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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!
I made this tonight. Absolutely delicious! This recipe is a keeper for sure! Thank you!
Excited to make these!
I thought I had tapioca flour, but looks like all I have are: arrowroot powder, brown rice flour, garbanzo flour, buckwheat flour, whole wheat flour, coconut flour. Which one would be the best substitute??
Thanks!
Christina
Probably arrowroot but I can’t promise exact results since I haven’t tried it myself.
These were soooo yummy! My husband said that they were the best chicken “nuggets” he had ever eaten. I left the sauce off the kids and they loved them too! I have been loving all of your recipes. Glad to have found your site!
Hi Lexi, wondering if I can use sea salt instead of pink salt? I don’t know what pink salt is so I wanted to ask before I substituted – I don’t want to change a fundamental part of the recipe! Thanks!
Made these last night and they were awesome! The batter added great texture. I made some without the sauce for my son too and he thought they were just like chicken nuggets. Thanks for the recipe Lex!
I was looking to make these and I wanted to know if you tried them with coconut flour!
Yum!!!!! I wonder if coconut flour would work to make it low carb?…
I love buffalo chicken anything! Especially when its not bad for you!
I will be eating these in a buffalo chicken salad with tons of homemade ranch! Thank you!
Is there a homemade ranch recipe on this blog? 🙂
Looks so simple, and I *love* buffalo stuff. And fried stuff.
Wow. 🙂
Nothing beats crispy chicken! These look SO delicious and moorish – the perfect savoury nibbles.
These look amazing! I can’t get over how crispy and delicious looking they are!!
Can I use arrowroot instead?
HOLY YUM!!! My mouth is seriously watering over the idea of turning this chicken into pizza… GAH. I seriously need these in my life.
When I saw these on Instagram this am, I knew I had to come over and take a closer look. Seriously, Lexi – these look amazing!
Could I use ghee in place of grass-fed butter?
Looks amazing!!! Fried oysters are my all-time favorite!!
OMG, these sound amazing!! I was just in the midst of creating my meal plan for next week and was having a little recipe block on what to make for one of the dinners. Lo and behold your email came through with this recipe, and these chicken bites went right on the list! 🙂
I needsta get me some of this tapioca! These babies look ULTRA CRISPY. And buffalo chicken anything basically compl-EATS my life. Pinned!
This is everything I want and more for a Friday night dinner in!
Love this new paleo idea! Definitely going to make this soon. My hubby would love the buffalo flavor!