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Braised Buffalo thighs with blue cheese crumbles on top.
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Braised Buffalo Chicken Thighs

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American

Ingredients
  

  • Half a whole chicken or bone in 4 thighs
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 tablespoon Red pepper flakes
  • 1 tablespoon Dill
  • 8 tablespoon Butter
  • ½ cup Franks red hot sauces
  • ½ cup Vinegar
  • 3 Garlic cloves
  • 1 c broth

Equipment

  • dutch oven
  • Knife

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven 375
  2. Coat chicken with salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, dill
  3. Brown chicken with a bit of oil on medium high until skin releases in a cast iron
  4. Once brown transfer to another plate while we heat the sauce.
  5. Whisk together half cup of franks red hot sauces
  6. ½c vinegar
  7. 1 cup of chicken broth
  8. Whole Garlic cloves
  9. Add chicken
  10. Put in oven uncovered for about 40 minutes.
  11. Pull chicken out of dutch oven
  12. bring dutch oven to stove top and reduce sauce until thick.
  13. Remove dutch oven from heat and let cool for a minute.
  14. Add one of cold tablespoon of butter at a time while whisking to emulsify.
  15. Serve chicken smothered in sauce and blue cheese crumbles.