This Chicken Wing Sauce is the best wing sauce ever. This great recipe calls for less than 10 ingredients and it’s super easy to make the sauce to fit your taste.
If you want even more delicious sauce options, try my boom boom sauce recipe or my parmesan and garlic sauce. Perfect for wings, shrimp or whatever you like.
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Why this Chicken Wing Sauce Recipe is a Keeper
I love this recipe because it’s an easy, one pan sauce that’s amazingly delicious. You will definitely want to add this one to your stash of easy recipes for game day. It is great to make buffalo wings with.
- Delicious Flavor: Wings tossed with Buffalo sauce taste amazing and are a hit every time. It’s the best!
- Consistent Results: This recipe turns out well every time you make Buffalo chicken sauce. This recipe makes a wonderful sauce. The wing sauce is rich and full of flavor.
- Freezes Well: Sticky chicken wing sauce is great for making ahead and freezing for later.
- Can Feed a Crowd: Easily scale up to feed a large group, which makes it perfect for parties and gatherings. Even make vegan buffalo wings.
What Else Can I Use this Homemade Buffalo Sauce For?
I love using wing sauce instead of regular hot sauce. Try this wing sauce on pizza, Cornflake Chicken, sandwiches, or with carrots and celery.
Ingredient Notes for Buffalo Wing Sauce
To make this buffalo chicken wing sauce recipe, you will need just a few easy ingredients. If you don’t already have these ingredients in your kitchen, they can all easily be found at the store.
- Hot Sauce: Use your favorite hot sauce, however Frank’s Hot Sauce is great for this recipe.
- Sauce: You will need two cans of tomato sauce to make this Buffalo wing sauce recipe for spicy wings.
- Tabasco: Use as much or as little hot sause as you like in your homemade Buffalo sauce.
See the recipe card below for a complete list of the ingredients with measurements.
Prep Ahead Suggestions for Buffalo Chicken Wing Sauce
Preparing a recipe ahead of time can be the best way to go! Make this Buffalo sauce recipe in advance to be able to enjoy it whenever you’d like.
- Make Ahead: This sweet and spicy sauce takes about 40 minutes to make but can be reheated in minutes. Hot sauce is generally a mixture of chili sauce, cayenne pepper, hot sauce and butter.
Pro Tip for Tangy Buffalo Sauce at Home
The low and slow cooking process should thicken up your sauce, however, you can add equal parts of water and cornstarch to the sauce to thicken it up.
How to Make Buffalo Sauce Recipe
This easy homemade chicken wing sauce recipe comes together in 1 quick and easy step. This hot wing sauce is so good, it will quickly become one of your favorite recipes!
These are the basic steps for making Homemade Chicken Wing Sauce. Refer to the full, printable recipe card below for detailed instructions.
1. Combine Sauce Ingredients and Simmer
In a large pot combine Frank’s red hot sauce, tomato sauce, tomato soup, butter, vinegar, cayenne pepper, tabasco and brown sugar. Simmer for 30-40 minutes.
How to Store, Reheat and Use Leftovers this Hot Sauce Dip
- Storing: Store homemade Buffalo wing sauce in an airtight container or glass jar in the fridge. Homemade version wing sauce will harden in the refrigerator.
- Reheating the Sauce: Heat to prevent the sauce from breaking up. Easily reheat medium wing sauce in a pan on the stove.
- Using Leftovers: Enjoy leftover sauce with crispy air fryer chicken wings or Baked Chicken Wings with Blue Cheese Dip.
Variations and Substitutions for the Best Chicken Wing Sauce for Crispy Wings
This dipping sauce for chicken wings is so versatile! Try taking it to the next level by experimenting with flavors, or trying this with different ingredients.
- Creamy Buffalo: Stir in a spoonful of sour cream or Greek yogurt for a richer, creamier homemade wing sauce.
- Sriracha: For a spicier, more garlicky flavor add a little bit of your favorite sriracha.
- Cholula: Add a little for some added smoky, sweet and spicy flavors to your wing recipe.
Hot Wings Recipe FAQs
Serve this homemade Buffalo sauce recipe with Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Sliders, Air Fryer Tater Tots or Air Fryer Buffalo Chicken Tenders.
Instead of melted butter you can use margarine.
To help the sauce not separate so much, you can shake or stir the sauce to re-combine the ingredients.
There are many theories as to the original birth place of Buffalo wings, but the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, N.Y. is most often thought of as having the original wings.
Expert Tips for Making This Recipe
- High-Quality Hot Sauce: The foundation of any good wing sauce is a delicious hot sauce. Try a Louisiana hot sauce.
- Toast the Spices: Lightly toast dried spices like garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, crushed red pepper or cayenne in a dry skillet over low heat to enhance flavor before adding them to the sauce.
- Simmer: Simmer the sauce over low heat, stirring occasionally, to allow the flavors to meld. Cooking low and slow can also help thicken the sauce.
- Let it Cool: Allow the sauce to cool slightly before making wings, baked or fried. Warm or even hot sauce will have a hard time sticking to the chicken.
- Depth of Flavor: Try changing up the flavors! Experiment with barbecue sauce, fresh garlic, Worcestershire sauce, blue cheese dressing, ranch or honey mustard.
Homemade Chicken Wing Sauce
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Ingredients
- 23 ounces Hot sauce, bottle of Frank's Hot Sauce
- 30 ounces Tomato sauce
- 10 ¾ ounces Tomato soup, 1 can
- 16 tablespoons Butter, 2 sticks
- 2 tablespoons Vinegar
- ½ teaspoon Cayenne pepper
- ½ teaspoon Tabasco
- 1 tablespoon Brown sugar
Instructions
- In a large pot combine all of the ingredients and simmer for 30-40 minutes.
Christina’s Notes
- High-Quality Hot Sauce: The foundation of any good wing sauce is a delicious hot sauce.
- Toast the Spices: Lightly toast dried spices like garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, crushed red pepper or cayenne in a dry skillet over low heat to enhance flavor before adding them to the sauce.
- Simmer: Simmer the sauce over low heat, stirring occasionally, to allow the flavors to meld. Cooking low and slow can also help thicken the sauce.
- Let it Cool: Allow the sauce to cool slightly before making wings, baked or fried. This will help the sauce adhere better to the chicken.
- Depth of Flavor: Try changing up the flavors! Experiment with barbecue sauce, fresh garlic, Worcestershire sauce, blue cheese dressing, ranch or honey mustard.
- Scale the recipe: Simply adjust the serving size in the recipe card and the ingredients will update automatically.
- Make your own All Purpose Seasoning: When a recipe calls for All Purpose Seasoning, you can use my homemade All Purpose Seasoning recipe or substitute salt and pepper to taste.
- Meat doneness: I always use a meat thermometer to test for doneness when cooking meat.
- Use unsalted butter: I use unsalted butter so I can control the salt level in the recipe.
- Preheat the oven: Unless otherwise noted, always preheat your oven before baking.
For more helpful information about this recipe, such as variations, substitutions and other pro-tips, check out the blog post.
llove it on boneless chicken.
This looks awesome!