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These spicy slow cooker Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches are sure to be the hit of any party. They are perfect for homegating parties, holiday parties, or just for an easy supper.
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Homegating (aka watching the game at home with a bunch of friends) is so much more fun when you aren’t stuck in the kitchen cooking.
I prep and cook the day before for a lot of things, but these Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches are ready in about 5 hours with very little effort and they are delicious! So they are the perfect dish to prepare for game day! I usually have a few too many, but so does everyone else.
They are a little spicy, a little tangy, but cool and creamy too. The fresh green onion gives them just the right hint of freshness too. {Side note: to make them less spicy add more ranch dressing to the slow cooker after the chicken is shredded.}
Homegating Party Tips
Small touches like colored napkins in your team’s colors go a long way.
Pick up one of the NFL/NCAA Crock-Pot® Slow Cookers (or HERE) to show your support for your favorite team.
Have lots of easy recipes planned and cooking before guests arrive. Or cook the day before and reheat for the party.
Slow Cooker Cooking Tips
Always spray your slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray or use a liner for easy clean up.
Keep the lid closed. Every time you open to stir or take a peek you add an additional 15 minutes to the cooking time.
Cooking on low takes about twice as long as cooking on high.
Don’t overcrowd your slow cooker; it should only be 1/2 to 2/3 full.
Use more than one Crock-Pot® Slow Cooker. I usually have 3 or 4 going for big parties. Check out some of my other slow cooker recipes.
Check out how easy these sliders are to make:
Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches
spicy shredded chicken smothered with homemade Buffalo sauce. This slow cooker Buffalo chicken recipe is perfect for an easy dinner or game day food.
Ingredients
- 3 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper
- 12 oz bottle of Frank’s Red Hot Sauce
- 1 cup ranch dressing, divided
- 12 hoagie rolls
- green onions, finely chopped
- blue cheese crumbles
Instructions
- Put the chicken, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, and the hot sauce in the slow cooker and cook on high for 4 hours (or 8 hours on low).
- Remove the chicken from the slow cooker and shred it, using two forks. Return the shredded chicken to the crock, add 1/2 cup of ranch dressing and stir until the everything is well-mixed, let cook another hour or so.
- Serve with hoagie rolls, blue cheese crumbles, additional ranch dressing, and a sprinkle of green onions.
Notes
- Using crumbled goat cheese is a great alternative for the blue cheese..
- Dairy Free Option: Use Vegan Ranch and skip the cheese.
- Gluten Free Option: Use Gluten Free Hot Dog buns.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1 sandwichAmount Per Serving: Calories: 328Total Fat: 13gSaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 88mgSodium: 1196mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1gProtein: 29g
Check out all these other great tailgating recipes…just in time for football season!
Jalapeño Cheddar Corn Dog Bites
Football Game Day Cookies
Sun-Dried Tomato & Roasted Red Pepper Dip
Buffalo Chicken Jalapeno Poppers
Tropical Chicken with Grilled Pineapple
Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches
Sloppy Joe Sliders
Mexican Shrimp Cocktail
Homemade Soft Pretzels with Mustard Cheese Dip
Bruschetta Turkey Burger Sliders
Bacon Cheese Ball
Red Potato Salad with Bacon
Easy Pizza Kabobs
Deviled Eggs
Disclaimer: This post is in partnership with the Crock-Pot® brand. All opinions are my own.
Love the idea to sub goat cheese. I’ll have to try that!
My daughter is crazy for buffalo chicken!! She’s swoon for this!
so delicious! And so easy with the crockpot, I love it!
My favorite is a beef stew recipe with mushrooms and red wine.
This recipe sounds delicious and will give it a try this weekend. My favorite crock pot recipe is pork roast with gravy and potatoes.
Chili or pot roast is my fav
This recipe sounds delicious! I like making pizza sloppy joes in mine!
My favorite crock pot meal is pot roast. It is a go to meal for my family and we love it. Plus, it always makes my home smell delicious.
As a single working Mama with 2 jobs, I often do not have the time to cook for my family. Thank goodness for slow cookers.. my sister has loaned me hers and I love how efficient it is. I cook chili, stew, and beans in it. I’ll have to give your recipe a try. Fingers crossed I win your wonderful Crock-Pot!
This recipe looks very tasty. Thanks for sharing!
I love slow cookers! It’s so much easier to get something together on a busy day. My favorite thing to make is pot roast!
Looks great. I make chili a lot in the crock pot.
slow-cooking corned beef stew.
My favorite recipe is Broccoli and Beef! It’s a delicious option that beats fast food any day.
I love to make salsa chicken in the crockpot.
I like to do a slow cooker chili.
I have a chicken noodle soup for the slow cooker recipe that is amazing! My daughter requests it at least twice a month.
The Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches sound delicious. I love crockpot pot roast.
My favorite crock-pot recipe is buffalo chicken cheese dip. Your recipe sounds like a good one to try!
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Our favorite Crock-Pot recipe is a Guinness Beef Stew !
We like vegetarian chili in the crock pot
This recipe looks delicious, easy, and crowd pleasing. Thank you for sharing.
My husband would love this and I will have to try it
I’d love to make this recipe, but I love making beef stew.
This recipe looks great, a good blend of spices. My family enjoy slow cooker lasagna
Dr. Pepper pulled pork is my favorite recipe.
My favorite crock pot recipe is green chile pork. It is so easy and so delicious.
I like making soups and stews in mine!
love this recipe but i really enjoy making chicken curry in a crockpot
My favorite crock pot recipe is pulled pork which uses Dr Pepper soda, and few other ingredients. It’s so tasty.
It looks like an interesting recipe.I would be interested in trying this.
this looks good I must try this, my favorite thing to cook in a crockpot is pulled pork barbque
Pot Roast with Onions taste so good in the Crock-Pot!!!
My favorite slow cooker recipe is chicken curry.
I like using my slow cooker to make pork carnitas or chicken for tacos
I cook a Boston Butt in the Crockpot. Shred it up and add bbq sauce.
Your recipe looks really simple and easy. I make shredded chicken but have new tried the buffalo chicken.
Your Crock-Pot Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches definitely sound like something we should try for game day.
I heart anything with blue cheese!
I love making a nice pot roast and veggies in the crock pot.
We enjoy cooking chili in the crockpot. Let it simmer all day and let the flavors simmers
Chili is my favorite crockpot recipe, especially during the fall. 🙂
I like chicken, bacon, cheese, and tater tots together in the crock pot!
I don’t have a slow cooker but the first recipe I would make is BBQ jackfruit. 🙂
My chili recipe is my go to for the crockpot!
My favorite crock pot recipe is 3 Envelope Roast. I make it at least once a month!
I love buffalo chicken! I totally want to make this! Yum
i love to make slow cooker chicken fajita soup & slow cooker chili. Happy Thanksgiving
My husband would love your Buffalo Chicken Sandwich crockpot recipe. Can’t wait to make it!
My favorite crock pot recipe is beef with rice. I get a cheap cut of meat and leave it in there for 24 hours. I cook white rice and add the shredded soft beef and the juice from the crock pot. I try to add carrots to the crock pot also because it gives them a beefy flavor!
My favorite crock pot recipe is chicken breast, cream of mushroom soup, and sour cream. Serve it over rice and it is so good.
Can’t wait to try this recipe in my new slow cooker! lol
Your recipe sounds delicious! I have a recipe for BBQ Chicken Sandwiches that is my favorite.
I like crock-pot ham. We put a spiral sliced ham, canned pineapple, and brown sugar in the pot; then “set it and forget it” Makes a great dinner without a lot of effort.
Want to try your recipe. We cook lots of chili in ours
I love making homemade chili in my crock pot. I combine pinto beans, kidney beans, stewed tomatoes, chopped garlic, onions, celery, and spices.
Your buffalo chicken looks great! My all-time favorite thing to make in a slow cooker is beef stew. I think the slow cooker is perfect for stews, and the house smells great when it’s cooking–bonus!
I love orange chicken made in the slower cooker, its so delicious. Thanks for the chance to win.
That is a great lazy Sunday football recipe. I like everyone making chili in the crockpot.
Your recipe sounds so delicious. My favorite crock pot recipe is my Jambalaya.
I love cooking everything in the crockpot! It’s so easy! I like doing chicken a lot because like this recipe it’s easy and super flavorful!
These look so good for a football watching party. I can’t wait to try them with my family at the next Steelers night!
I love buffalo chicken anything. This recipe looks so good I am going to make it for a party.
Slow Cooker Lime Chicken with Couscous
Crock pot lasagna is my favorite yummy!
To many favorites to name just 1! My kids really enjoy my Creamy Italian Chicken (served over rice or noodles)- also one similar to this but it is the Buffalo Chicken Dip
I like making Mac n cheese in mine!
Actually, this recipe sounds really delicious!
I loved making BBQ pulled chicken in our slow cooker
When the first chill is in the air I start using the crockpot. Right now I’m on a chicken kick so I’m doing a lot of chicken – my favorite is a whole chicken with a brown sugar rub. Yum.
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My fav recipe to cook in m crockpot is chii…I make it at least once a month and it’s different every time. Sometimes it’s beef, sometimes it’s turkey or even white chicken chili. There’s even my clean out the frig chili…lol
My favorite recipe is Meatball and Tortellini Soup.
I love Making My kids Favorite Mac & Cheese in the crock pot
I love making chili in a crockpot!
I would love to have a Seahawk crockpot !
This recipe sounds delicious (and the pictures show delicious). We have an old small crockpot and cook a lot of bbq pulled pork or chicken and also use it for chilis – need to win a LARGE/new crockpot. Thanks for this chance!
This looks like a really delicious recipe! I enjoy making chili in my crock pot.
I do a pot roast that features a mixture of golden mushroom soup and french onion soup mix. Sounds weird, but it’s really good. The soups make an excellent sauce for the potatoes and carrots.
This recipe sounds delicious. I would use the crockpot almost every day. I love to make a lentil soup in the crock pot too.
This recipe sounds delicious!! My favorite crock pot recipe is cheeseburger soup
I love this crock pot recipe: slow cooker red-wine beef stew 🙂
I use the crockpot for recipes; but another good use I have found is to make those beans: you know,
like chick peas, lentils, etc. I make lentil beans frequently during the cold months. This usually tranfers into
soup or a “lentil refried bean” which I use on other recipes. It’s easy and the lentils cook perfectly
without a worry or care.
sweet and sour meatballs; frozen meatballs with equal parts grape jelly and ketchup
My family loves this.
I love making beans in my slow cooker. Thanks for the chance.
I honestly don’t eat meat, but I know that my family would enjoy this recipe. Thank you for sharing it!
The buffalo chicken sandwiches sound amazing. Might be a bit too hot for me though.
Those Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches would be perfect for after church during game time! Thanksgiving is just a few days away, but I WILL be making these before it gets here!! You’ve got lotsa things I wanna try!!
My favorite crock pot meal is a beef roast with potatoes and carrots. Add a little dried onions on top and you have a great meal!
I have a crock-pot chili recipe that I love to make. It taste delicious and the house smells amazing that day as it cooks all day.
The green onions won me over!
This recipe sounds and looks delicious and it’s so easy to make.
My family loves the pot roast I make in the crockpot. Chuck Roast, potatoes, onions, carrots, can of golden mushroom soup, 1/2 can water & salt & pepper. Yum!!!
We like to make chili in a crockpot.
I like to make beef stew but this recipe looks good.
My favorite Crock Pot recipe is Mississippi Beef Roast.
beef stew
My favorite Crock-Pot recipe is turkey chili!
I love to make chicken pot pie in my crock pot!
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These things sound tasty. I’d definitely try them.
My favorite crockpot recipe is blue cheese and dried cherry meatloaf which is funny because I don’t like blue cheese or dried cherries but they are amazing in the recipe
This looks wonderful! I would love to try this! ♡
My daughter makes an amazing white chicken chili.
Wow, that looks and sounds delicious. Lately, my favorite has been crock pot chicken and dumplings! They are so good and so comforting!
I love to make pulled pork in my crock pot. Thank you
I like making bbq pulled pork in a crock pot
This recipe sounds great. Perfect for football
My husband would love this recipe. I like to make a veggie stew or lasagna in the crock pot.
i love making roast or chicken and dumplings
Great recipe!! My Husband, who is not from the east coast said “what is a Hoagie roll?” LOL
This meal looks so delicious. I am not a huge fan of spice but would still try this! Thanks for the recipe.
If you aren’t a fan of spicy…add more Ranch dressing. It cuts the heat. 🙂 w-
That recipe looks delicious! What a perfect game day idea!
I use my crock so much I just make up recipes… Throw in a little of this a little of that…
would love this for my family
I loved my crock pot, and then…I dropped it getting it out of the car. I miss it so much! I used it at least once a week.
I love to make Spanish rice in my Crock-Pot. I also make sweet and sour chicken. It is delicious!
I like making beef stroganoff in the crock pot – great on a cold day
I can’t tolerate hot and spicy foods. So, I wouldn’t be trying this recipe out.
This recipe looks delicious. My favorite slow cooker recipe is pork chops cooked in salsa.
Slow cookers are the best! I love cooking roast beef and chili in mine, especially during the cooler months.
I need some warmth here I should make that today
We like to make chili in a crockpot
I like to make my lentil bean soup in the crockpot….use chopped onions, seasonings, chopped veggies (if desired…) and water. Cooks good if cooked slowly. Great for fall and winter weather.
We love using the crock pot and coming home to a house that already smells like dinner.
Buffalo chicken sandwiches sounds like a tasty recipe.
i love to make pot roast in my crock pot.
These look amazing! I am a lover of anything buffalo flavored!
These Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches sound wonderful in the crockpot. My family also enjoys bbq pulled pork sandwiches with banana peppers and spicy barbecue sauce in the crockpot.
That buffalo chicken looks really good. I also like making French Dips in the slow cooker.
I like BBQ meatballs in the Crockpot
I love to make chili
Not a fan of buffalo sauce but I do like making marinated meatballs in my slow cooker.
Oh, I love the sound of this. I do like a nice chicken meal, and crockpots make it easier.
I think the recipe sounds great.
I would love my favorite team the Rams featured to make my famous sausage chili on game days!
My favorite slow cooker recipes are a good chicken soup/stew, and a really good roast beef. Super easy too.
We make the corned beef in the crock pot.
I have so many “favorite” crock pot recipes, but some of the top ones are Salsa Chicken, Buffalo Chicken Dip, Taco Dip and Chocolate cake (yes you read that correctly!). Believe it or not, as much of an NFL fanatic as I am, I don’t have my team’s crock pot yet! Would love the chance to win 🙂
Another great recipe for my buffalo chicken file!!
This recipe sounds amazing. Its definitely something my family would enjoy. I haven’t used our crock pot much so I look forward to trying it.
My favorite recipe is shredded pork shoulder.
My favorite crockpot recipe is Chicken N Dumplings
These look amazing/. I am going to try them.
A few of my favorite things to make in a Crock Pot are egg casserole (its an awesome layered egg dish with hash browns, bacon, onions, eggs etc.) and BBQ pulled pork or chicken. Your recipe sounds delicious.
I love baked potato soup in the crockpot
Mine is a creamy buffalo chicken dip that doubles as a sandwich filling.
It looks good. I use my crock pot several times a week. I love to cooking roast in it.
This sounds delicious and I want to try it. I also love the tip to use a liner.
Looks very delicious. I just love blue cheese, so you can’t go wrong. Sure it was flavorful!
My favorite is chili in a crock pot.
I make chili in ours
Pulled pork is what I usually make in my crockpot,
I think my family would like this. I would probably make it with some kind of pasta salad that I could throw together while this is cooking or even the night before.
Sounds yummy. I love crockpot recipes. It’s just so easy to throw things into the pot and let them cook for the needed time.
I think this buffalo chicken sandwich recipe would go great for game days. We have people over usually on Mondays and I am always looking for easy recipes. I think my favorite crock pot recipe is chili. We make it a lot in the winter.
My favorite Crock-Pot recipe is Creamy Italian Chicken. This delicious recipe uses cream cheese, condensed soup, and dry Italian dressing mix to make a smooth and luscious sauce that surrounds tender chicken. Serve it with rice or pasta to soak up all the sauce!
I would have to leave out the hot sauce, not for me. I love to make loaded baked potato soup in a crock pot and I am in need of a new one!
This recipe would not go over in my household but if it was made for my husband he would chow that down!
I love making meals in my slow cooker.
This recipe sounds delicious and I would definitely try it! I love using the slow cooker for meals – makes life so much easier when you have work and school things!!