Smoked Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe • Smoked Meat Sunday (2024)

I love this smoked buffalo chicken dip recipe. It has the perfect amount of flavor, and if you make this for your friends or family, they'll beg you to make more.

This smoked buffalo chicken dip recipe is one of my favorite appetizers. It's easy to make and perfect for a family get-together or a party for the big game.

I prefer to make this smoked buffalo chicken dip in a cast-iron skillet. You can use bread, chips, carrots, celery, or whatever you like to dip in it.

What You Need to Make This Smoked Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe

This is what you need to make this dip (full amounts in the recipe card at the bottom of this post):

• Shredded Chicken - I like to smoke and shred chicken quarters first. If you're short on time, you can buy a whole rotisserie chicken at the store and shred that instead.
• Cream Cheese
• Cheddar Cheese
• Mozzarella Cheese
• Crumbled Bacon
• Mayonnaise
• BBQ Rub
• Frank's Red Hot
• Green Onions (if desired)
• Bread, veggies, or chips for dipping

How to Make Smoked Buffalo Chicken Dip

One of the reasons I like making this dip is because it's very easy to make. Once you have all of your ingredients, it just takes a few minutes to prepare and throw on the smoker.

In a large mixing bowl, combine all of the ingredients. I like to combine the wet ingredients and the BBQ rub first, then add drier ingredients like shredded chicken and cheese. Mix the ingredients with your mixer, by hand, or with a spoon until well combined.

Once the mixture is combined, pour it into the cast iron skillet or dish you will use.

Transfer the skillet out to your pre-heated smoker.

Smoking Buffalo Chicken Dip

Set up your smoker to smoke at 225 degrees. I like a stronger wood flavor for this recipe, like mesquite. I use a Traeger and have also found good success using Oak pellets for this recipe.

Place the skillet on the grill grates, close the lid, and let it smoke for about 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, give everything a stir and turn up the temperature in the smoker to either 375 or 400 degrees F.

Add some crumbled blue cheese and more bacon pieces if you would like at this point. Then close the lid and cook for 10-15 minutes until hot throughout.

Top with some chopped green onions if desired, and serve hot. I like to eat this smoked buffalo chicken dip recipe with carrots and celery, but it's great with other veggies, too, and of course, it's fantastic with bread.

Make it a Bread Bowl!

I have made this before by serving it in a bread bowl.

If your loaf of bread has already been picked out, great! If not, pick out chunks of bread from the center of the loaf of bread until a nice bowl has been formed. Be sure to keep the bowl's walls at least 1" thick. I like to try to keep the chunks that I'm tearing out a little bit larger than a golf ball.

Set the pieces of bread in a bag to save for when the bowl is done cooking.