Leftover Chick-fil-A Nuggets Are the Secret Ingredient to This Easy & Delicious Lunch Recipe

If you eat Chick-fil-A (and there are a lot of good reasons why you wouldn’t), the restaurant’s name combined with the word “leftovers” probably isn’t a particularly common occurrence around your way. Sure, people open up one of its meals with all of the best intentions to have some left to eat the next day—but before they know it, they’ve inhaled the whole thing.

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Sometimes, though, people do end up with Chick-fil-A leftovers and have a couple of its admittedly very tasty nuggets lying around. When that happens, there’s only one thing for it: Chick-fil-A nugget Buffalo chicken wraps.

Combine Nuggets and Buffalo Sauce for the Lunch of Your Life

Using Chick-fil-A chicken nuggets to make a Buffalo chicken wrap is just as easy as it sounds, folks. To do it, you just have to take your leftover nuggies and heat them for a few minutes; we prefer using the air fryer, but you can nuke them if you so wish. Pile them into your favorite flour tortilla, and then dollop on some store-bought Buffalo sauce (we’ve taste-tested the best ones, just FYI). Add in any extra toppings you want, like lettuce, shredded cheddar or mozzarella, or even some Chick-fil-A mac and cheese, and you’re good to go. 

If you don’t have any Chick-fil-A chicken nuggets to hand, then you can obviously make a Buffalo chicken wrap with any frozen chicken nuggets—but frankly, Chick-fil-A’s work very well in this recipe. The nuggets’ brininess helps to cut through the creaminess of the Buffalo sauce with a burst of acidity. Add in their crunch, and it’s game over. 

If you don’t want to buy Chick-fil-A, though, then here’s a top tip: Just Bare Lightly Breaded Chicken Bites are one of the best grocery store dupes out there. 

To Press, or Not to Press?

Chicken nugget Buffalo wraps are excellent without any additional work before eating them—and to be honest, we love the pillowiness of a fresh flour tortilla. However, sometimes you just want a little more crispiness. For those of you who do, we recommend popping your chicken wrap in that panini press that you got as a kitchen gift (and have probably never used..) for a few minutes before eating it. You’ll add some lovely crunch to the outside, and it’ll help to melt any cheese inside the wrap. 

If you’re going to do this, though, make sure you’ve tucked the ends of your wrap in nicely so that you don’t get any spillage. It’s also worth remembering that pressing and heating your wrap can cause more fragile ingredients inside it, like lettuce or cucumber, to wilt and lose their crunch. If you like your lunch to feel fresh, you might wanna keep things cool.