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Buffalo Chicken Chili with Blue Cheese
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Buffalo Chicken Chili with Blue Cheese

Some recipes are engineered in a lab; this one was clearly born at a Super Bowl party, and it's all the better for it. It takes everything you love about Buffalo wings — the tangy heat of the hot sauce, the cool funk of blue cheese, the crunch of celery — and folds it into a creamy white chicken chili base. It sounds like a novelty and eats like a favorite: spicy, rich, and impossible to stop at one bowl. Serve it with celery sticks and a drizzle of ranch and watch it disappear faster than the actual wings ever did.

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45m
Cook Time
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Chicken
Protein
📍
Northeast
Region
Heat Level
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Hot

Nutrition Per Serving
339
calories
per serving
23g
Protein
12g
Fat
36g
Carbs
7g
Fiber
Sodium838mg
Sugar5g
Estimates per serving (7 servings total) · Powered by Edamam

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Serving suggestions

The blue cheese isn't a garnish here — it's the counterweight to the heat, so be generous.

Substitutions & tips

Not a blue cheese person? A ranch drizzle and shredded jack still work. Rotisserie chicken makes it fast. Dial the hot sauce down for a crowd, or set the bottle on the table and let people finish their own bowls.


Ingredients
2 cups cooked shredded chicken
1/2 cup Frank's RedHot sauce
1/2 cup blue cheese crumbles
2 cans Great Northern beans
3 cups chicken broth
1 onion, diced
4 garlic cloves
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp garlic powder
Celery sticks and ranch to serve
Steps
1
Sauté the onion and garlic in butter until soft and translucent.
2
Add the cumin and garlic powder and stir for a minute to bloom.
3
Pour in the chicken broth and bring to a simmer.
4
Add the shredded chicken and Great Northern beans.
5
Stir in the Frank's RedHot to taste — start with half and build up; it's the soul of the dish but it sneaks up on you.
6
Simmer 20 minutes until slightly thickened, so the flavors marry and the beans soak up the heat.
7
Serve topped with plenty of blue cheese crumbles, celery sticks, and a drizzle of ranch.

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