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updated: 04/07/26

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Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken is an easy four ingredient slow cooker recipe. Turn it into sandwiches, eat it on salads, or turn it into a dip. You’ll love it.

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In our house, there is nothing better than a fast and easy slow cooker dinner. We fall back on them all the time in our home; they make busy weeknights a breeze.

Crockpot Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches come together with just four ingredients in the slow cooker. They are incredible, and so easy to make!

How to Make Buffalo Chicken in the Slow Cooker

Combine the chicken, buffalo sauce, ranch seasoning, and butter in the base of your slow cooker. Cook on low for three hours. Then remove the chicken from the crockpot and shred it. I love to do this in the bowl of my stand mixer. Return the chicken to the slow cooker, toss it in the sauce and enjoy.

Overhead view of a crock pot of ingredients for Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken recipe.

How to Eat Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken

  • Make a Buffalo chicken sandwich topped with some Ranch dressing (or blue cheese dressing), or this Buffalo chicken version of a grilled cheese sandwich.
  • Add Buffalo chicken with some lettuce, shredded cheese, onion, and tomato to a tortilla to make a Buffalo chicken wrap.
  • Add it to a salad and top it with some ranch dressing.
  • Make a Buffalo Chicken Pizza.
  • Serve in tortillas or taco shells to make Buffalo chicken tacos.
  • Turn it into buffalo chicken dip by adding 8 ounces of cream cheese and 1/2 cup of blue cheese crumbles after shredding the chicken. Then continue cooking in the slow cooker for 20 minutes so everything melts.

Storing and Reheating Leftovers

Store any leftover crockpot Buffalo chicken in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to three days. Reheat only the portion you plan to eat in the microwave or in a small skillet over low heat.

This recipe can also bee frozen. Store in a container with room for it to expand and freeze for up to three months. Allow the chicken to thaw in the refrigerator overnight before warming and serving. Always use your best discretion when storing and reheating leftovers.

What to Serve With Buffalo Chicken

If you make this slow cooker Buffalo chicken recipe or any of my other recipes, I’d love to hear what you think and would be so grateful if you came back and left a comment!

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5 from 2 votes

Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken

Author: Lisa Longley
Serves: 5 servings
(tap # to scale)
Prep: 5 minutes
Cook: 4 hours
Total: 4 hours 5 minutes
Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken is an easy four ingredient slow cooker recipe. Turn it into sandwiches, eat it on salads, or turn it into a dip. You'll love it.

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Spray the crock pot with cooking spray.
  • Add the chicken breasts. Cover with the Buffalo sauce, Ranch seasoning, and add in the butter.
    1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, 12 ounces Buffalo sauce, 2 tablespoons Ranch seasoning, 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • Cook on low for 3 hours. Remove the chicken and shred. Return the chicken back to the slow cooker and toss with the sauce before serving.
  • Serve on sturdy hoagie rolls for sandwiches or see all of my ideas for serving in the post.

Recipe Video

Notes

Please note that the calorie information only reflects the shredded chicken in its sauce as buns and cheese calories vary so greatly.
Serving: 0.5cup Calories: 160kcal (8%) Carbohydrates: 3g (1%) Protein: 19g (38%) Fat: 7g (11%) Saturated Fat: 3g (19%) Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g Monounsaturated Fat: 2g Trans Fat: 0.2g Cholesterol: 70mg (23%) Sodium: 2642mg (115%) Potassium: 337mg (10%) Sugar: 0.004g Vitamin A: 167IU (3%) Vitamin C: 1mg (1%) Calcium: 6mg (1%) Iron: 0.3mg (2%)
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
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Lisa is the founder of Simple Joy. Lisa, is a self taught cook and avid lover of all things food, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For the last 10 years Lisa has been reading cookbooks, experimenting in the kitchen, and learning everything she possibly can about cooking. The result has been the ability to create recipes, both classics and new twists, that readers fall in love with and make with ease. Lisa loves not only providing delicious and easy recipes, but also giving the why behind what we are doing in the kitchen. She gets such great joy in sharing my love for food.

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Prior to becoming a food creator, Lisa was a social worker. She received her master’s in social work from the University of Milwaukee and worked in child welfare.

Lisa is the mom to four amazing kids: Gavin, Elliot, Quinn, and Piper. Gavin, Quinn, and Piper are happy, amazing kids she loves spending time with.

Her husband, Nathan, is her partner in life and in business. He is her rock in more ways than one and supports all of her crazy dreams.

Lisa and Nathan lost their second child, Elliot, when he was 8 days old. If you want to know more about Elliot, you can read it here. If you want to read more of Lisa’s experience of grief, you can read this post.

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  1. Brandy Hutchinson says

    How many calories does this meal have? My husband and I have been dieting so we are trying new recipes.

    • Lisa Longley says

      Apologies, Brandy! It is in there now!

  2. Laz says

    My crockpot doesn’t have a 3 hr. Low setting. It’s either 8 or 10 hrs at low. Do you mean 3 hrs. at high?

    • Lisa Longley says

      I’m really sorry, Laz. If you cook it on high for 3 hours, it will get very tried out.

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