Healthy Game Day "Wings" Alternative: Buffalo Chicken Salad with Creamy Blue Cheese Dressing

With the big game approaching this weekend, I have been craving buffalo wings! So I put together this semi-healthy alternative for dinner tonight. It is way more filling for way less calories than a serving of wings!

Start off by mixing up the blue cheese dressing right away when you get home after work (let it sit at least 2 hours, but it can sit overnight as well) so that it has time to let the flavors mingle. Just mix a small container of Greek yogurt, about a cup (half of this container) of crumbled blue cheese and about 1/4 cup of water. Use a fork to mix everything together and work out some of the lumps from the chesse crumbles.

When it was almost time for dinner (about 15 minutes before you want to eat) boil some frozen chicken for about 12 minutes.

Do you ever cook chicken this way? Its a great way to take chicken from frozen to cooked in a short amount of time. I was cooking for 2 people, so I used 4 tenders, but you can use any amount of chicken you need, this is the type of recipe that can easily be scaled up or down as needed.

While the chicken was cooking I chopped up some veggies and lettuce to help cool down the heat from the buffalo hot sauce. Use whatever you want/have on hand. I used cucumber, carrot, avocado (sorry, I forgot the take a picture of this) and celery.

Then take the cooked chicken and using two forks, shred it in a medium sized bowl and then add in however much buffalo/hot sauce you are comfortable with. I probably added about 1/4 of a cup.

Then just build your salad, drizzling the dressing all around and adding some extra hot sauce and blue cheese crumbles on top!

From my mental math, I'm pretty sure that this salad is right around 400 calories (about 200 for the chicken, 125 for the dressing and the rest for the veggies). Not too bad for a very filling salad that takes care of that craving for buffalo chicken salad!

Here is the summary:

6oz Greek yogurt

1 cup blue cheese crumbles

1/4 cup water

Mix together dressing ingredients with a fork and let sit for at least 2 hours.

Lettuce

Assorted veggies (celery, cucumbers, carrots, avacados, whatever youve got)

4 chicken tenders (makes 2 servings)

1/4 cup hot sauce

Mix the hot sauce with the chicken and serve on top of salad with lots of dressing and some extra cheese crumbles.

Enjoy!