Buffalo Recipes to Fire Up Your Game Day

Buffalo Wings
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Matt Taylor-Gross / Food Styling by Amelia Rampe

If there's one flavor we can't get enough of on game day, it's spicy, buttery buffalo-style sauce. And while we love a good buffalo chicken wing, there are so many more snacks that deserve the buffalo treatment. Here are some of our favorite buffalo-style appetizers and snacks, so you can add a little heat to your game day snack plan.

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Buffalo Chicken Dip

Buffalo Chicken Dip
© Abby Hocking

This crowd-pleasing dip, from Food & Wine's Justin Chapple, has all the punchy flavors of Buffalo chicken wings. It gets its creamy texture from a combination of cream cheese and sour cream. Serve it with tortilla chips and celery sticks.

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Buffalo Wings

Buffalo Wings

Matt Taylor-Gross / Food Styling by Amelia Rampe

There’s no substitute for a classic buffalo wing when it comes to snacking while watching a game or relaxing on a weekend afternoon. These wings are fried, then tossed in a buttery hot sauce and served with blue cheese dipping sauce and celery. The tangy blue cheese dressing is the perfect counterpart to the wings. 

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Buffalo Turkey Hand Pies

Buffalo Turkey Hand Pies
Photo: Jennifer Causey / Food stylist / Chelsea Zimmer / Prop stylist Kathleen Varner

These delicious, savory hand pies are made by filling store-bought puff pastry with diced leftover turkey that's been tossed with a Buffalo-style hot sauce. Feel free to use leftover rotisserie chicken instead.

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Buffalo and Blue Cheese Popcorn

Super Bowl Wing Popcorn
Sarah Crowder

This recipe is a smart way to bring buffalo wing vibes to the party when you'd rather not spend your time deep-frying and coating chicken wings. Half of the popcorn is tossed with a buttery buffalo wing sauce and the other half with blue cheese powder and celery salt. Mix them together and you get the flavors of buffalo wings dipped into blue cheese dressing in an easy snack.

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Buffalo Chicken Calzones

Buffalo Chicken Calzones
David Cicconi

To make the most of rotisserie chicken, F&W's Justin Chapple tosses it with a buttery buffalo-style sauce, then bakes it into a calzone with Monterey Jack cheese. In keeping with how traditional buffalo wings are served, he offers celery sticks and blue cheese alongside the calzone.

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Baked Buffalo Chicken Wings

Baked Buffalo Chicken Wings

Most of us think of buffalo wings as bar food, but with their accompaniment of celery sticks and creamy blue-cheese dressing, they make a fine casual meal. These wings are hot, but if you like them incendiary, pass extra hot sauce at the table.

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Classic Hot Wings

Classic Hot Wings
© Hector Sanchez

Wingettes and drumettes are often sold separately, but together, they're party wings. This wing recipe is classic; incredibly simple and flavorful.

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Buffalo Chicken Fajitas

Buffalo Chicken Fajitas
© Todd Porter & Diane Cu

Doused in a spicy buffalo-style sauce and nestled in a chewy tortilla, this mash-up of two game day classics can easily be scaled up or down, depending on your number of guests.

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