In Episode 015 BBQ Chicken Sliders: Susie shares this great recipe for little slider sandwiches. They are a perfect choice for dinner when you have leftover chicken or rotisserie chicken! They are great for a weeknight dinner or game day recipe.
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Intro: Welcome to Let’s Make Dinner, your audio library of amazing dinner recipes you can get on the table any night of the week. I’m your host, Susie Weinrich.
Susie Weinrich: Okay. I have some food trivia knowledge for you that I hope sometime you are in a trivia situation. You’ll be like, oh my gosh, I learned this fact on Let’s Make Dinner. It’s a great podcast. All right, you ready? Today we are making barbecue chicken sliders, and I knew I was going to come on here and talk about obviously sliders. I thought, why are they called sliders? What does that even mean? Why aren’t they called minis or littles or cuties or something like that? So I got to researching and the first thing that Google pulls up, I typed in Why are small burgers called sliders? This random website comes up. Interexchange.org. They have an article about sliders, and here’s what they say: the name originated in the 1940s when sailors in the Navy referred to mini burgers as sliders because of their extreme greasiness. In just one or two bites, the burgers would just slide right down. The slider was first created at White Castle, a popular American fast-food chain. I have never eaten at White Castle, but I obviously know what that is. It’s those tiny little greasy burgers on the little white buns.
Okay, so we’re having sliders for dinner. Ours are not going to be greasy and they are not going to be burgers. I feel like as soon as the sliders became really popular in the late nineties. Sliders were everywhere. You could get a flight of sliders at a restaurant. But what we are making for dinner is barbecue chicken sliders. So let’s get into this recipe.
If you like barbecue chicken pizza, then you are going to love this recipe. It’s basically all of those flavors, so barbecue chicken, barbecue sauce, red onion, provolone, cheese, cilantro, but instead of a pizza crust, you’re serving it on that smaller slider-style bun.
This dinner will be done in about 20 minutes, and this is also a great time to use leftover chicken or rotisserie chicken. We love to get rotisserie chickens at Costco. I think they’re under $6 still, and they are delicious and the meat is perfect to use in any recipe that calls for cooked chicken.
Tips and Tricks: Before we get started making this recipe, I have a few different tips for you. When you’re using slider buns, there are a few different options. You can now get actual slider buns by the hamburger buns. Or you can get a sheet of buns that would be more like dinner rolls that are all attached. Those are the ones I love to use. I love the King’s Hawaiian savory butter rolls because they’re all attached. You can literally slice the top buns from the bottom buns and keep them all attached until you’re ready to serve. Then you can slice them up into individual sandwiches.
Another tip is for using your cooked chicken. In episode four, we talked about making Instant Pot Pulled Barbecue Chicken. That would be a great recipe to use to make the chicken for these sandwiches. Or like I said before, a rotisserie chicken or poached chicken. Poached chicken is a great way to make a pre-cooked chicken for this recipe.
Now the last tip that I had before we get started is dealing with your red onions. If you are like me, if you eat a raw onion, that flavor can stay with you in your mouth for hours. It can also tend to overpower the dish. What I always recommend when you’re using raw onions is to slice them up and then either run them under cool water or soak them in a little cool water for like five minutes and that actually washes away the enzyme that will stay in your mouth and have you tasting onions way longer than you want to.
BBQ Chicken Sliders Recipe: Let’s get to making this recipe. So you want to preheat your oven to 350 degrees, and then you want to grab probably a 9×13 casserole dish. Go ahead and slice your buns in half so that the top buns are removed from the bottom buns. Take that sheet of bottom buns and place it in the 9×13 pan. Then you want to mix about two and a half to three cups of shredded cooked chicken with one cup of barbecue sauce. Then take all of that and spread it all across the bottom buns that are in your 9×13 dish, spreading it all the way to the edges. Then you’re going to top it with some sliced red onions, and some cilantro and then top it with provolone cheese so that it covers the entire span of chicken. Even if you have to overlap a little bit, that’s totally fine. You’re going to place the top buns on the sliders, cover the pan with foil, and then bake it for 15 minutes.
While that’s baking, you’re going to make this delicious garlicky butter deliciousness that’s going to go over the top of the buns. So in the microwave, you melt together two tablespoons of salted butter, one large garlic clove that’s well minced, and one tablespoon of parsley that is also minced. Give that a really good stir. Then you’re going to remove your chicken sliders from the oven. Take that foil off and brush that butter mix all over the top of the buns. Pop it uncovered back in the oven for five minutes and that’s it. It’s time to eat. You can slice them into individual little slider sandwiches or you can just pull them apart to serve.
When you’re serving your sliders. I like to plan about two sliders per person if it’s for dinner and if you have some hungry people, they may want to have three sliders. As far as side dishes go, I like to keep it simple. You could do macaroni salad, coleslaw, or potato chips. You could do fries, corn on the cob, or anything that goes with a barbecue dinner. These also make a great addition to a tailgating situation, game day, football party, or anything like that. Just set it out on a buffet, and then I usually plan one slider per person.
That does it for today. As always, I will link the full printable recipes for you in the show notes so you can find the recipe when you are ready to have barbecue chicken sliders.
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