Buffalo chicken dip with velveeta and cream cheese

Smoked Buffalo Chicken Dip recipe – a kicked up version of your favorite dip with TONS of great flavor. Chicken, buffalo sauce, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, ranch dressing, bacon, and a delicious smoky flavor from cooking on the grill. Serve with your favorite chips and veggie slices. This is a great dip for cookouts, camping, parties, and game day.

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The Best Buffalo Chicken Dip on the Grill

Add this Smoked Buffalo Chicken dip to your menu the next time you have a party! OMG! SO good!! Chicken, buffalo sauce, bacon, ranch dressing, and CHEESE. The best part about the recipe is the smoky flavor you from the wood chips on the grill. Most of all, this was a lot of fun to make. It is perfect for cookouts, camping, and watching the big game. Grab a bag of your favorite chips, and a few beers, and start grilling and chillin’.

How to Make Smoked Buffalo Dip on the Grill

This cheese dip is super easy to make with only a few simple ingredients. Place shredded chicken, buffalo wing sauce, Velveeta cheese, cooked bacon, ranch dressing, ranch dressing mix, shredded cheeses, cream cheese, and milk in an aluminum baking dish. Prepare the grill for indirect cooking. Place the disposable pan on the grill grate and cook until the cheese has melted and the dip is warm, stirring periodically.

How to Prepare the Grill for Indirect Cooking

• We use a charcoal grill at our house. Setting up a charcoal grill for smoking is super easy. Light the coals in a charcoal starter. When the coals are ready, place them on one side of the grill. Place some of the wood chips on top of the coals. Place the pan of dip on the side without the coals to cook it with indirect heat.
• This queso is even easier to make on your Big Green Egg or Traeger Grill. Just set the temp to about 350ºF and let the smoker melt the cheese and add a ton of amazing flavor.
• How to Make Smoked Queso Without a Grill – Don’t have a grill? No problem! You can make this dip in the slow cooker, in the microwave, or on the stovetop. I suggest adding ½ teaspoon of liquid smoke to the mixture to give the dip a smoky flavor.

Helpful Tips & Frequently Asked Questions

• I use a rotisserie chicken for the shredded chicken in this dip. You can use any cooked chicken that you have on hand.
  • Chicken breasts, chicken thighs, or chicken tenderloins all work great.
• I use Frank’s Hot Sauce or Frank’s Wing Sauce in this recipe. You can use any buffalo sauce that you enjoy.
• Can substitute turkey bacon or 1 cup of precooked bacon.
• Is Smoked Buffalo Chicken Dip spicy? I use a cup of hot sauce and we thought it gave the dip the perfect amount of flavor. If you are worried about the heat, adjust the amount of hot sauce to your personal preference.
• This recipe uses prepared Ranch dressing and Ranch Dressing mix.
  • Here is our recipe for Homemade Ranch Dressing: https://www.plainchicken.com/copycat-outback-ranch-dressing/
  • Here is our recipe for Homemade Ranch Dressing Mix: https://www.plainchicken.com/homemade-ranch-dressing-mix/
• You can use any shredded cheeses you prefer. I use sharp cheddar cheese and Monterey jack cheese. I’ve also made this with pepper jack cheese – delicious!
• Feel free to toss in some chopped bell peppers, jalapeños, chopped tomatoes, or red onion into the pan.
• If the dip is too thick, add a splash of milk, beer, broth, or water until it reaches the desired consistency.
• You can make the dip in a disposable aluminum baking dish or large cast-iron skillet.
• I use hickory wood chips. Use any flavor you prefer. I bought the wood chips at Home Depot.
  • Soak the chips in water for 30 minutes before starting the grill. One cup of wood chips will last for about 20 minutes. We periodically added some to the grill when we stirred the dip.
• Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Classic Buffalo Chicken Dip is Great for a Crowd

This dip has quickly become a favorite at our get-togethers and on game day. I garnish the hot dip with some green onions and blue cheese crumbles. It is equally delicious with some We usually serve the dip with tortilla chips, celery sticks, carrot sticks, or corn chips.

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Smoked Buffalo Chicken Dip

Author: Plain Chicken

Yield: 8 people

Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 40 mins

Total Time 45 mins

Smoked Buffalo Chicken Dip recipe – a kicked up version of your favorite dip with TONS of great flavor. Chicken, buffalo sauce, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, ranch dressing, bacon, and a delicious smoky flavor from cooking on the grill. Serve with your favorite chips and veggie slices. This is a great dip for cookouts, camping, parties, and game day.

Equipment:

• Charcoal Chimney Starter

• 9×13 Aluminum Pan

• 12-inch Cast Iron Skillet

• Chef Knife

• Cutting Board

Ingredients:

• 8- oz Velveeta cheese cubed
• 1 (8-oz) package cream cheese
• 2 cups cooked chopped chicken
• 1 lb bacon, cooked and chopped
• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 cup Frank’s Buffalo sauce
• ½ cup prepared ranch dressing
• 1½ Tbsp ranch dressing mix
• ¼ cup milk or beer
• 3 cups hickory wood chips soaked for 30 minutes
• green onions and blue cheese crumbles, for garnish

Instructions:

• Place all ingredients except wood chips in a 9×13-inch disposable aluminum pan.

• Prepare grill. Place charcoal in a charcoal starter and light. When the coals start to turn gray, dump into the grill, placing all the coals to one side. Top the hot coals with some of the wood chips. Place the pan with the dip on the side of the grill without coals. Close grill.

• Cook the queso for 30 to 45 minutes, up to several hours, stirring periodically and adding wood chips to the top of the coals every 20 minutes. Add milk or beer to dip as it cooks to reach the desired consistency.

• Garnish the hot dip with chopped green onions and blue cheese crumbles, if desired. Serve the dip with chips and veggie slices.

  How do you keep Velveeta cheese dip creamy?

  HOW TO KEEP YOUR DIP FROM GETTING HARD. As mentioned earlier, evaporated milk will help slow down the pace at which your Velveeta Cheese Dip hardens. However, if you want to keep it from hardening altogether is to serve it out of a crockpot.

  What makes buffalo chicken dip thicker?

  How do you thicken Buffalo Chicken Dip? You can try adding more cream cheese, but the fastest way is to make a slurry of cornstarch and stir it in slowly until the mixture thickens up.

  What cheese goes with buffalo chicken?

  Melty mozzarella is the perfect complement to flavor-packed buffalo chicken. Buffalo chicken dip uses cheddar cheese, but I felt that cheddar would be a little too overpowering in this sandwich. Mozzarella is my go-to cheese for almost everything – it's fairly mild and melts the best out of any other cheese IMO.

  What goes best with buffalo chicken dip?

  WHAT'S GOOD WITH BUFFALO DIP? Such a versatile dip it can pretty much be served with anything! Our favourite snacks include Celery sticks, carrot sticks, red bell pepper sticks (capsicum sticks), sliced cucumber, crusty bread pieces, tortilla chips or potato chips.