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:
- Preheat oven to 375
- Chop all vegetables and dice chicken
- Place Quinoa, vegetables, and Chicken in dish
- Stir in broth and sauce- mix thoroughly
- Cover in foil and cook at 375 for 45 minutes with foil on.
- 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.
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
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.
Easy and delectable!
Easy and delectable!
My go-to Sunday meal!
My go-to Sunday meal!