Love chicken but want to try something different? Try making these Baked Buffalo Chicken Thighs. Moist buffalo chicken piped into crunchy skin, it is like nothing else.
Whether you are following keto or just love chicken, these buffalo chicken thigh bites are amazing. With crunchy chicken skin, the shredded chicken, cheese and buffalo sauce are mixed together in the perfect amount of flavor.
What to Serve with Chicken Thighs Bites
If you are looking for other great tasting recipes to serve with these buffalo chicken thighs try:
- Cauliflower Fried Rice
- Keto Friendly Focaccia
- Garlic Mashed Cauliflower
- and for dessert- Keto Chocolate Cupcakes
- https://myheavenlyrecipes.com/homemade-keto-chocolate-cupcakes/
Variations to Buffalo Chicken Thighs
There aren’t too many ways to change up this recipe, but the key ways to change it is:
- More or Less Heat
- Ranch
Ingredients in Buffalo Chicken Thighs
- chicken thighs
- celery
- blue cheese
- buffalo-flavored hot sauce
Other things you will need:
- Parchment paper
- Butcher’s String
- Baking sheets
How to Make Buffalo Chicken Thighs
Remove skin from chicken thighs, leaving whole. Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. Ready 2 small baking sheets.
Place 2 chicken thighs, skins removed, onto one of the baking sheets.
Cut parchment paper into 6 8×8 inch sheets. Roll each sheet into 8-inch long tubes. Wrap 2 chicken skins around each parchment paper tube. Tie each chicken skin with butcher’s string. Bake for 10 minutes, then flip increase oven temp to 450 degrees F.
Add chicken thighs to the oven and bake chicken skins and chicken thighs for 10 minutes, or until the skin is crispy and chicken thighs reach an internal temperature of 165 degrees F. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
In a mixing bowl, shred chicken thighs. Add in the hot sauce and mix until combined. Add in the celery and blue cheese and mix gently.
Gently remove the string from the chicken skins, then carefully remove the parchment paper by gently twisting the paper.
Be very careful not to crush the chicken skins. Pipe chicken mixture into chicken skins and serve.
Baked Buffalo Chicken Thighs
Ingredients
- 12 skins from chicken thighs
- 2 chicken thighs
- ¼ cup celery diced
- 2 tablespoons blue cheese crumbled
- ¼ cup buffalo-flavored hot sauce
- Tools used:
- Parchment paper
- Butcher’s String
- Baking sheets x 2
Instructions
- Remove skin from chicken thighs, leaving whole.
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees F.
- Ready 2 small baking sheets.
- Place 2 chicken thighs, skins removed, onto one of the baking sheets.
- Cut parchment paper into 6 8×8 inch sheets.
- Roll each sheet into 8-inch long tubes.
- Wrap 2 chicken skins around each parchment paper tube.
- Tie each chicken skin with butcher’s string.
- Bake for 10 minutes, then flip increase oven temp to 450 degrees F.
- Add chicken thighs to the oven and bake chicken skins and chicken thighs for 10 minutes, or until skin is crispy and chicken thighs reach an internal temperature of 165 degrees F.
- Remove oven and allow to cool.
- In a mixing bowl, shred chicken thighs.
- Add in the hot sauce and mix until combined.
- Add in the celery and blue cheese and mix gently.
- Gently remove the string from the chicken skins, then carefully remove the parchment paper by gently twisting the paper. Be very careful not to crush the chicken skins.
- Pipe chicken mixture into chicken skins and serve.
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