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Slow cooker buffalo chicken

Name: Slow cooker buffalo chicken
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 4 h
Total time: 4 h 15 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 200ml hot sauce; 1 tsp garlic granules; 1 tsp onion granules; 1 kg boneless, skinless chicken thighs; 2 bay leaves; 25g butter; burger buns salad and/or slaw, to serve

This slow-cooked, pulled chicken is a lovely blend of sweet and spicy – or ‘swicy’, if you’re following the 2026 trend! It works in a wrap or salad, too

4 hr 15 min total 15 min prep 4 hr cook 4 202 cal

Ingredients

4 serv.

200ml hot sauce
1 tsp garlic granules
1 tsp onion granules
1 kg boneless, skinless chicken thighs
2 bay leaves
25g butter
burger buns salad and/or slaw, to serve

Instructions

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1 Pour the hot sauce into the slow cooker, then mix in the garlic and onion granules. Nestle the chicken thighs in the sauce, then tuck in the bay leaves and dot over the butter.
2 Turn the slow cooker to high and cook for 3-4 hrs until the chicken is tender and cooked through. Remove the thighs to a chopping board and shred the meat using two forks. Return to the sauce and mix well. Remove the bay leaves, then pile the chicken and sauce into burger buns, along with salad and crunchy slaw, if you like.