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buffalo chicken stuffed peppers in a blue baking dish topped with blue cheese dressing
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Creamy Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Peppers

Everything you love about chicken wings is stuffed into bell peppers and topped with cheese. What's not to love?
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: American
Keyword: buffalo chicken, stuffed peppers
Servings: 6
Calories: 291kcal
Author: Andrea Mut

Ingredients

  • 3 large bell peppers
  • salt and pepper
  • 4 cups rotisserie chicken (1 whole chicken)
  • 1 cup old cheddar cheese, shredded
  • 2 sliced green onions, optional

Buffalo Sauce

  • cup Frank's Original Hot Sauce
  • 2 tablespoon Sambal Oelek, or other chili garlic sauce
  • ½ teaspoon Worchestershire Sauce
  • 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
  • ½ teaspoon garlic powder
  • ¼ cup sour cream or plain Greek yogurt

Blue Cheese Dressing

  • ½ cup mayonnaise
  • ½ cup plain yogurt
  • ½ cup Danish blue cheese crumbled
  • ½ teaspoon onion powder

Instructions

  • Pre-heat oven to 350 °F
  • Cut peppers in half lengthwise and remove the core and seeds. Place in a baking dish just big enough to fit the pepper halves or on a foil-lined tray. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and set aside.
  • Shred or chop rotisserie chicken and place in a bowl.
  • For the Buffalo sauce, mix together hot sauce, chili garlic sauce, Worcestershire vinegar, garlic powder, and sour cream until smooth. Stir into chicken until fully combined.
  • Stuff pepper halves with chicken mixture. Top with cheese and bake for 30 minutes.
  • Meanwhile, make the blue cheese dressing, Crumble blue cheese into a bowl. Add the mayonnaise, yogurt, and onion powder. Stir to combine well. If it's too thick for your liking add small amounts of water at a time to reach desired thickness. Set aside. You can also mix it in a blender or with a hand blender.
  • Serve the blue cheese dressing drizzled on top or on the side. Top with sliced green onions if desired.

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Notes

STORAGE: Keep covered in the fridge for 3 days or freeze in an airtight container for up to 3 months. See above for reheating instructions. 
MAKE IT VEGETARIAN: Replace chicken with crumbled tofu, tempeh, or beans.
See above post for more substitutions and variations. 
NUTRITION FACTS are based on one stuffed half a pepper with 2 oz of chicken and 1 tablespoon of blue cheese dressing. They are an estimate only and are calculated using an online calculator. 

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 291kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 21g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 72mg | Sodium: 2171mg | Potassium: 202mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g