This Slow Cooker Creamy Buffalo Chicken never disappoints! This chicken recipe is packed full of flavor. It’s easy, creamy, delicious and so versatile!
This chicken is INSANELY good! It’s spicy and flavorful and the sauce is silky and creamy.
It’s also simple to make. Let the slow cooker do the work. All you do is place the chicken in the slow cooker with Italian seasoning, cream cheese, and buffalo wing sauce. Turn the slow cooker on and wait. When the chicken is perfectly cooked and juicy, shred the chicken and whisk the sauce until it’s smooth. Serve and watch your family’s faces light up.
Slow Cooker Creamy Buffalo Chicken
- You can use bone-in breast or chicken thighs for this recipe. Allow longer to cook. You’ll have to test the chicken. Cooking time will depend on the thickness of the chicken.
- For the packet of Italian Salad Dressing mix, you do not make the salad dressing. Use the seasoning only.
- As well, you can use Ranch seasoning mix. I prefer Italian, but both are good.
- Please keep in mind that nutritional information is a rough estimate and can vary based on products used.
- Finally, I used Frank’s Wing Sauce. You can use a regular hot sauce instead of a wing sauce, but taste test it first and/or reduce the amount you use. It may be extremely hot.
Slow Cooker Creamy Buffalo Chicken is a versatile and easy family favorite meal. We like to eat it plain with a side salad. It’s also good in a wrap, on tortilla chips, or on hamburger buns.
Side dishes to serve with this chicken:
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- Deconstructed Green Bean Bundles
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- 3 Ingredient Hashbrown Casserole
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- Sweet Potato Sour Cream Cornbread Recipe
More easy and delicious slow cooker recipes that your family will love!
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- Slow Cooker Zesty Italian Chicken
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- Crock Pot Crack Chicken
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- Slow Cooker Asian Glazed Chicken
Slow Cooker Creamy Buffalo Chicken
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Ingredients
- 2 pounds chicken breasts boneless, skinless. *See post for substitutions
- .7 ounce pack Italian salad dressing mix I used this brand
- 4 ounces cream cheese at room temperature, cut into cubes
- 10 ounces Buffalo chicken wing sauce I used this brand
Instructions
- Place chicken in the slow cooker.
- Sprinkle the seasoning over the chicken.
- Scatter the cubed cream cheese over the chicken.
- Pour the sauce over the chicken.
- Place lid on the slow cooker and cook on low 4 hours or high 2 - 2.5 hours.
- When chicken is cooked through, remove the chicken from the slow cooker and whisk sauce until it's smooth.
- Take 2 forks and shred the chicken. Put it back into the slow cooker and stir. Serve.
Nutrition
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Amanda Morse says
nevermind the question i just asked regarding the substituting ranch dressing for the italian dressing as i see when beginning to read the article it’s like one of the first things said!!! note to self: read first AMANDA!!! LOL 😉
Amanda Morse says
can i substitute ranch dressing for the italian dressing?
Taylor Dudley says
Is thr time and temperature good for raw or cooked chicken?
Paula says
raw chicken
Bj says
Hey it is Bj once again. I got the names of the ladies mixed up. From laughing so hard. Sorry. Still loved the story about the Buffalo chicken meal.
Sorry
Bj
Bj says
Hi Kelly, was reading the comments on the buffalo chicken recipe. I must say it made my day. I said I could not help but laugh in a good way. Poor Paula, she crack me up reading her story about her the crock pot, buffalo chicken recipe. I am sure it was hot with just regular hot sauce, but just the same. I am like you when I do make this for my family I will think about Paula and her family and the experience they had with the buffalo chicken. Thanks for posting this. It really made my day. Everyone needs a good laugh. I will have to try this recipe. It sounds great. Thank you once again for posting this.
BJ
Robbin says
Wholly moley!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Would have been 5 stars but much too hot.
We like spicy but my lips were burning! Hubby had sweat under eyes and forehead! Did we do something wrong?? 10 oz of hot sauce is too much. We even had an extra pound of chicken in there. With that said…the taste was very yummy minus so much heat. I will make again but will tweak the hot sauce. Had it on a wrap loaded with more cream cheese and cold lettuce to cool down. Will revisit this review after I make again. 😊
Paula says
Did you use regular hot sauce or wing sauce. The wing sauce or Buffalo chicken sauce isn’t as hot as traditional hot sauce.
Robbin says
Oh dear god he used reg hot sauce and didnt read the directions of tasting it first !!! Just went out to get Frank’s buffalo sauce to try again 🤞🤞😊😊! My son had tears in his eyes…..looking back now it was pretty funny lol
Paula says
😂 I thought maybe that’s what happened. Let me know how it goes next time. 😃 This is the best!
Robbin says
Hi Paula! So I am back up to 5 stars! It helps to read directions. I bought hot buffalo and reg buffalo (just in case) 😊
Paula says
Yay! Thank you! I’ll think about you every time I make this now. 😆
Kelly says
One box of Italian salad dressing mix contains 4 Each – 0.7 ounce packets. Are you sure we should use the whole box based on your directions? The sodium level per serving at 2,303 mg is really concerning. Thoughts? Thank you!
Paula says
No, that should be 1 pack or one .7 ounces pack/envelope
So sorry for that error, thanks for pointing it out!