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The Best Homemade Buffalo Sauce

December 24, 2018 By Robin 7 Comments

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Simple Buffalo Sauce – A simple sauce that is slightly spicy, with a little heat and a nice buttery texture. This buffalo sauce is a milder and more sumptuous form of hot sauce and tastes amazing smothered over chicken wings or used to replace traditional hot sauce.

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Simple Buffalo Sauce - A simple sauce that is slightly spicy, with a little heat and a nice buttery texture. This buffalo sauce is a milder and more sumptuous form of hot sauce and tastes amazing smothered over chicken wings or used to replace traditional hot sauce.

Chicken wings are one of our families favorite finger foods. Whenever there’s a game on you’re sure to find a plate of chicken wings. One of our favorite ways to season the wings is with buffalo sauce, I don’t mean the kind that is bottled, I mean real authentic buffalo sauce, made at home.

Before I share this delicious, finger lickin’ buffalo sauce recipe, you should know that buffalo sauce isn’t just for wings, there are so many other delicious ways that it can be used. For instance, you might want to try it over some cauliflower, or as a sauce for a pizza. One of my favorite ways to use it though, is a sauce for my grilled cheese sandwich, it’s amazing. If you want more ideas on other uses you should check out Pinterest there are a lot of ideas there.

What unique way would you use the buffalo sauce?

Simple Buffalo Sauce

Franks Red Hot Sauce: I use Franks hot pepper sauce because it was the secret ingredient in the original buffalo sauce that was created back in 1964. In my opinion, Franks is the only pepper sauce that will give you that true, authentic buffalo flavor.

Butter: Truthfully, you could get away with eliminating the butter, but I don’t suggest doing it. Yes it may be a little less fattening, but the butter adds a really nice flavor to the sauce as well as acting as a binder, helping the sauce to stick to the wings.

Tabasco Sauce: This ingredient is totally optional, it was never an ingredient in the original buffalo sauce. The reason I suggest using it is for those who really like some heat. The flavor of the Tabasco is one of the only sauces that I’ve found that compliments the flavor of buffalo sauce.

Instructions

Step 1: Combine the Frank’s red hot sauce, butter, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, and cayenne pepper in a medium sauce pan. Cook over medium heat until the butter melts, then simmer for 5 minutes, stirring often.

Step 2: Remove the pan from heat and allow to cool for a few minutes, the sauce will thicken as it cools. Stir in salt and add Tabasco sauce if you desire more heat.

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A simple sauce that is slightly spicy, with a little heat and a nice buttery texture. This buffalo sauce is a milder and more sumptuous form of hot sauce and tastes amazing smothered over chicken wings or used to replace traditional hot sauce.
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The Best Homemade Buffalo Sauce

Prep Time5 minutes mins
Cook Time10 minutes mins
Total Time15 minutes mins
Course: Sauce
Cuisine: American
Servings: 3 cups
Author: Robin | Fluster Buster

Ingredients

  • 1 1/3 cup Frank's red hot sauce
  • 1 cup 2 sticks butter
  • 3 tablespoons white vinegar
  • 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • salt to taste
  • Tabasco sauce optional

Instructions

  • Combine hot sauce, butter, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, and cayenne pepper over medium sauce pan. Cook over medium heat until butter melts then simmer for 5 minutes, stirring often.
  • Combine hot sauce, butter, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, and cayenne pepper over medium sauce pan. Cook over medium heat until butter melts then simmer for 5 minutes, stirring often.
  • Remove pan from heat and allow to cool a few minutes, sauce will thicken as it cools. Stir in salt and add Tabasco sauce if more heat is desired..

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Tips

✔ This recipe makes enough sauce to cover about 5 pounds of chicken wings. Plus there will be a little leftover for dipping.

✔ To kick up the heat, add Tabasco sauce a few drops at a time until you reach the desired heat level.

✔ Refrigerate leftover sauce in an air-tight container for 1-2 weeks.

✔ If the sauce separates, put it in the microwave for a minute it will smooth out the sauce.

Simple Buffalo Sauce - A simple sauce that is slightly spicy, with a little heat and a nice buttery texture. This buffalo sauce is a milder and more sumptuous form of hot sauce and tastes amazing smothered over chicken wings or used to replace traditional hot sauce.

Simple Buffalo Sauce - A simple sauce that is slightly spicy, with a little heat and a nice buttery texture. This buffalo sauce is a milder and more sumptuous form of hot sauce and tastes amazing smothered over chicken wings or used to replace traditional hot sauce.


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Comments

  1. Life Diet Health says

    January 14, 2019 at 7:38 am

    Oh yum! Buffalo cauliflower it will be (wings for the boys though)! How fantastic that you make your own sauce! Thanks for sharing your recipe at Fiesta Friday (don’t forget to add your party links for a chance to be featured the following week)!

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  2. Miz Helen says

    January 14, 2019 at 5:08 pm

    5 stars
    This will be a great sauce for those awesome Chicken Wings! Hope you are having a great week and thanks so much for sharing your post with us at Full Plate Thursday!
    Miz Helen

    Reply
  3. Debra says

    January 16, 2019 at 9:09 pm

    This recipe looks so good. I can’t wait to try it. Thanks for sharing at the Snickerdoodle Create Bake Make Party.

    Reply
  4. Ali B says

    January 18, 2019 at 3:52 am

    I can’t wait to try this! We love buffalo wings and I’ve wanted to learn to make them at home. Thanks for sharing on The Ultimate Pinterest Party last week!

    Reply

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