Well, Rebecca in the Wisconsin Test Kitchen. After a traumatic experience (not food related!) at a Buffalo Wild Wings, she's been unable to eat chicken wings again. Think: post traumatic stress disorder, involving chicken wings. But we digress.
Despite her recently acquired dislike for the humble chicken wing, she still loves the flavor of a good spicy wing sauce, creamy ranch dressing and some blue cheese. Yum. So, the Wisconsin Test Kitchen tried to recreate all the flavors of chicken wings without the actual, well, wings.
Buffalo Chicken Quinoa
2 cups cooked, chopped chicken breast meat
2 cups cooked quinoa
3 stalks celery, diced
3/4 cup wing sauce of your choice (we prefer Uncle Dougie's)
1/4 cup ranch dressing
Blue cheese crumbles
Combine chicken and celery, adding wing sauce until well coated.
Stir in the quinoa and ranch dressing.
Adjust seasonings (add more wing sauce if you like heat, add more ranch dressing to tone down the heat).
Serve topped with blue cheese crumbles.
From start to finish, this recipe took about 20 minutes (most of the time was dedicated to cooking the quinoa): and it was a dinner the adult members of the test kitchen enjoyed (too spicy for the youngest member). But when you're craving wings, this is a healthy alternative and fast to prepare. It doesn't get any better than that!
Stay Cool,
The Cool Dads Crew
No comments:
Post a Comment