Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
These Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes are the perfect sweet and spicy fall comfort food. This dish is SO filling and the sweetness of the potatoes is perfectly matched with the spicy buffalo chicken and cool, creamy blue cheese coleslaw. I love how simple these are to put together (just 6 ingredients!) and they make great leftovers for lunch the next day. I’m always looking for more ways to incorporate more Buffalo chicken into my diet, so these stuffed potatoes are right up my alley. At just 288 calories or 5 WW Points each, this hearty, filling meal will be one you want to make again and again. To view your current WW Points for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site, click here!
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Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
- 6 6 ounce each raw sweet potatoes, (total of 36 ounces)
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 lb raw boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 cup Buffalo Wing sauce, I used Frank’s Red Hot brand
- 1 ½ cups dry coleslaw cabbage mix
- 4 tablespoons light blue cheese dressing, such as Marzetti light
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and place it on the lower rack of your oven (to catch any leaks from the potatoes while baking). Stab each sweet potato with a fork 2-3 times to make some holes. Place the potatoes directly onto the oven rack in the center of the oven (the rack with the baking sheet should be underneath). Set the oven to 400 and allow to come to temperature with the potatoes in the oven. Once the oven is heated to 400, continue to bake the potatoes for an hour.
- About 20-30 minutes before the potatoes are done, bring the oil to medium-high heat in a saute pan. Add the chicken breasts in a single layer and cook for 3 minutes on one side, flip them over and continue to cook 3 more minutes on the other side. Add the buffalo sauce to the pan and wait until it bubbles (should happen almost immediately). Lower the heat to medium-low and cover the pan. Simmer for 15-20 minutes (depending on the thickness of your chicken breasts) until the chicken is fully cooked through.
- Remove the lid from the pan and transfer each chicken breast to a cutting board to shred with two forks. Return each shredded breast to the sauce and stir to combine. Continue to cook on low for another 3-5 minutes until the sauce thickens and soaks into the shredded chicken.
- In a mixing bowl, combine the coleslaw mix and blue cheese dressing until well coated.
- When the sweet potatoes are done, remove from the oven. To serve, slice open a sweet potato and fill with about ½ cup of shredded buffalo chicken. Top with ¼ cup of blue cheese coleslaw and serve.
Notes
7 per stuffed potato (PP calculated using a Weight Watchers PointsPlus calculator and the nutrition info below)
I despise sweet potatoes – always have, but I’ve been searching for a way to make them that I might actually like, since I know they’re incredibly good for you. I think you may have just made my day. I love buffalo chicken and would never have thought to combine these two things. I will be trying this soon.
Haha, well I hope this can change your mind!
Looks delicious! To make this a quick weeknight dinner, you could make the buffalo chicken in the crockpot over the weekend, and the day of bake the potatoes all day in the crockpot. Get home from work and assemble! Can’t wait to try it!
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Hi!! We aren’t a fan of blue cheese, think it would work with ranch?? Thank you!
Definitely!
Looks delish and is on the menu for next week! Maybe a tip (maybe not); I use a broiler pan for the potatoes. Line the bottom with foil as you would a baking sheet for easy clean-up. I figured I’d rather clean the top of the broiler pan of sweet potato sticky rather than my oven rack. I tried it with your Chili Cheese Stuffed Sweet Potato recipe and the potatoes were fantastic.
I really enjoyed this! Definitely a keeper!!!
These were so yummy! Would have never thought of the combination but it was delicious! Your blog is the best!
I was worried all week about making this but I had already bought all the ingredients. Sweet potatoe with Buffalo chicken?? I gave it a shot and loved it. I didn’t like the blue cheese I picked out sadly but made it again another night with just the sweet potatoe and chicken and it’s become a go to for quick easy meals.
I shred chicken at the beginning of the week and leave it in a bowl so I can just grab some for taco night or this. So all I have to do is heat up some potatoes and mix in some sauce with chicken and bam, dinner. 10/10 recommend even if you are apprehensive. The sweet and spicy go hand in hand.
Another great recipe, thank you, Emily!
Loved this recipe! It’s definitely a spicy one, so if spicy makes you nervous… could be worth looking for a non-fat ranch to make your slaw if that gets you a little more volume for the points. But the blue cheese is so good! I added a little more slaw mix to the blue cheese since I had the bag and the points are 0–yum. We will definitely make this again, but I’m going to try switching to a slow cooker for time management (the recipe as-is isn’t hard/too time consuming, but the slower cooker is just so easy) and to avoid oil splatter cleanup.
Where has this recipe been all my life? It is delicious! I made the chicken in the crockpot instead of stovetop, and added a packet of ranch dressing in with the hot sauce. My husband and I both went back for seconds, and it’s awesome leftover. It’s definitely going into our regular recipe rotation.
Hello, this recipe sounds delicious! My husband is not on WW so I try and find things we both would like so I don’t end up having to cook two meals. I figure I can use a regular potatoe for him since he is not a fan of sweet potatoes but he loves Buffalo chicken – he is from Buffalo! Quick question, to save time could you use a store bought roasted chicken, shredd the breasts and then add the wing sauce and continue the recipe from there?
Hello, this recipe sounds delicious! My husband is not on WW so I try and find things we both would like so I don’t end up having to cook two meals. I figure I can use a regular potatoe for him since he is not a fan of sweet potatoes but he loves Buffalo chicken – he is from Buffalo! Quick question, to save time could you use a store bought roasted chicken, shred the breasts and then add the wing sauce and continue the recipe from there?
Sure, that should be fine! I hope you enjoy!