Skip to main content
Main

Ruby Tuesday's Buffalo Chicken Wontons

A baked wonton cup filled with buffalo‑flavored shredded chicken, served with blue cheese dressing and celery.

From the Recipes Wiki (Fandom) · 11 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Chicken and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,839 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

The recipe

Oven325°F
Timeabout 5 minutes

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Prepare the wonton cups

  1. Preheat the oven to 325°F.

  2. Place the wonton wrappers on a work surface and brush lightly with vegetable oil.

  3. Mold the wrappers, oiled side up, into the bottoms of miniature (1-inch) muffin tins.

  4. Bake until light brown, about 5 minutes.

  5. Remove the wontons from the oven, let them cool slightly, then remove them from the muffin tins.

  6. Cool the wontons on a wire rack.

  7. Place the cooled wontons on a baking sheet and cover tightly with plastic wrap until ready to assemble.

Make the chicken filling

  1. Cook the chicken at a simmer until cooked through, about 12 minutes.

  2. Cool the chicken slightly, then finely chop and shred it with a fork.

  3. Season the shredded chicken with a little salt.

  4. In a medium bowl, mix together the hot sauce, liquid margarine, garlic powder, and cayenne pepper.

  5. Add the shredded chicken to the sauce mixture and stir well.

  6. Refrigerate the mixture until slightly chilled.

Assemble and serve

  1. To assemble, place 1 heaping teaspoon of the chicken mixture into each wonton cup.

  2. Garnish each cup with blue cheese dressing and crunchy celery sticks for dipping.

  3. Serve the wonton cups at room temperature.

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

This recipe comes from the Recipes Wiki on Fandom and is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Our formatting and summaries are shared under the same licence.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Pepper + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,001 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Blue cheese + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Chicken + blue cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together178 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Wonton wrappers
Form the crisp, edible cup that holds the filling once baked.
Boneless skinless chicken breasts
Provide the main protein, simmered until cooked through and shredded for the filling.
Louisiana hot sauce
Supplies the vinegary heat and flavor that defines the buffalo filling.
Liquid margarine
Adds fat and richness that carries the sauce and softens its sharpness.
Vegetable oil
Coats the wrappers so they brown and crisp evenly in the oven.

The step that matters

Chill the chicken mixture until slightly chilled before filling. Filling warm wontons with a hot, loose mixture can make the thin wrappers soften and turn soggy. Chilling firms the mixture so it holds its shape in the cups.

Flavor stand-ins for the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wonton wrapper, chicken, sauce, pepper, garlic, blue cheese):

  1. Celerythe original
  2. Jalapenoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Basilabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against wonton wrapper, chicken, sauce, pepper, garlic, blue cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

You might also like

Illustration of Chicken BrothIllustrationChicken Broth257 recipesIllustration of Chicken SoupIllustrationChicken Soup156 recipesIllustration of Cream of Celery SoupIllustrationCream of Celery Soup113 recipesIllustration of Macaroni and CheeseIllustrationMacaroni and Cheese102 recipes