# Honey Buffalo Chicken Sandwich

A crispy, flavorful chicken sandwich featuring a honey buffalo sauce, blue cheese or ranch, pickled jalapenos, pepper jack cheese, and crispy onions on a toasted bun.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Sauce & Condiment
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- meaty chicken thighs
- buttermilk
- hot sauce
- salt
- pepper
- garlic powder
- paprika
- cayenne pepper
- white onion
- 70 % flour
- 30 % potato starch
- a tiny bit baking powder
- butter
- a bunch hot honey
- buns
- blue cheese or ranch
- homemade pickled jalapenos
- thin slice of jalapeno pepper jack cheese
- crispy onions

## Instructions

1. Clean up some of the fat from meaty chicken thighs.
2. Slightly butterfly the thicker part of the chicken thighs to ensure even cooking.
3. Immerse the chicken thighs in buttermilk.
4. Splash in hot sauce as much as desired.
5. Season the chicken thighs with salt, pepper, garlic powder, paprika, and cayenne pepper.
6. Mix and marinade the chicken thighs until you lose patience.
7. Chop off the top and bottom of a white onion.
8. Give the onion a quick dash across the skin and then peel it while it's still whole.
9. Turn the onion to its side and make thin slices, turning them into rings.
10. Toss the onion rings in a deep container.
11. Add a little more buttermilk to the onion rings.
12. Introduce a little hot sauce to the onion rings and let them vibe out for a second.
13. In another bowl, combine 70% flour and 30% potato starch.
14. Add a tiny bit of baking powder to the flour mixture.
15. Season the dry batter with salt, pepper, garlic powder, paprika, and cayenne pepper.
16. Dip the buttermilk chicken thigh into the dry batter and let it sit for a couple of minutes.
17. Set the oil temperature around 360 degrees Fahrenheit for single frying.
18. Fry the chicken thighs for only 5 to 8 minutes.
19. To make the sauce, start by melting down a little butter.
20. Introduce your favorite hot sauce to the melted butter.
21. Kill the heat and add in a bunch of hot honey to the sauce.
22. Toss the onion rings into the same dry batter, ensuring they are properly coated.
23. Fry the onion rings.
24. Submerge the fried chicken patty into the sauce.
25. On a toasted bun, add some blue cheese or ranch.
26. Add some homemade pickled jalapenos to the bun.
27. Place the fried chicken patty on the bun.
28. Add a thin slice of jalapeno pepper jack cheese.
29. Slightly toast the sandwich.
30. Crown the sandwich with some crispy onions.

## Equipment

- deep container
- bowl
- fryer

## Tips

- slightly butterfly thicker parts of chicken thighs for even cooking
- marinade chicken thighs until you lose patience
- slice onions thinly into rings
- ensure onion rings are properly coated in dry batter

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1VR7BKLTEC/?igsh=OG41cGVkYzN2c3lu
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/92edc645-d5fd-46c7-a46d-a241de5f99b4
- Extracted: 2026-02-21

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