Buffalo Chicken Stromboli - Pair this easy Stromboli with a salad for an effortless weeknight meal or serve it up as a tasty game day appetizer/snack!

I've been craving buffalo chicken lately. I don't know if it's all the pizza delivery commercials I've been seeing for football season or what, but I've just been wanting it. Wanting it bad. So bad in fact that the other night when we ordered pizza, we got a big order of buffalo chicken tenders.

It was a bummer. They were soggy and just an overall disappointment. At least the pizza was decent, sort of.

A few days later and I still couldn't get buffalo chicken out of my head. I decided to take matters into my own hands and made a mental note to grab some needed ingredients while food shopping for some kind of buffalo chicken dish.

I had boneless chicken tenders on my grocery list but while I was shopping, it occurred to me that buying a cooked rotisserie chicken would make more sense. A. It would be quicker than cooking out the chicken. B. Rotisserie chickens are way cheaper than buying a pound of boneless chicken tenders or breasts. I will never understand that. It doesn't make sense that I pay less for a chicken that I don't have to cook? Whatever, it works for me.

I also grabbed some refrigerated pizza dough while I was shopping because as I was walking through the store, the thought came to me to make a calzone or Stromboli.

Okay, so what is the difference between a calzone or a Stromboli?

I have no idea. I have read two different things. One difference I read was that a calzone has ricotta but a Stromboli can have any kind of cheese. The second difference I read was in the way it was folded. After much contemplation, I decided to call this a Stromboli. My husband referred to it as a calzone, so honestly, call it whatever the heck you want. I call it freaking delicious!

To put this together just stir together the chopped up chicken, hot sauce, mozzarella cheese, carrots and celery. Place that mixture down the center of your unrolled pizza dough. Top it with blue cheese crumbles. Guys, do yourselves a favor and buy double the amount of blue cheese and make yourself a batch of my Bacon Blue Cheese Jalapeno Poppers too. If you didn't check those out yesterday, check them out today. Seriously, good food. Okay, back to the Stromboli. So once your ingredients are on there, you fold up the small ends first and then the long ends. Kind of like you would fold a burrito. Kind of.

Fold up the small ends first and then overlap the sides.

Bake it and serve it.

This Stromboli makes a great appetizer for game day or a quick dinner paired with a salad.

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