Buffalo Chicken And Blue Ranch Statement Salad Recipes

BUFFALO CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Preheat a skillet over medium-high heat.
• Combine lettuce, carrots and celery in a salad bowl. Combine ranch dressing and blue cheese crumbles in a small bowl.
• Add oil and butter to hot pan with the chicken. Season with salt and pepper and sear for 2 or 3 minutes, then add hot sauce. Reduce heat a little and cook 5 minutes more.
• Toss salad with dressing and season with salt and pepper. Top salad with Buffalo chicken and serve.

BUFFALO CHICKEN AND BLUE RANCH STATEMENT SALAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Gather your ingredients.
• For the blue ranch: In a bowl, whisk up sour cream, buttermilk and juice of 1 lemon. Finely chop the herbs, peel and grate in garlic and add to dressing. Add salt and pepper. Taste dressing. Crumble the smoked blue cheese if using or just add the store-bought crumbles; stir in.
• For the buffalo chicken: Remove skin from chicken, remove the chicken from bones and pull, shred or chop into bite-size pieces. Heat a skillet over medium to medium-high heat and melt butter. When it foams, grate or chop the garlic and swirl in the butter for a minute. Add hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, chicken and stock and simmer until most of the liquids are absorbed. Remove from heat.
• For the salad: Core and chop iceberg lettuce and spread across a large cutting board. Chop romaine lettuce and scatter to combine with the iceberg lettuce. Arrange the chips on a tray and warm in oven 2 to 3 minutes. Thinly slice or cut radishes into matchsticks using a box grater or mandoline, and do the same with carrots. Thinly slice celery on bias and add all the vegetables to the salad.
• Top the salad with dressing, top the dressed greens with warm chips then with buffalo chicken and then top that with the scallions and pickled jalapenos.

SLOW-COOKER BUFFALO CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Place chicken in a 1-1/2- or 3-qt. slow cooker. Top with wing sauce, butter and ranch dressing mix. Cook, covered, on low until thermometer inserted in chicken reads 165°, 2-1/2 to 3 hours. , Remove chicken; shred with 2 forks. Reserve 1/3 cup cooking juices; discard remaining juices. Return chicken and reserved juices to slow cooker; heat through., Add romaine salad mix to a serving dish. Top with shredded chicken, carrots, avocado and blue cheese; drizzle with blue cheese dressing. Serve immediately.

CAST-IRON STEAKS

Steps:

• Step 1Pat steaks dry and season with kosher salt and pepper. Place on a baking sheet or in a shallow dish.Step 2Heat EVOO, anchovies, garlic, and rosemary in a small pot or skillet over medium heat, until anchovies melt, about 4 minutes. Pour mixture over steaks and turn to coat. Rest for 10 minutes.Step 3Meanwhile, heat a cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Add steaks and cook until medium or medium-rare, 5 to 7 minutes. The last 2 minutes of cooking, add lemon halves, cut-side down, to pan to caramelize. Remove lemons and steak to a cutting board. Let steaks rest 5 minutes and slice against the grain in 1/4-inch-thick slices. Squeeze lemon over steaks and scatter the green olives on top.

BANGIN' BUFFALO BLUE CHEESE CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Mix chicken, blue cheese dressing, bacon, mayonnaise, pecans, onion, celery, hot sauce, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, black pepper, salt, garlic, parsley, and paprika in a large bowl; refrigerate for flavors to blend, at least 1 hour.