Crock-Pot Shredded Buffalo Chicken

Two for One

We’re all about cooking once and eating twice. In short, double dinners are better. Show us how you take a favorite recipe already on your blog – and ReDux the leftovers into a new dish. Or, whip up a new healthy recipe and give suggestions on how to make it a second meal. For example, slow cooker pot roast could become shredded beef tacos; or grilled chicken breasts might morph into chicken salad.

For this months Recipe Redux challenge I chose to whip up a new recipe, as it finally gave me a chance to recreate a chicken salad recipe I’ve been wanting to do for some time now. One of my favorite lunch spots here in Charlotte is a local place called Mayobird that serves around 15 different types of chicken salad. One of mine and my husbands favorite flavor is the Buffalo, made with buffalo wing sauce. After planning out this months redux challenge I knew this Crock-Pot Shredded buffalo chicken would make the perfect base for my chicken salad.

This Crock-Pot Shredded Buffalo Chicken is so simple to put together and it makes enough food for two different meal options, possibly more depending on the size of your family. All it takes is five minutes of prep work and a couple of hours in the crock pot for this goodness to come about.

 

Since I’ve already started telling you about the chicken salad being the inspiration for the buffalo shredded chicken I will give you that meal idea and recipe first. Like I mentioned earlier based on the size of your family you should have enough shredded chicken leftover to have this chicken salad for lunch (or dinner) for several days even after you make the other meal that I will share with you in a minute. This shredded buffalo chicken salad is perfect served over top a salad, alongside some crackers or made into a sandwich or wrap for a quick and healthy lunch.

Meal #1

Shredded Buffalo Chicken Salad

Ingredients:
– 2 cups crock-pot shredded buffalo chicken
– 1-2 celery stalks, diced
– 1/3 cup Plain non fat Greek Yogurt

Directions:
1. In a medium-sized bowl add the shredded chicken, celery and Greek Yogurt and mix well.

Meal #2

Sweet Potato Nachos are the second meal that comes from the beloved crock-pot shredded buffalo chicken. This can easily be served as a main dish, which is how we eat them, but they would also make a great appetizer, especially for game days. Unlike the typical calorie laden nachos you order at restaurants these sweet potato nachos are nutritious and full of veggies. Instead of chips, roasted sweet potatoes are used in it’s place. I chose to forgo the cheese sauce and just add blue cheese crumbles since a little goes a long way. Not to mention buffalo sauce and blue cheese is pretty much a match made in heaven. We eat sweet potato nachos often in our house but this was the first time adding meat over top and it was most definitely the right thing to do.  These nachos are healthy, filling and delicious.