Spice up your pizza night with this Buffalo Chicken Pizza that has buffalo sauced chicken, Monterey Jack cheese and blue cheese.
We make pizza almost weekly at our house, so you know we love it! After you’ve tried this Buffalo Chicken Pizza, check out this White Pizza Recipe, this Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizza, and this BBQ Chicken Pizza.
This pizza….oh this pizza. I am always drawn toward anything buffalo chicken, so when you throw buffalo chicken on top of pizza I’m all over it. Plus, this one is totally perfect for a weeknight. The thing that takes the longest is preheating the oven!
This was everything I expected it to be. A little bit spicy from the hot sauce, but a little bit cool from the blue cheese. I realize that a lot of people don’t like blue cheese, so if you are one of those, I would just add on some extra Monterey Jack cheese. Easy, fast, and packed with flavor – what else could you ask for??
What is Buffalo Chicken?
Buffalo chicken first became popular in the form of chicken wings that are deep fried and then drenched in buffalo sauce – which is a mixture of pepper sauce and butter. The sauce is usually spicy, sometimes much spicier than others, so the chicken is often served with blue cheese dressing (or ranch dressing) to cool it down. That spicy and cool combination is a real winner for me!
You can easily find wing sauce at grocery stores these days. The most popular is Frank’s Red Hot Sauce. If you like it really spicy, feel free to pick up a spicy version. I usually try to keep it more mild so it won’t scare the kids away. 🙂
Ingredients
This is just a basic guideline, so feel free to mix things up as you’d like!
- I start with my homemade pizza dough. It really is the best dough recipe out there!
- Next up is the sauce – I just use a basic pizza sauce. If you like things really spicy, you can use wing sauce here. Or if you want to really cool things down, you could do a thin layer of ranch dressing.
- After the sauce, you’ll add your buffalo chicken. I make the sauce by combining buffalo wing sauce, butter, and Worcestershire sauce. Then I use shredded chicken (which is one of my favorite time saving tips). You can also pick up a rotisserie chicken.
- Cheese is next – I use a combination of Monterey Jack and blue cheese crumbles. You could use mozzarella cheese, or leave the blue cheese off if you aren’t a fan.
- Last but not least are the green onions, which you’ll add once the pizza has been baked.
Tips and Tricks
I don’t usually par-bake my crust, but if you like the pizza crust to be a little more crispy, bake it for 5 minutes, then remove it and add the toppings.
Love blue cheese but no one else does? Serve the pizza with blue cheese dressing for dipping!
I find that the easiest way to store this pizza is wrapped in foil in the refrigerator. I like to reheat it in the air fryer or on the stove top. It gets pretty soggy in the microwave.
More Buffalo Chicken Recipes
Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches
Twice Baked Buffalo Chicken Sweet Potatoes
Baked Buffalo Chicken Taquitos
Buffalo Chicken Pizza Rolls
Buffalo Chicken Tacos
Buffalo Chicken Pizza
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 3 to 4 tablespoons wing sauce
- 2 1/2 cups cooked shredded chicken
- salt and pepper
- 1 pound pizza dough
- ½ cup pizza sauce
- 1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- ½ cup blue cheese crumbles
- 1-2 green onions thinly sliced
Instructions
- Place a pizza stone in the oven and preheat to 425ºF for 30 minutes.
- In a medium saucepan, melt the butter. Add the Worcestershire sauce and the wing sauce, then add the chicken and stir to coat. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
- On a piece of parchment paper, roll the pizza dough out. Spread the pizza sauce evenly over the dough to 1-inch of the edges. Spread the chicken evenly over the sauce, followed by the Monterey Jack cheese then the blue cheese crumbles.
- Bake in the oven until the cheese is melted and bubbly, about 10-15 minutes. Sprinkle the green onions over the pizza before serving.
jenny says
We have a Friday Night Pizza Night tradition at our house and Buffalo Chicken Pizza makes the menu about once a month. If I know I will be in a time crunch, I usually plan chicken for earlier in the week and just cook up some extra. I toss the chicken in my buffalo sauce (franks and butter), spread some ranch dressing on the pizza crust, top with sauced chicken and mozzerella (I am the only one who likes the blue- so we stick with mozzie). If I have them, I will sometimes add some green onions or red peppers… The ranch dressing makes it- YUM!
Hopie says
I clicked on your link from your comment on Dine and Dish because I, too, am a sucker for anything with buffalo sauce. So good. I probably can’t get buffalo sauce where I live. I think I’m going to have to learn how to make it! And when I do, this recipe’s going at the top of my list of things to do with it.
Jill @ Healthy Kiddo Snacks says
Wow- what a great looking pizza! I can’t wait to try it out. Thanks for the tasty dinner idea!
Cookin' Canuck says
We have a tradition of making pizza every Friday night and I am always looking for new ideas. This one is definitely next on the list.
Erika - The Teenage Taste says
Give me buffalo chicken anything and I’ll be a very happy girl. Frank’s Red Hot makes the best buffalo sauce!
camie says
This looks incredible. I love anything hot and spicy and if it has cheese too it’s even better!