Buffalo Salad

Recipe posted by Viv on LCT Forum
Recipe for Wing Sauce by Amy on LCT Forum

Serves 4

This is my version of a salad we had in Utica, NY while on vacation last year. It tastes just like the meal we had in a restaurant there. It was snowing ourside and the chicken on this salad (which is spicy like Buffalo Wings)….hit the spot!

This is Amy’s wing sauce she graciously gave me on the forum!

Ingredients:

4 chicken breasts, cubed into bite-sized pieces

Iceberg lettuce

Red onion, chopped

Pitted black olives, drained

Mozzarella cheese

Boiled eggs

Mexican Cheese Blend (Monterrey Jack and Cheddar)

Sauce:

¼ cup butter (1/2 stick)

½ cup Crystal Hot Sauce

1 tsp garlic powder

½ tsp cayenne pepper (ground)

1 tsp Tabasco

½ tsp ground black pepper

Marie’s Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing

Directions: Fry the chicken chunks in oil and drain on paper towels. Mix ingredients for sauce in saucepan and simmer until reduced by about 25%. (It will thicken.) When sauce is thickened, dip chicken pieces into sauce. Spoon remainder of sauce over chicken pieces on plate (will thicken up as butter cools and adhere to chicken).

Make salads (4) layering lettuce, onions, cheese, olives and sliced boiled eggs. Either top salads with chicken chunks and add dressing at table, or serve chicken chunks on a platter and just let everyone “spear a chunk” every now and then. I top the salads with freshly ground pepper. This is a wonderful combination with the hot-spicy chicken and the coolness of the salad.