| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 45 min |
| Active: | 45 min |
| Yield: | One 36-inch sandwich |
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs
- Salt and ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon dark brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- 1 cup your favorite wing sauce, such as Frank’s RedHot
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, optional
- 2 medium carrots, diced
- 2 celery ribs, diced
- 2 tomatoes, seeded and diced
- One 36-inch fresh French loaf
- 1 cup blue cheese crumbles
- Homemade Ranch Dressing, recipe follows
- 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon granulated garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh dill, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon honey or agave syrup
- 1/3 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
- Heat a 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Add the vegetable oil. Sprinkle both sides of the chicken with some salt and pepper, the brown sugar, paprika and cayenne. Sear both sides of the chicken in the skillet until golden, about 4 minutes. Add in the wing sauce, bring to a simmer and finish off in the oven until the chicken registers 165 degrees F on an instant-read thermometer, about 15 minutes. Let cool, and then pull the meat with your hands or two forks. Adjust the seasoning if necessary, add the butter if using, and place back in the oven at BROIL until crusty and caramelized on top, about 4 minutes.
- In a bowl, the combine carrots, celery and tomatoes, and season with salt and pepper. Mix until combined.
- Cut the French loaf horizontally. Place an even layer of blue cheese crumbles on the bottom, then the chicken and then the veggies. Serve with a side of Homemade Ranch Dressing.
- Mix the mayonnaise, buttermilk, garlic, dill, honey, salt, mustard and pepper in a bowl. Store in an airtight container.
Reviews
We ex-nayed on the blue cheese but it was still bomb. Have been making this every football season for over 10 years. The ranch is the best!!!
Great flavors. I substituted seitan for chicken and used pre-made daiya ranch.
I. Love. This. Recipe. I’ve been making this for several years after seeing Jeff Mauro on The Best Thing I Ever Ate. Wednesday night dinner, family gatherings and work pot luck, always a hit! Make it , you’ll love it.
This recipe is absolutely amazing! For the ranch I made the dressing from the show The Kitchen. This is a very easy recipe with barely any mess to clean up and I enjoyed it immensely saving leftover chicken to make myself a buffalo chicken salad the next day for lunch. Y’all got to try this one!
This chicken is a family favorite! I have to admit we don’t make the sub; rather, we eat the chicken straight up. I also substitute chicken breasts. It’s excellent on pizza; along with mozzarella (or farmer’s) cheese, blue cheese crumbles. Garnish with chives (or green onions) and celery leaves.
Awesome sandwich my family loves it!
This recipe has become a staple in our house. Anytime I crave buffalo chicken we make this.
I’ve been using the ranch dressing as a basic in my repertoire and just served the ‘subs’ last evening for a company party. I used the Costco, skinless, boneless thighs (2 lbs.) and for the last part of the recipe, I left them loosely covered in the oven, low and slow (2 hrs.) The chicken was tender and moist. I recommend asking your guests whether they like blue cheese, as some of mine did not.
WOWOWOWOWOW is all I can say 🙂
My 22 y/o son made this with my assistance, and we made double the recipe of chicken, otherwise made everything the same and put it together the same. (PLEASE don’t leave out the Blue Cheese crumbles…. )
I FOOLISHLY “only” bought TWO 36 inch French Breads, which WASN’T ENOUGH, OMG that’s how delicious this was…..
This was dinner for my husband, 2 grown sons and myself, and the guys were looking in the fridge for extra bread after they ate their sub sandwiches…..they wanted MORE!!!!
and just like many of the other reviewers……. THE RANCH DRESSING !!!!!!!!!!
Made exactly as written, AMAZING….. my son got lots of praise for that one, so THANKS JEFF !!!!!!! I like that when my son cooks with me, he gets lots of positive reinforcement 🙂
Excellent. Loved this!