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Buffalo sauce is called after its metropolis of origin — Buffalo, New York — the place, in 1964, the Anchor Bar served up the first plate of Buffalo wings. The sauce was put collectively by Teressa Bellissimo, who paired the wings with blue cheese and celery as a result of that is what she had available. Bellissimo’s trick was combining sizzling sauce with melted butter, which minimize the peppery, vinegar-based sauce with fats and turned it right into a condiment good for coating fried rooster wings. You too can use it in, say, a Buffalo rooster calzone or Buffalo rooster dip. Nonetheless, rooster is not required to take pleasure in Buffalo sauce. Any meals that take properly to a sauce could possibly be Buffaloed, and these are a few of our game-day favorites.
Buffalo Rooster Dip
Abby Hocking
This tried-and-true social gathering dip makes use of cream cheese and bitter cream to make a tangy, ultra-creamy base that may deal with a hearty dose of sizzling sauce — ideally Frank’s RedHot. Serve with tortilla chips and celery sticks.
Buffalo Wings
Matt Taylor-Gross / Meals Styling by Amelia Rampe
A should on sport day, fried rooster wings meet their match in a Buffalo-style sauce of melted butter and sizzling sauce. Mood the warmth with blue cheese dip and celery served on the facet.
Buffalo and Blue Cheese Popcorn
With a just-right combine of warmth and tacky richness, this popcorn will get break up: half tossed in Buffalo sauce, the opposite in blue cheese powder with celery salt. It’s a playful tackle commonplace game-day snacks.
Buffalo Rooster Sliders with Dill Pickle Slaw
Meals & Wine / Photograph by Sara Haas
These creative sliders are certain to please any Buffalo sauce devotee. Grilled and shredded Buffalo rooster is topped with thinly sliced rings of crimson onion and tangy pickle slaw studded with blue cheese crumbles, guaranteeing every chunk is a perfect mixture of taste and texture.
Buffalo Pigs in a Blanket
Meals & Wine / Photograph by Victor Protasio / Meals Styling by Emily Nabors Corridor / Prop Styling Claire Spollen
Swap the egg wash or butter for Buffalo sauce and brush it over the crescent dough to pack in that cayenne kick earlier than wrapping smoky cocktail franks. Serve the zesty bites with a cool, tangy blue cheese dip.
Buffalo Turkey Hand Pies
Jennifer Causey / Meals Styling by Chelsea Zimmer / Prop Styling by Kathleen Varner
Brimming with turkey, celery, and cheese filling and coated in Buffalo-style sizzling sauce, plates and forks aren’t required for this flaky hand pie recipe. Be at liberty to make use of leftover rotisserie rooster as a substitute.
Buffalo Rooster Burgers
Greg DuPree / Meals Styling by Chelsea Zimmer / Prop Styling by Claire Spollen
Topped with a blue cheese–celery slaw, these spicy sizzling sauce–seasoned rooster burgers function all of the flavors of Buffalo wings and blue cheese dressing.
Buffalo Rooster Calzones
These calzones are each transportable and stuffed with flavorful rotisserie rooster, Buffalo sauce, and Monterey Jack cheese. Remember the celery sticks and blue cheese on the facet for a profitable mixture.
