Make every night taco night with these super easy Buffalo Chicken Tacos. Featuring frozen boneless chicken bites, fresh celery slaw, spicy buffalo sauce, and a rich, creamy blue cheese aioli, these baked chicken tacos pack all the delicious flavor!
Hi friends! Happy taco Thursday! Yes, you heard me right. We are making tasty tacos on Thursdays a thing, because why should Tuesday have all the fun??
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About these buffalo chicken tacos
I hope you weren’t expecting regular chicken tacos, because today is all about fully-loaded crispy chicken tacos.
These superbly scrumptious tacos are made easy-peasy thanks to the frozen food section of your favorite grocery store. Simply look for your favorite boneless chicken bites or boneless wings, or even chicken tenders. To keep things healthy use grilled chicken, or to make things crispy and delicious use fried chicken. You’ll be topping your chicken buffalo tacos with homemade accoutrements that will make this taco recipe next level yum!
What’s in chicken buffalo tacos?
These tacos are all about the layers of delicious flavors and textures: spicy, savory; crunch, creamy!
- Buffalo chicken: Crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, baked Chicken Bites are coated in a spicy, bold bodacious buffalo sauce.
- Celery slaw: Crunchy, crisp, fresh, veggie packed slaw loaded with celery, studded with cabbage, carrots, red onion, and parsley and tossed with a light, tangy mayonnaise n’ greek yogurt dressing.
- Taco sauce: Creamy, chunky, funky, flavorful blue cheese aioli.
- Tortillas: ALL piled HIGH and loaded into a lightly toasted, warm corn tortilla.
These tacos are a dance party for your taste buds. Perfect for an easy weeknight dinner or your next football soiree, these tacos are what SHOULD be happening!
Tips for these baked chicken tacos
- Chicken: You can use any type of bite-size breaded (or non-breaded!) frozen chicken you love. Tyson and Perdue make great buffalo-style chicken bites. Or for a healthier option, use diced chicken breasts or grilled chicken chunks.
- Easy slaw: Save time by using a bag of shredded coleslaw mix instead of fresh cabbage and carrots.
- Prep in advance: You can prepare the vegetables for the celery slaw a day in advance. However, don’t combine them with the dressing until ready to serve.
- Dressing slaw: When dressing your taco coleslaw, start with about ½ of the dressing, then add more to taste if you like your slaw extra creamy.
- Aioli: To save even more time, you can swap out the blue cheese aioli for your favorite thick and creamy blue cheese dressing.
Say adios tacos only on Tuesday, make them a repeat performance with these Crispy Buffalo Chicken Tacos.
Until next week friends, cheers! To buffalo tacos – the answer to all life’s questions.
Cheyanne
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How to make crispy chicken tacos with buffalo sauce!👇
Buffalo Chicken Tacos Recipe
Ingredients
- 16 Ounces Buffalo-Style Boneless Chicken Bites, Nuggets or Tenders
- Tortillas - corn or flour (toasted or warmed)
- Kosher Salt & Ground Black Pepper
- Celery Slaw:
- ½ Cup Mayonnaise
- ¼ Cup Greek Yogurt or Sour Cream
- ¼ Cup Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 tsp Mustard Powder
- 1 clove Garlic – minced
- 1/3 small head Green Cabbage – cored and shredded
- 4 Stalks Celery – thinly sliced and leaves left whole
- 1 Large Carrot – shredded
- ½ Red Onion – thinly sliced
- 1/3 Cup Fresh Flat Leaf Parsley – chopped
- Blue Cheese Aioli: (You can substitute your favorite blue cheese dressing instead)*
- ½ Cup Mayonnaise
- 1 tsp Grainy Dijon Mustard
- 1 clove Garlic – minced
- 3 ounces Blue Cheese - crumbled
- 1 TBS White Wine Vinegar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Line a sheet pan with aluminum foil and spray with non-stick cooking spray for easy clean up. Thaw the buffalo sauce in hot water for 6-8 minutes.
- Make the dressing for the slaw*: In a large bowl whisk together the mayonnaise, sour cream, cider vinegar, mustard and garlic. Season with ¼ teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Set aside.
- Bake the Chicken Bites: Arrange the Chicken Bites on the prepared sheet pan and bake according to recipe instructions. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 1-2 minutes before tossing with the buffalo sauce.
- Meanwhile, make the aioli*: In a small bowl whisk together all ingredients. Taste and adjust for seasoning with salt and pepper. Set aside.
- And, assemble the slaw: Add the cabbage, celery, carrot, red onion and parsley to the slaw dressing. Toss to coat. Taste and adjust for seasoning with salt and pepper.
- Serve the tacos: Pile the buffalo chicken into the tortillas. Top with slaw and drizzle with aioli. Enjoy!
Notes
*You can substitute your favorite blue cheese dressing for the blue cheese aioli.
*The blue cheese aioli can be made 3 days in advance, covered tightly and stored in the refrigerator.
*The dressing for the slaw can be made a day in advance, covered tightly and stored it in the refrigerator. Allow the dressing to sit on the counter at room temperature for 30 minutes before using.
Hey Cheyanne, these look amazing and right up my alley! Can’t wait to try them. Great photos too, by the way!
I can never get enough tacos and I’m always up for buffalo chicken ANYTHING. This is my kind of fusion dish!
I’m with you! Tacos all week long! And especially buffalo chicken tacos. yum!! two of my favorites in one dish. sign me up!
I was scrolling through Foodgawker when this picture came up. I knew that it was a No Spoon Necessary picture immediately. You’ve got a distinctive style! Wonderful recipe and great pictures!
ANOTHER. GENIUS. RECIPE. Can I just please move in with you? I do dishes! 🙂 Adding this to my Must Make Taco List, because these need to happen! xoxo!
Looks great Cheyanne, sounds like my kinda taco!
Every night taco night – what a beautiful concept 😉 Completely agree with you – there surely can’t be a personality type that does not match with the combo of crispy chicken and tacos. Fabulous & delicious everyday recipe! Thanks for sharing!
Miriam
http://www.londonktichendiaries.com
I loooove buffalo chicken!!!! What an easy way to get tacos on the plate and delicious.
I could eat tacos any night of the week especially if it’s these. I absolutely love anything Buffalo and anything blue cheese! Have a great weekend! Take care!!
Oh, I am in love with chicken tacos Cheyanne! Buffalo chicken bites look so rich and delicious. I want to have these beauties for my dinner sometime real soon. And blue cheese aioli is an incredible idea, girl. So many awesome flavors going on here, and after looking those crisp pictures I can almost feel the texture. Wish I could grab a few of them through my computer screen. Major drooling. Tons of flavor — I can almost taste it. Wish you a fun filled weekend, girl. Cheers. 🙂
I’ve eaten a lot of sad fast food tacos in my day. Oh my gosh do these make up for them. Buffalo chicken, Cheyanne?! Really? I want to shove these in my mouth like Garfield with lasagna!
YAYYYYYY For tacos everyday!!!! I always get confused if it’s taco Tuesday or Taco Thursday so when tacos as delicious as these are involved – Taco EVVVVERRRRYYYYDAY works so darn well for moi! And – I so enjoy visiting you here because of “Me + sharing random 411 = life fulfillment” and of course your recipes! Fantastic use of Farm Rich Buffalo Style Boneless Chicken Bites and ooh that Celery Slaw with cabbage sounds delicious all by itself – but paired with Farm Rich Chicken Bites and that Blue Cheese Aioli – why, Cheyanne, it’s EPIC!
I hope you have an epic-ally splendiferous weekend, sweet friend! xoxo
My kiddos would love this taco for sure. I love the blue cheese aioli myself and I could put that on everything!
I’m drinking my morning tea and reading your blog, looking at this amazing tacos, AND THEN I come to adjectives “crunchy, crispy, fresh, tender, creamy” which only enhance my desire to devour this tacos like right now 😀 Tacos looks amazing Cheyanne! I’m drooling just so you know that. Cheers to Tacos at least 2 times a week!
Happy taco Thursday 🙂 These chicken bites look awesome and the tacos, too! Love buffalo chicken, need to make these!
Girl you got me at those crispy chicken bites!! YUM YUM!! I need these super soon in my belly!
Yes please! You had me at “buffalo”! Those crispy chicken bites look delicious and love the celery slaw and taco-izing 🙂
Oh girl, as long as there’s an alliteration somewhere, I’ll take it! 😉 Happily! Especially if tacos are involved. 😉 Mah bestie + random 411 + Taco Thursdays = all I need to be happy. 🙂 <3 You've GOT to find this personality/flavor combo chart and share with me! Cinnamon + sugar is SO perfect for you. I mean, sweet and a subtle, but totally kick butt spice? YES. That's exactly how I'd describe you. Also, sassy AF. 🙂 These buffalo bites TOTALLY remind me of that famous recipe you created for chicken nuggets in that magazine feature <— okay, wow, I just felt so proud to say that mah bestie was in a magazine feature. 🙂 You come up with the tastiest idea, for real. Can't wait to chat and swap kitchen fun stories this weekend! Muah. xoxoxo
My personality is probably matched up with pizza…I have a feeling it wouldn’t be far off from that.
A cute little seaside taco place always made buffalo chicken tacos (along with every other kind of taco) and I would always get the buffalo chicken tender tacos. They are SO good! Except sometimes different locations would make them a little spicier than others. I’m sure making it at home would be a lot easier/delicious/fantastic. Have a fabulous day, Cheyanne!
Oh my – you guys eat gooooood! I’m ridiculously smitten with any kind of chicken tender so this has my attention and my heart! The famiglia will love these for taco Thursday, Saturday, Sunday…. you get the picture! Of course you do – you ‘re the pioneer! Have a happy weekend, my friend! Cheers! XO
I love these tacos Cheyanne! Gotta try these for dinner asap. So easy with these delicious Farm Rich buffalo bites. Blue cheese is the jam for sure in this ailoli sauce. Tons of flavor — I can almost taste it. Haven’t taken any food/personality tests yet myself – but can give you some results for those in my immediate family. I’m “testing” them all the time,just haven’t mentioned that to them yet. My kitchen is my secret testing site. Ha ha. Have a super week, Friday is a-coming! YAY!!! XOXO
I’m thinking my food pairing would go the chocolate route, but hay, if butter or bread is there I know it’s good! Like these tasty tacos, love the aioli mix here with the vinegar, too. You’re making me want lunch and I haven’t finished my coffee yet. 🙂
I 100% think tacos should not be limited to Tuesdays! Who comes up with this stuff anyway? These delicious buffalo chicken tacos should be available every dang day of the week – and especially during football games! BTW – I’m INTJ personality. What’s my food pairing? 🙂 XO
There’s absolutely no reason why there can’t be a taco Thursday. There should be tacos every day! I love that you made buffalo chicken tacos, and that slaw and aioli sounds amazing! These would be so awesome for game day too!
My kids would be so into these tacos! No matter what night.
My son Casey, aka the king of chicken nuggets/tenders, loves those Farm Rich chicken bites! Ha! But since he’s exactly like his father, I’ll be eating all the celery slaw and blue cheese aioli! I know what’s good Chey and that slaw and aioli sound amazing! What a way to jazz up chicken bites! You’ve done it again Miss Creativity! Well done! Happy weekend! XO
First, tacos should totally be an every night thing! I mean, you just can’t go wrong with tacos. And two, I had no idea about this personality / food pairings business. I must look mine up! So curious! haha These tacos look fantastic – between the crispy chicken and that slaw?? I’ll take a few! For breakfast … is that weird? Don’t answer that 🙂
Oh I definitely want to see what my personality matches up to in food pairings! And I’m the same as you, I could bathe in cinnamon (and garlic if it wasn’t so stinky!) if it was acceptable. But, yes, I really think every day should be taco day, especially when these beauties are involved. I love the mashup of buffalo chicken flavor, Cheyanne! This looks AMAZING! Like I could eat it for breakfast right about now. Pinned, of course! Hope you have a wonderful weekend, friend!
Wonder what my food pairing would be? I’m sure it would be something with butter, lol 😀 Loves me some butter. Cheese is good too. Then, again so are fries. I think I just love it all! Hahaha! Oh, girl, these tacos look deadly! You really amped up the ol’ flavour kick with that blue cheese aioli and celery slaw. I would devour these in no time and come back for seconds! Pinned! Hope you have a fab weekend, my friend! xo
We don’t eat enough tacos in Europe, your pictures look so amazing I could imagine eating them all week long. And by the way you write, I never would have thought you are an introvert… 🙂
Cinnamon and sugar, huh? I think that’s a pretty good match! I’m INFJ, so very close – I’ll have to go look up with my food pairing is 🙂
It may be tacos though… especially these buffalo chicken ones! Hello, FLAVOR! These are loaded up and yet still so easy. You know that’s a win in my book. Great for dinner, or yes, for an easy game-day platter for a crowd. Gonna have to try out Farm Rich and make me some tacos soon! No matter the day of the week, because yes, they are appropriate ANY time!!
Hope you have a wonderful weekend girl! XO
Okay, so I just want to put that blue cheese sauce on everything! Is that okay?
I am all about the tacos and celery slaw sounds delicious too.
There’s wine and food pairing, beer and food pairing.. so personality and food pairing sounds just right! These tacos look mouthwatering! I first mistook those buffalo chicken as buffalo cauliflowers :-)))