If you love anything buffalo flacor and you love cheese, you are going to fall in love with our Buffalo Muenster Chicken Skillet! This is one of Matt's spur of the moment ideas where he had to see it through. Although I did the cooking, he insisted on taking credit for it. I was actually very impressed with this dish and find myself day dreaming about it.
Why we Love One-Pan Chicken Recipes
What's not to love about a one pan recipe?! All the ingredients are combined in one pan and you could serve it up family style. Although I create the buffalo sauce in a separate saucepan, you could technically just add all the components to the chicken and make the clean up even easier. Trust me though, you want to use the exact buffalo sauce recipe I gave you below, it's incredible.
Some of our Best Chicken Recipes!
This is definitely high up on the list of one of our best chicken recipes. Both Matthew and I prefer chicken over any other meat, so we definitely don't skimp on great chicken recipes. If you are at all like us or at least enjoy your fair share or chicken you must give our Low Carb Chicken Chili and Easy Cashew Chicken a try! Check out all of our keto chicken recipes.
Buffalo Muenster Chicken Skillet
Skillet recipes are great meals to turn to any night of the week. They are quick to put together and can feed a family of two, four or six people! This recipe in particular can be tailored to whatever cheese and hot sauce you have in the fridge.
Although I said the buffalo sauce in this recipe is incredible, and I wasn't joking. I know many of you have a hot sauce preference and I respect that. Just remember that when it comes to chicken skillet recipes it's important to have a little fun and make sure you over do it on the cheese portion hehe.
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Buffalo Muenster Chicken Skillet
Ingredients:
Buffalo Sauce
- 3/4 cup Franks Red Hot Sauce
- 3 tbsp Butter
- 1.5 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp garlic powder
Chicken Skillet
- 1.5 lbs Boneless/Skinless Chicken Thighs
- 5 slices muenster cheese
- 1/4 tsp Pink Himalayan Salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
Instructions:
- Combine butter, hot sauce, garlic powder and apple cider vinegar in a sauce pan on lot heat.
- Trim excess fat from thighs and pat dry. Season on both sides with salt and pepper.
- Heat a large skillet over medium high heat and add coconut oil/ghee.
- Place chicken thighs into pan in an even layer and allow to cook 3/4 of the way through.
- Flip the thighs and cook for additional minute.
- Pour the buffalo sauce mixture over the chicken thighs and allow to cook for an additional 5-7 minutes. Thighs should be fully cooked at this point.
- Place a slice of cheese over each thigh and cover the skillet with a lid for 3-5 minutes. The cheese will have fully melted into chicken and sauce.
- Serve immediately and enjoy!
Notes
Written by
Megha Barot
Megha has always been a passionate cook, but she took this to a new level after starting her keo journey in 2015. She loves creating new recipes and producing educational content for KetoConnect, which she co-founded in 2016 with Matt. Her passion for healthy eating and personal development continues to thrive. She's the proud mom of two awesome kids.
Is there a recipe for just the buffalo sauce in this recipe? I am trying to figure out the nutrition and servings for myfitnesspal due to I want to use of shrimp tonight for supper!
Yes, we include only the sauce above in the recipe. Just input those ingredients into my fitness pal (create a recipe in my fitness pal) and cut it into however many servings you want 🙂
Do we drain the excess oil in the pan
We didn’t!
can we use chicken breast or are thighs and legs better?
You can use chicken breast, but we prefer thighs since they are fattier.
Hi, I looked at the net carbs and it says 5.8g but I looked at the ingredients and I’m not sure where the carbs come from? How did you guys calculate it? Thanks.
#1 should say “low” heat, right?
Yes! Thank you
I doubled the recipe to feed my whole family. It was so good my husband couldn’t stop talking about it. I’m struggling not to go eat all the leftovers right now, it’s that good!
Haha, that always a good problem to have! Thanks for making it 🙂
Made this tonight and couldn’t even wait to load dishes to comment – Amazing! We are semi-new to this way of eating and your recipes and videos have been a life saver for us especially with two very active (sports wise) kids who are very opinionated! We are having great results , thumbs up all around, please keep up the good work!
P.S. Your Keto on $5 a day was passed on to a family member in distress and has helped immensely, thank you!
Aww thanks so much for your support and commenting to let us know! It means a lot when people find purpose in our recipes and our meal plans 🙂
Where do the carbs come from in this recipe?
The sauce and the cheese.
Holy smokes Batman! Delicious
Hey guys! I made this recipe tonight and it was yummy… sometimes you just have a hankering for some buffalo chicken 🙂 Thanks again for a tasty recipe! Oh, I served it with a spinach salad with walnuts and cherry tomatoes
Can chicken breast be used instead? I’m not a fan of dark meat chicken.
Yep, that will work perfectly.
Made this tonight and it was out of this world delish! Thank you for sharing your recipes. I also made the rosemary bread and loved it. I am trying to account for carb count. The chicken, red sauce and cheese have zero carbs. So where are the carbs coming from?
The red sauce and cheese have some carbs, even if the ones you’re using are listed as 0. Particularly the sauce. It is mostly carbs, it just using a very small serving size on the back label and rounds down to 0 carbs.
I tried this recipe last night, and OMG this is crack chicken! I couldn’t believe how delicious it was. I wanted more, I wanted to lick the plate (and almost did – I’m not a proud person lol). Amazing…and I can’t wait to try more of your recipes. So glad I found your website, thank goodness for Pinterest. 🙂
Hi Jennifer! Thanks so much for trying it out and sharing – yes, it is plate lick worthy!
I’m new to your site, but I’m looking forward to trying this recipe tomorrow. I’m always looking for low carb/no carb recipes. Hope to be a repeat visitor. 🙂
We hope you’re a repeat visitor too 🙂
I made this for dinner tonight and it was DELICIOUS!!! Thank you so much for this recipe!
Yay! Definitely one of our favorites – we are obsessed with buffalo sauce!
I made this tonight with the Rosemary bread and baked cauliflower! It was so amazing!!!!! Sadly there are no leftovers so I can’t have any tomorrow…. but our 4 children have told us we can always make more tomorrow. So there is that! You guys make so many great recipes. My husband and I love your stuff! God bless!
We’re so glad you enjoyed it Teresa!
I’m not even a fan of buffalo flavored foods, but this was so amazing and easy to do. The only problem is now I’m really fighting just eating every last bit of the leftovers and blaming it on the cat.
The cats are always to blame!!
Y’all are killing it with your recipes. Love Frank’s Red Hot. Just out of curiosity what side would you recommend w/ this dish if I had a certain family member expect that a veggie side will be available when the meal is meat heavy?
We did a spinach salad with walnuts, fresh mozzarella cheese, and a vinegarette. It paired really well with the spiciness of the chicken.
I might have a muenster addiction, so I can’t wait to try this recipe.
Quick question: Was your 1.5 lbs of boneless thighs equal to five thighs, making each serving one thigh?
Thanks!
If your advocating Keto why would you trim the excess fat off of the chicken thighs. Keto is a high fat low carb way of eating so keeping the fat would be good right?
Because the way this dish is cooked the fat doesn’t render so it wouldn’t be the best consistency. Feel free to leave it on if you’d like.