Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Chili
Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Chili is delicious, simple and award winning! This is the go-to when you are tired of boring chili recipes!
You guys might tell me I’ve been living under a rock, and honestly that might not be far from the truth. But did you know that on Friday nights there is like a marathon of Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives on the Food Network? I go to turn on the TV and my six year old gears up for one of her favorite cartoons and I have to crush her dreams. I can’t take even one more episode of kid TV. Despite this somehow, at some point during the evening, the whole family ends up curled up in front of the TV drooling over all the amazing (and sometimes weird!) food and trying to figure out if it would be at all possible to plan a trip to whatever location Guy Fieri is featuring. Yep. We know how to party. Now I’m going to share with you something that you should have while you are watching your marathon TV session…. Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Chili. Yum! A great meal to come home to on a Friday night after a busy week. Easy to make! Easy to love this spicy, creamy goodness!
Heartier than a soup but different than a traditional chili this would be fun to serve up at a party, to take along to a tailgate, or to take to a potluck. Ground chicken instead of beef and white beans instead of chili beans make the base of this chili.
Lots of flavor from chicken broth, ranch dressing mix and fire-roasted tomatoes and some heat from the buffalo sauce are balanced out with some sweet corn and cream cheese. Top it all of with some cilantro for some super fresh flavor. And I can’t forget the blue cheese crumbles on the top! I leave them out of the soup since not everyone is a fan but I can guarantee you I have my bowl topped of with some!
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So park yourself on the couch with a big ‘ol bowl and watch endless episodes of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives until you are convinced you should open your own funky restaurant so you can be featured on the show too. Or wait…is that just me? Yeah, I’m weird like that :). But at least it helps me dream up recipes like Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Chili!
This recipe was originally published on April 7, 2014 and has been updated to reflect fresh photos and updates to the recipe based on reader feedback and re-testing.
Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Chili
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground chicken
- 15 oz canned white navy beans drained and rinsed
- 14.5 oz can fire roasted tomatoes drained
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1/4 - 1/2 cup buffalo wing sauce start with 1/4 cup and add more at end if needed
- 1 package ranch dressing mix
- 1 cup frozen corn kernels
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon celery salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dried cilantro
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 8 oz cream cheese
- Blue cheese crumbles optional
Instructions
- Brown ground chicken until fully cooked, place in crock (or brown ahead of time and store in fridge until ready to assemble)
- Add remaining ingredients except for cream cheese and blue cheese and give it all a stir to combine
- Add block of cream cheese on the top and cover
- Cook on high for 4 hours or low for 8
- Stir to incorporate cream cheese and add additional wing sauce as desired
- Top individual bowls with blue cheese crumbles if desired
Nutrition
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This is in the crockpot for dinner tonight! My only issue so far is I doubled the recipe and my crockpot is at max capacity lol
Was this too salty for anyone? I don’t know what I did wrong and I’m not sure how to fix it. It’s a lot to go to waste so if you have any ideas on the salty problem, please share.
Try ladling out some of the liquid. Then replace it with some water, cream, or unsalted broth. Hopefully that will help!
I made this for a gathering tonight but have made it once before. We love it. I omit the celery and onion salt and instead chop and onion and some celery and sauté before cooking the ground chicken. It’s simmering now and smells amazing! Definitely a keeper!
Made as written except for used shredded chicken because I couldn’t find ground. It waS DELICIOUS! Thank you for sharing the recipe. My kids, husband and next door neighbor all LOVED it as well! Definitely going in the fall/winter meal rotation!
Thanks so much for letting me know! It sound like shredded chicken works great in this recipe too!
We’re not big cream cheese fans, either, so I plan to take an additional can of navy beans and smash them and whisk them in for thickness and creaminess. I do the same thing with refried beans in my tortilla soup, and it works well and is likely more nutritious.
Can u make u make this into a freezer meal?
I think it would work. I would just cook the chicken and add everything to a baggie except for the broth and cream cheese and blue cheese.
Is there anything I could use instead of cream cheese. My husband won’t eat anything with cream cheese or sour cream in it.
Hmmmm. Well, I haven’t tried anything out specifically with this recipe but I have a couple of chili recipes that utilize a cheese sauce instead. Maybe that would be a good workaround? Either homemade or store-bought. Let me know if you give it a try!
What about using some evaporated milk? It will give you that creaminess that would be missing by not using the cream cheese since your husband won’t eat it. It might be more like a creamy soup than a chili though.
I’m going to try this tomorrow. My kids love all things buffalo chicken so I can’t wait to surprise them with this for dinner!
Great suggestion!! Let me know how you like it! 🙂
Soup was delicious. I used shredded chicken from rotisserie chicken and 2 – 15.5 oz cans of Navy beans. I cooked on top of the stove and had no problems with the cream cheese.
Yay!
I plan on making this soon but, I think I would prefer cooked chicken breast or just shred some chicken meat from a rotisserie chicken.
This recipe looks DELICIOUS!!!! Can’t wait to try it!!
On a side note…..I WAS IN ONE OF THE EPISODES OF DON’T DRIVE IN’S AND DIVES!!!!!! You may have seen me!!!
Starlite Lounge, Pittsburgh, PA…..I’m the girl with the brown hair and glasses that they put in a lot!!And if you look real hard in one of the clips, there’s a big table with a family around it. That’s my family! You can see my baby’s bald head (he’s 7 now!!) And my other son is in that clip too! It was a fun experience 🙂
That is SO AWESOME!! If I ever see that episode again I will look for you 🙂