Homemade Buffalo Wing Sauce

This tangy and spicy Buffalo Sauce can be whipped up in a jiffy, and will pair perfectly with your chicken wings, tacos, salads and more!

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I love spicy food. And I love sauces. As I began to expand my cooking repertoire many years ago, I knew that I wanted to try my best to make foods from scratch.

When it came to spicy buffalo sauce, I always came across recipes that called for Frank’s Red Hot Sauce. Now, no disrespect to “Frank”, but I wanted to try making a batch of Buffalo sauce without that as an ingredient. After some tinkering with measurements, I finally came up with a delicious, from-scratch recipe for buffalo sauce.

This can be used poured over a hot batch of chicken wings, or as a condiment for salads, or added to a mix of meatballs.

Homemade Buffalo Wing Sauce

Monique Creary
This tangy and spicy Buffalo Sauce can be whipped up in a jiffy, and will pair perfectly with your chicken wings, tacos, salads and more!
5 from 5 votes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Servings 1 cup

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup ketchup
  • 3 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 1 tsp cayenne pepper or crushed hot pepper flakes
  • 1/2 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/2 tsp onion powder
  • 1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/4 cup salted butter

Instructions
 

  • In a small saucepan combine the ketchup, apple cider vinegar, honey, hot pepper flakes, garlic powder, onion powder and Worcestershire sauce. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, whisking occasionally.
  • Stir in butter until the sauce starts to come together and remove from heat.

Notes

  • Depending on how spicy you like your sauce, you can chose to use more or less cayenne pepper.
  • This stores well in the fridge. Once cooled just pour into an air-tight mason jar and use at your leisure!


11 thoughts on “Homemade Buffalo Wing Sauce”

  • Just tried the recipe and I’m impressed. I was looking for a recipe without Frank’s and this is the one. I’m frying or maybe broiling chantrelles to sub as chicken wings.

    5 stars

    • Thank you, Mat! Chanterelles sound like a nice alternative! I may try this sauce with my Fried Mushroom recipe now! :D
  • Thank you veey much for being literally one of the only recipes that does not include franks red hot i typed in "homemade buffalo sauce without franks" and still had to go through almost ten other recipe sites before i found yours. Im saying your should have been first ob the list! Friggin google! But anyways thanks. Trying recipe right now.

    5 stars

    • Thank you soooo much! I appreciate your comment. Honestly, before when I was looking for hot sauce recipes I ran into the same problem you did... lol. I rather stick to the basics and not use a hot sauce for a hot sauce/buffalo sauce recipe. :D I actually shot the video for this recipe earlier this week, so will be updating the photos as well too!
    • Yes thank you soo much for NOT using franks hot sauce. I cannot tale some " heat" . i prefer to create w/ my ingredients for my level of heat. My boyfriend lives super spicy so he can add more to a separate jar for his liking.🙏🌈🌛

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