and pour all remaining buffalo sauce into the pan. Flip the chicken breast over in the sauce back and forth until sauce is coating the chicken as it thickens. Serve hot.