If you don't already know...I love spicy dishes! 🙂 And this one has one of the best foods possible, POTATOES!! Yes you can still eat potatoes on weight watchers, just in moderation. This dish was easy to make, but does require some time, however it is worth devoting the time too. You will think heaven just exploded in your mouth! 😉 Serves 6 at 6 WW freestyle smart points per serving.
Buffalo chicken potato bake
2-8PP, 6SP blue, 8SP green, 2SP purple
Ingredients
- 5-6 medium potatoes peeled and cut in 1inch pieces
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast about 22-24oz cut and cubed
- 1 T olive oil
- 1 t black pepper
- 2 t paprika
- 2 garlic cloves diced
- â…“ cup franks hot sauce
- 2 T water
- 1 cup light shredded cheese I used a mozza/cheddar blend
- 3 T bacon crumble
- green onion
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F
- Peel your potatoes and cut into 1 inch cubes. In a bowl mix your oil, spices, water, diced garlic and franks sauce. Add potatoes to bowl and mix well..
- Using a draining spoon, carefully spoon your potatoes into a sprayed 9x13 dish, you want to save as much of the remaining mixture for your chicken.
- Bake the potatoes for 60 minutes, turning every 10 minutes. While potatoes are cooking mix your cubed chicken into the rest of the mixture and coat well.
- When potatoes are done lower oven to 350F. Top potatoes with your uncooked chicken, add cheese, bacon and green onion.
- Return to oven and bake for 20 minutes or until chicken is fully cooked. Drizzle with some ranch dressing or garlic sauce. Makes 6 servings (â…™th of the dish)
Notes
Personal Points- 2-8 depending on your 0PP foodsÂ
SP Freestyle- (blue) 6 using WW recipe builder
Smart points- (green) 8 using WW recipe builder
Smart points- (purple) 2 using WW recipe builder
Points plus- 9 using PP calculator
Nutritional info per serving.. Calories 358...Fat 9.3g...Saturated fat 0.7g...Carbs 37.6g...Fiber 5.1g... Sugars 1.8g... Protein 33.4g using My Fitness Pal
Smart points- (green) 8 using WW recipe builder
Smart points- (purple) 2 using WW recipe builder
Points plus- 9 using PP calculator
Nutritional info per serving.. Calories 358...Fat 9.3g...Saturated fat 0.7g...Carbs 37.6g...Fiber 5.1g... Sugars 1.8g... Protein 33.4g using My Fitness Pal
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Kelly
Have you made this with sweet potatoes? That's all I have on hand & I'm thinking about making this for dinner tonight 🙂
Drizzle
Hi, no I haven't I am not a fan of sweet potato, but if you like them it should be ok 🙂 Enjoy!
Kathy
Your recipe states to bake the potatoes at 350, but then later says to turn the oven down to 350 when baking the chicken? Are the potatoes supposed to be cooked at 375? maybe?
Drizzle
Thank you Kathy for pointing that out, and you are absolutely correct 🙂 I have edited the recipe..
Marian
More potatoes! I'd love if the bubble ups were like this!
Drizzle
Well they could be put the points would be high... potato's and biscuits... equals lots of points lol
Janelle
I made this recipe for dinner tonight and subbed diced rutabega for potato. brought the smartpoints down to 3 per serving with fat free cheese.
Drizzle
Wow that's great, I have never had rutabega, what does it taste like? That is a nice low point meal for sure!
Sarah
So delicious!!!!! My whole family loved it!!!!!!!! Thank you for your recipes. They have helped me so much on my WW journey and I have told so many people about your site. Everyone loves it!!! Keep em coming!
Drizzle
Thanks Sarah, so glad everyone enjoyed the dish 🙂
Dolores
Can cauliflower be substituted for potatoes? Or half cauliflower/half potato?
Drizzle
All I can say is give it a try, cauliflower may make it more watery though
TA
Have you tried uncooked bacon slices when adding the chicken?
Drizzle
No, I'm not sure if the bacon will cook through that way, you can try but I'd prefer to add it in cooked
Shannon
Great recipes! Just wondering what can be substituted for hot sauce that might be more mild?
Drizzle
Hi Shannon, the good thing with hot sauce is there are usually no points in it, regular BBQ sauce will have points, you can try and find the sugar free bbq sauce, or use a little regular and water it down so its thin like franks
Heather
Thank you so much, it was delicious. Your recipes have helped me significantly on this journey.
Drizzle
Happy to hear that! 🙂
Alisha Call
This sounds wonderful?! I am all about the spicy buffalo! What kind of ranch or buffalo sauce do you use?
Drizzle
I use Franks original, and at the time a low calorie ranch but now I have a zero point ranch dressing if you look in my "appetizer" section
Stacey
This is so delicious! I was nervous my kids wouldn't like it or it would be too spicy for them but they both really liked it! Thank you!
Drizzle
That is so good to hear, glad everyone enjoyed it 🙂
Karen Zeller
Thank-you!!!! This sooooo yummy!! I was paranoid about all the water/juice from the chicken making the potatoes soggy. I baked the potatoes for 30 minutes and the added a separate pan to the oven with the chicken for 20 minutes and then put it all together with bacon and cheese and baked the final 10 minutes.
Drizzle
Hi Karen, yay so glad you enjoyed it.. One of my favorite dishes for sure, and my daughter goes nuts for this one 😉