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Learn how to make Honey Buffalo Sauce with just three ingredients! Homemade buffalo sauce is spicy, tangy, easy to make, and versatile, too. You'll want to make your own buffalo sauce every time!
Hot Honey Buffalo Sauce
Hot wing sauce is perfect for all kinds of dishes, from homemade buffalo wings to buffalo ranch dip, buffalo cauliflower bites, buffalo meatballs, buffalo chicken dip, and more! The best part about this recipe is that it uses just three ingredients and is ready in 5 minutes.
The best buffalo sauce is homemade buffalo sauce. Not only does it taste amazing on so many things, it only takes 5 minutes and 3 ingredients to make. The secret ingredient is the honey!
Honey Buffalo Wing Sauce Ingredients
- Butter: I use unsalted butter so I can adjust the saltiness to my tastes.
- Hot Sauce: You can pick your favorite, but I recommend the classic: Frank's RedHot. It's simple and flavorful with all the complexity in one bottle.
- Honey: Honey is the secret to the best buffalo sauce! The sweet stickiness makes it cling to whatever is dipped in it, and adds a wonderful flavor that helps balance out the sharp and tangy hot sauce.
Buffalo Sauce with Honey Instructions
- Heat a saucepan to medium heat and add the unsalted butter to the pan. Stir the butter around as it slowly melts in the pan. Heat it just until it melts, and be careful that it doesn't brown or burn.
- Once the butter has melted add the hot sauce to the skillet. Whisk the hot sauce into the butter until completely combined and let it simmer for a couple of minutes.
- Continue to cook the sauce on medium-low for a few minutes and allow the ingredients to melt together.
- Add the honey to the buffalo sauce and stir until the honey is combined.
- Remove the skillet from the heat when it is heated through. Serve with your favorite recipes!
Ready to spice it up? Try mixing sweet buffalo sauce into blue cheese dressing and ranch dressing!
Try this recipe using my favorite buffalo sauce seasoning!
Wing Sauce Recipes
Buffalo Wing Sauce with Honey Expert Tips
- The star of buffalo sauce is the hot sauce itself. My favorite hot sauce to use is Frank's Red Hot Original variety. Frank's Red Hot gives you that quintessential 'buffalo' flavor to which we are accustomed. It uses aged cayenne peppers, white vinegar, and some garlic.
- Like a sweeter sauce? Just add a little bit more honey!
- If you can tolerate the heat and like a hotter sauce, feel free to add a few dashes of Tabasco sauce or cayenne pepper!
- For a more complex sauce, or if you're using a less flavorful hot sauce thank Frank's Red Hot, try adding a teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, and salt.
- And of course, don't forget to save the bones from chicken wings for homemade chicken stock!
Honey Buffalo Sauce FAQ
Have you ever wondered why it's called buffalo sauce? If so, you're not alone! Buffalo wings originated at a place called the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York. As with most food origin stories, there are a number of variations regarding how and why the recipe was created, but the fact is that it happened in Buffalo, New York - so that's what makes it Buffalo sauce!
Buffalo sauce is a little spicy, but you can adjust the flavor to make it more or less spicy by using honey. The honey in this recipe cuts down the spice a little bit, but you can add more honey to make it even less spicy.
If you'd like to make it even spicier, though, feel free to add a few dashes of Tabasco sauce or cayenne pepper!
Buffalo sauce should contain a nice balance of spicy, tangy, and even a little sweet, depending on how much honey or sugar is added to it.
Chicken Wing Recipes
- The most popular use for it is to add it to Homemade Buffalo Wings. This is a personal favorite of mine, but I also love it with ultra-flavorful smoked chicken wings!
- My popular crock pot chicken wings are also so good when made with this homemade buffalo sauce recipe.
- If you've never tried it before, chicken wings in the air fryer are perfect and don't heat up the house or make a mess! You can make Instant Pot chicken wings too for similarly fast and easy results!
- If you're looking for that classic crunch, there's no beating deep fried chicken wings made at home.
- Cauliflower Wings are such a great lighter option too!
Learn how to cut chicken wings perfectly with my step-by-step guide.
Homemade Sauce Recipes
- Peri Peri Sauce Recipe: A spicy, flavorful sauce, perfect for Peri Peri Chicken!
- How to Make Alfredo Sauce: Make a cheesy, delicious Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken with this homemade Alfredo recipe.
- Remoulade Sauce Recipe: Creamy, tangy, and versatile, too! Pair remoulade sauce with seafood.
- Mayo Mustard Sauce
- Orange Vinaigrette
Honey Buffalo Sauce
It's easy to learn how to make buffalo sauce! And trust me, it's so worth it to make your own instead of buying it. Homemade buffalo hot sauce is incredibly flavorful! It's definitely the best hot sauce for wings, but you can use it for so much more!
Did you make this recipe? Give it a rating and let me know what you think! I love to hear from you. And why not give it a try with my Fried Chicken Wings Recipe?
Honey Buffalo Sauce
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 Tbsps. unsalted butter
- ¾ cup Frank's Red Hot Original Hot Sauce
- 1 Tbsp. honey
Instructions
- Heat a skillet to medium-low and add 4 Tbsps. of butter to the pan. Slowly melt the butter in the skillet and stir to prevent burning.
- Once the butter has melted add ¾ cup of Frank's Red Hot Sauce to the pan. Stir to incorporate into the butter.
- Add 1 Tbsp. of honey to the butter and hot sauce. Stir until completely combined. Continue to heat on medium-low for a few minutes until it has heated through. Remove skillet from heat when finished.
- Adjust the spice levels as you like. Add more honey for less spice and a few dashes of Tabasco sauce for more spice. Remove from heat and enjoy on your favorite recipes!
Notes
- The star of buffalo sauce is the hot sauce itself. My favorite hot sauce to use is Frank's Red Hot Original variety. Frank's Red Hot gives you that quintessential 'buffalo' flavor to which we are accustomed. It uses aged cayenne peppers, white vinegar, and some garlic.
- Like a sweeter sauce? Just add a little bit more honey!
- If you can tolerate the heat and like a hotter sauce, feel free to add a few dashes of Tabasco sauce or cayenne pepper!
- For a more complex sauce, or if you're using a less flavorful hot sauce thank Frank's Red Hot, try adding a teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, and salt.
- And of course, don't forget to save the bones from chicken wings for homemade chicken stock!
Emmanuel Chibuikem says
My world! Those wings are to die for
Em Beitel says
Thank you, Emmanuel! We love these wings.