Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Nearly Fat Free Buffalo Chicken Dip

My friend Kelley and my mom both make the same recipe for the most incredible buffalo chicken dip. Mmmm....
Alas, it is not low fat. I had a serious craving for it one day and because I was terrified that fat police (and possibly my weight watchers group leader) would magically appear and take my cream cheese away I had to get to substituting.

First, you need some chicken. Kelley's recipe calls for canned chicken. I think that would work in mine too but I haven't tried it. I had been boiling chicken breasts and shredding them but tonight I cheated and pulled apart a rotisserie chicken. This was much more chicken and also got
mushy as it cooked - I like mushy but you might not.

Then I add:
1 can low fat cream of celery
8 oz fat free sour cream
1 packet dry ranch seasoning
1/2 cup buffalo wing sauce (not pictured) - 1/2 cup is the minimum, we are wussies when it comes to the heat

See all the store brands, that's the husbands doing. He is very cheap frugal.

Tonight we mixed it up and added chopped celery right to it. This gave it a nice crunch.
Let it all cook and when it is hot through and through you will have a delicious orange glop.


Chris and I do good to get it on plates and then scoop it with baked tortilla chips and celery (except when we jump the gun and put the celery in it).

If I were going to take this to a party I think I would put it in a small casserole dish, pour a little extra wing sauce on top for a nice orange color and then put a little pile of chopped celery in the middle because I am fancy like that.

You should make this and have me over, or better yet just bring it here. I will put my bathrobe on.

2 comments:

Poshly_Polished said...

does the recipe call for Cream Cheese or Sour cream, because the picture shows sour cream but in the recipe you wrote cream cheese?

Jen Vogel ('Azraa) said...

And you are a champ for finding that. Sour cream. I will fix it now.