Looking for a warm and hearty soup? This slow cooker buffalo chicken soup is budget friendly and freezer friendly for a delicious and easy dinner.
Fall is officially here, which brings two very important things—cooler temperatures and FOOTBALL! Of course, it also means busier days, with more activities and obligations and less time to spend in the kitchen. Luckily for all of us, today’s easy slow cooker buffalo chicken soup is pretty much the ideal fall recipe—hearty, delicious and so ridiculously easy, it can barely even be considered cooking.
In other words? It’s practically perfect in every way.
With just a few budget-friendly, easy ingredients, it comes together in minutes, then freezes beautifully until you’re ready to throw it in the crockpot, no pre-cooking, pre-soaking or thawing required. Seriously, it couldn’t be any easier!
Of course, the easiest recipe in the world doesn’t help much if your family won’t eat it, but luckily this one is almost guaranteed to be a hit! My husband and oldest daughter both declared it the best soup they’ve ever had. (My youngest daughter thought it was a tad bit spicy, but still really liked it, especially with more blue cheese.) By the way, if your family doesn’t do spicy food, you can always use mild buffalo sauce to cut down on the heat!
Also, be sure to use the Ham-Beens brand beans if you can, as they include a flavor packet that helps season the soup. They can be found at most major grocery stores!
Step 1: Open Ham-Beens package and set aside flavor packet. Rinse beans. Check for any unwanted debris.
Step 2: Chop onion, carrot and celery.
Step 3: In large bowl, combine beans, carrots, celery, onion, Ham-Beens flavor packet and broth or water. Stir until packet contents are dissolved.
Step 4: Divide chicken into two gallon-size freezer bags (be sure to label bags first!). Divide soup mixture into bags over top of chicken. Freeze until needed.
Step 6: Pour in ½ cup buffalo sauce (or more to taste); stir to combine. Serve with blue cheese crumbles.
Divide chicken into two gallon-size freezer bags (be sure to label bags first!). Divide soup mixture into bags over top of chicken. Freeze until needed.
Pour in ½ cup buffalo sauce (or more to taste); stir to combine. Serve with blue cheese crumbles.
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Sounds delicious!!! Love buffalo sauce! Just found out my son is allergic to kidney beans and soy beans. I'm thinking a white bean might be delish here, too.
This looks delicious and pretty easy too. I know several people in my family who would enjoy this.
It would be perfect to take to a party as well in a to-go crock pot and most of the ingredients I usually have on hand.
Thank you for this post!
I want to clarify. For the freezing part, are you putting raw chicken (whole pieces) in the freezer bags with the veggies on top?
Thank you.
I am a total newbie to freezer cooking, and was wondering the same thing about the chicken. Does it go in the freezer bag already cooked, or raw?
It sounds delicious, and I would like to make this my first freezer meal!
Thank you.
You can put the chicken in raw or pre-cooked. I usually use chicken from a deli rotisserie, they work great for recipes like this!
Yes, food safety question, is that chicken raw when it's sitting atop the beans in the freezer bags or is it cooked but not yet shredded?
What is in buffalo sauce? I guess I have never paid attention to it at the store.
Adding this to our meal plan! I love buffalo chicken everything but I've never had it as soup.