Buffalo Chicken Recipe
This Buffalo Chicken Recipe is a fun and delicious anytime dinner made with just a handful of simple ingredients including juicy chicken breasts, hot sauce, honey, garlic, and butter. Ready in under 30 minutes, enjoy this low-carb and gluten-free baked buffalo chicken with all your favorite sides or chop it up and add it to this reader-favorite Buffalo Chicken Dip recipe.
Ingredients
- 4 largeboneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 tablespoonolive oil
- 1 teaspoongarlic powder
- 1 teaspoonsalt
- 1 teaspoonpepper
- 1 cupfrank's red hot sauce
- 3 tablespoonbutter (melted)
- 3 tablespoonhoney (plus more to taste)
- ½lime (juiced)
- 3 clovesgarlic (minced)
- ½ teaspoononion powder
- feta cheese (for serving (optional))
Directions
- 1
Preheat oven to 400°F and spray a large 11 x 8-inch baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.
- 2
Add the chicken breasts to your baking dish and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle both sides with salt, pepper, and garlic powder, to season.
- 3
Prepare your homemade buffalo sauce. In a small mixing bowl whisk together the Frank's Red Hot Sauce, melted butter, honey, lime juice, minced garlic, and onion powder. Season with additional salt, pepper, or honey, to taste.
- 4
Pour your prepared buffalo sauce over the top of the chicken breasts. Thoroughly coat each chicken breast in sauce (I like to use kitchen tongs to rotate each chicken breast 1-2 times).
- 5
Tent your baking dish with foil and transfer it to the oven. Bake, covered, for 20 minutes. Then uncover and continue to bake for an additional 5-15 minutes, or until internal temperature registers 160°F as measured with a digital meat thermometer.
- 6
Remove from the oven and allow your chicken to rest for 5 minutes before serving.