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🍗Creamy Buffalo Chicken

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by Emily Sandre

Blackened chicken breasts topped with a creamy buffalo sauce

13 ingredients15 steps5 servings343.9 cal/serving
Gluten-FreeNut-FreeHigh ProteinLow Carb
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Prep: 15 minCook: 20 min
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Ingredients

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Blackened Chicken

  • 2 lbsboneless skinless chicken breast
  • 1.5 tspsalt
  • 1 tspblack pepper
  • 2 tsponion powder
  • 2.5 tspgarlic powder
  • 3 tsppaprika
  • 3 tsporegano
  • 2lemons(juiced)
  • 2 Tbspavocado oil

Creamy Hot Sauce

  • 4 ozreduced fat cream cheese
  • 0.5 cupbuffalo sauce(Sweet Baby Rays Buffalo Wing Sauce)
  • 0.5 cupreduced fat shredded cheddar cheese
  • 1 Tbspranch seasoning

Instructions

Blackened Chicken

  1. 1Trim your chicken breasts of any extra fat.
  2. 2Slice the chicken breasts horizontally to create 2 smaller chicken breasts.
  3. 3Cover the chicken breasts with parchment paper, and pound thin with a meat tenderizer. Make sure they are all roughly the same thickness. Remove the parchment paper.
  4. 4Mix all of the seasonings together in a bowl.
  5. 5Drizzle 2tbsp of avocado oil over top of the chicken breasts.
  6. 6Sprinkle half of the seasoning mixture over top of the chicken breasts. Using your fingers, press the seasonings into the chicken.
  7. 7Flip the chicken over and sprinkle the other half of the seasonings over top and press into the chicken.
  8. 8Squeeze the lemon juice over top of the chicken.
  9. 9Warm a large skillet over medium low heat.
  10. 10Once warm, place the chicken into the skillet.
  11. 11Cook each side for about 5-6 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches 165.
  12. 12Remove the chicken from the pan and allow to rest for at least 5-10 minutes before slicing.

Creamy Hot Sauce

  1. 1Return the sliced chicken to the same skillet.
  2. 2Over medium low heat add in the cream cheese and hot sauce, stir until cream cheese is melted and chicken is well coated.
  3. 3Add in the ranch seasoning and stir. Top with the shredded cheddar and allow to melt!
Nutrition Facts
Valeur nutritive
Per 1 serving
pour 1 serving
% Daily Value*
% valeur quotidienne*
Calories 343.9
Fat / Lipides 15 g20 %
Saturated / saturés 4.5 g23 %
+ Trans
Cholesterol / Cholestérol 145.4 mg48 %
Sodium 1098.4 mg48 %
Carbohydrate / Glucides 8 g3 %
Fibre / Fibres 1.9 g7 %
Sugars / Sucres 3.3 g3 %
Protein / Protéines 44.2 g
Potassium 731.6 mg22 %
Calcium 99.7 mg8 %
Vitamin D / Vitamine D
Iron / Fer 1.6 mg9 %

*5% or less is a little, 15% or more is a lot

*5% ou moins c'est peu, 15% ou plus c'est beaucoup

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