Crispy and spicy buffalo-flavored popcorn chicken! Baked – not fried! They require just a few ingredients and only 30 minutes!

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Let me just apologize now for the slightly crazy color of this buffalo popcorn chicken. Cross my heart there was no photoshop trickery involved here. Seriously though. They’re like, fluorescent, it’s almost unnatural. It looks like I fished through the Dorrito bag to find all of the cheesiest and most thickly-coated chips I could possibly find, crushed them up, and dipped a bunch of itty bitty chicken pieces in them. I swear I didn’t do that.

Although now that I think about it…. that kind of sounds intensely delicious. Recipe to come!

Oh great, now you’re in the mood for Dorritos. There are no Dorritos in this recipe, I’m sorry! Only buffalo-saucy goodness. They should make Dorritos in buffalo flavor.

Dorritos-flavor-deciders are you taking notes?? This is good stuff here.

I just can’t get over the blinding bright color of these chicken bites. Don’t play hide n’ seek while holding these, you’ll lose for sure.

But hey if you can’t find reflectors for your bicycle for your midnight ride, I’ve gotcha covered.

They are almost obnoxiously bright red but I swear there is nothing obnoxious about their deliciousness. They are addictively good. And soooooo so easy.

Don’t be afraid of the 4-bowl dipping method, it sounds complex but is not. In fact it just simplifies the whole process.  You just put the stuff in a few little bowls and then dip down the row like an assembly line, it’s awesome. Fast track to yummy buffalo popcorn chicken. And isn’t popcorn chicken so cuuuute? Almost too cute to eat!

Almost.

And there is no frying involved! So your clothes will be spared of grease splatters and your diet does not have to be derailed, yet the crispiness will blow your mind. Really, it will.