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These crispy Buffalo Chicken Bites have the perfect touch of spice and are made totally gluten-free and paleo-friendly! Chicken breasts is cut up, dipped in batter and pan-seared before being coated in the easiest buffalo sauce. Perfect for an appetizer or for dinner when served with your favorite side.
Crispy Buffalo Chicken Bites
Buffalo Chicken Bites are our new favorite appetizer, snack, or chicken dinner that nobody will guess is completely allergy-friendly! They are easy to make (watch the video below), and are both kid-friendly and a hit with adults as well. Serve with your favorite side for dinner or dish up for game day with ranch or blue cheese and all the cut up veggies.
Ingredients Needed
- Avocado Oil
- Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast
- Eggs
- Tapioca Flour
- Salt and Pepper
- Hot Sauce (we used Frank’s)
- Grass-Fed Butter or Ghee
How to Make Gluten Free Buffalo Chicken Bites
- Heat the oil. We use avocado but feel free to use whatever high heat oil you want.
- Whisk together the batter ingredients.
- Coat the chicken with the batter.
- Fry and then let excess oil drain on paper towels.
- Make buffalo sauce by heating hot sauce and butter (or ghee) together in a skillet. Whisk together until fully combined.
- Toss chicken with buffalo sauce.
- For extra crispy chicken broil for a few minutes.
- Serve immediately with vegetable crudités and your favorite dipping sauce.
Sides to Pair
- Easy Coleslaw
- Macaroni Salad
- Easy Cucumber Salad with Lots of Herbs!
- Sweet Potato Fries
- Spiralized Chipotle Slaw
- Avocado and Corn Salsa
- Cauliflower Rice
- Fresh Veggies (celery, carrots, cucumber) & Ranch (in my cookbook)
Watch the video:
Want other Buffalo Chicken Hits? Try these favorite recipes:
- Buffalo Chicken Burgers
- Buffalo Chicken Tenders (Keto)
- 5-Ingredient Buffalo Chicken Baked Hummus Dip
- Sheet Pan Buffalo Chicken and Veggies
- Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
CRISPY BUFFALO CHICKEN BITES
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup avocado oil or oil of choice
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken diced into bite sized pieces
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup 60 grams tapioca flour
- 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup plus 1 teaspoon hot sauce (we used Frank's), divided
- 2 tablespoons grass-fed butter or ghee
Instructions
- Heat oil in a heavy-bottom medium skillet over medium heat.
- Whisk together eggs, tapioca flour, salt, pepper and 1 teaspoon hot sauce in a medium bowl.
- Place chicken into batter and toss until coated.
- Once oil is hot, carefully place chicken into hot skillet.
- Fry on both sides until golden brown.
- Remove from skillet and place on plate lined with paper towels.
- Meanwhile, make buffalo sauce: heat remaining hot sauce and butter together in a skillet. Whisk together until fully combined.
- Add in chicken and toss until coated.
- For extra crispy chicken: transfer chicken to a lined baking sheet and broil for 2-3 minutes on each side, watching carefully not to burn.
- Serve immediately with vegetable crudités and your favorite dipping sauce.
Notes
- *Splash a drop of water in the skillet, if it sizzles, it's hot and ready to go!
This is the best fried chicken I’ve ever had! I didn’t think I would be wowed on whole30 but I was wrong!
Made this for Tuesday night FOOTBALL! the kids and hubby LOVED it! came together quickly and was super easy!
Hi,
Awesome recipe of crispy buffalo chicken bites. It’s looks delicious!
Ok, so DH said he would cook since I was wiped out. I then conceded we should “do it together.” Here’s what I know: we doubled the recipe. He put the avocado oil into the batter mix, because he didn’t read. He never preheated the pan (I tried to rescue my cast iron skillet by adding oil & turning on the burner seconds before he began putting battered chicken onto a cold skillet.) And when I took the first round of pan fried, drained, sauce-tossed bites out from the broiler, he began taking them off the baking sheet with the same slotted spoon he had been using to transfer the raw battered chicken into the skilllet. At this point, I lost my shit and left the room. Promptly took 2 xanax, and waited for it to kick-in. Then I went back to the kitchen, put all the chicken onto 2 trays and baked for 20 mins on 400° hoping beyond all hope to make it safe enough to eat, because a) all that work and b) all that butcherbox chicken, y’all. Is mine the only house where things like this happen on the one night you just needed to do nothing really bad? Cheers y’all, nobody could screw it up worse than we did, and it tasted amazing. Prayers for my gut health appreciated! P.S. my air fryer sweet potato fries were phenomenal!
Best comment ever. So glad you enjoyed!
Just made these tonight and they were amazing!! I didn’t have tapioca flour and used arrowroot instead and they turned out perfect .
Loved it! Will definitely make this again. Served with potato skins, carrots and celery.
These are delicious! Has anyone ever tried to figure the calorie count? I figured it out on my own, but it seemed higher than I expected for ab 5 oz of chicken. I just wanted to compare with someone else.
Have you tried making a large batch and freezing them?
What’s the texture of the batter supposed to be? After two eggs and the 1/2 c of flour, it was very dry – not batter like at all!
I added water and am now wondering if that was wrong. But batter? It’s like cake batter in my mind. Eek.
Wow! I showed these to hubbs, said don’t these look wonderful? He said they do! Funny I just got some Tapioca flour! This will be on my list of things to make!! Thank you!!
I marinated my chicken overnight in lemon/paprika/thyme and it made it super awesome!
Awesome, awesome,AWESOME! I used arrowroot powder instead of tapioca and I love the results!! Definitely don’t skip the broiler, they come out super crispy!
I made this last night to make some ‘buffalo shrimp!’
I used almond flour instead of tapioca flour and also, didn’t have Frank’s hot sauce so used Cholula instead. Very, very good!!
I love this recipe so much and have no problem using grass-fed butter (it’s the best!) but it is dairy… so maybe a good alternative (for diary-free option) might be using coconut or avocado oil in place of the butter for the sauce portion of the recipe? thoughts?
Where can you find tapioca flour? I have had no such luck
I used almond flour and it came out great! I buy mine from my local health food store 🙂
These are the best things since sliced bread…and who needs the grains when you’ve got these!! They turned out so amazing, crispy and YUMMO. Thank you so much for such a great recipe. I LOVE LOVE LOVE these and can’t say enough good things about this site. Blessings!
So so happy you enjoyed. Thanks for taking the time to write!
Lexi, these are amazing! I love the crispiness you get from the batter. I have never gotten this crispy texture with any other “paleo” flour. And I am obsessed with anything buffalo. 🙂 Thank you for posting!!
Made this tonight, was quite good. Will definitely make them again!