Buffalo Chicken Breast Bake

This Buffalo Chicken Breast Bake is an easy, healthy, and gluten-free buffalo chicken style casserole!

It is the perfect meal for football Sunday, giving you all those buffalo wing flavors... but as a buffalo chicken casserole

I prefer to use a mild sauce to keep the heat down and adding either cream cheese or ranch at the end helps to cool down the spice.

All you need to do is place all ingredients in a baking dish, stir, and bake.

What do you need:

• 1 cup quinoa
• 1 cup buffalo sauce: (I prefer the brand The New Primal) and use mild!
• 1 cup chicken broth
• ½ cup diced celery
• ½ cup chopped or shredded carrots
• 1 bag cauliflower rice
• 3 large chicken breasts cut into 1 inch chunks: or use cooked shredded chicken!

Toppings: chives, cream cheese or ranch

To scale recipe: simply double all ingredients

Substitutions:
to make it vegetarian: try using large cauliflower florets rather than chicken and use veggie broth

If you wanted to make this a paleo buffalo chicken casserole, use fresh cauliflower rice or cooked spaghetti squash instead of quinoa.

Over the Spoon for...

High in protein

 Great Source of Amino Acids from Quinoa

Makes the perfect football Sunday Meal

How to make:

1. Preheat oven to 375
2. Chop all vegetables and dice chicken
3. Place Quinoa, vegetables, and Chicken in dish
4. Stir in broth and sauce- mix thoroughly
5. Cover in foil and cook at 375 for 45 minutes with foil on.
6. Remove foil, stir, and cook for additional 15 minutes or until quinoa has absorbed liquid.
7. Top with chives and serve each bowl with either a small scoop of cream cheese stirred in or ranch dressing.

Leftovers: This lasts about 5 days in the fridge and makes great leftovers

Serve with: This is a full casserole style meal on it's own but could be served with a side salad

If you are a fan of these quinoa bakes, try my Healthy Pizza Quinoa Bake Recipe   or Chicken Fajita Quinoa Casserole.

Or if you'd like some buffalo wings-try this Healthy Chicken Drumstick Recipe using buffalo sauce!

Buffalo Chicken Breast Bake

A healthy football Sunday Buffalo Casserole

5 from 4 votes

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 1 hr

Total Time 1 hr 10 mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Servings 6

Calories 255 kcal

Ingredients

  

• 1 cup quinoa
• 1 cup buffalo sauce
• 1 cup broth
• ½ cup diced celery
• ½ cup chopped or shredded carrots
• 1 bag frozen or fresh cauliflower rice
• 3 large chicken breasts, cut into 1 inch chunks

Toppings

• ½ tbsp whipped cream cheese stirred into each bowl
• 1 tbsp ranch drizzled over bowl
• chopped chives

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 375
• Chop all vegetables and dice chicken
• Place Quinoa, vegetables, and Chicken in dish
• Stir in broth and sauce- mix thoroughly
• Stir in broth and sauce- mix thoroughly
• Remove foil, stir, and cook for additional 15 minutes or until quinoa has absorbed liquid.
• Top with chives and serve each bowl with either a small scoop of cream cheese stirred in or ranch dressing.

Keyword casserole, Healthy Recipe