Slow Cooker Honey Buffalo Chicken Sliders Recipe

Chicken sliders made within the SLOW COOKER cooked in an superior candy and mildly spicy Buffalo sauce! Plus instructions to make this on the range and even in a strain cooker, AND an elective blue cheese sauce. These Honey Buffalo Chicken Sliders are an effective way to feed a crowd with minimal effort!

It’s Tremendous Bowl Sunday this weekend. Simply the most important recreation day in America in all the yr.

To place this into perspective for Australians, it’s like our equal of the Melbourne Cup. You understand how we name that the “race that stops the nation”? And it actually does – I used to be as soon as on the M5 and visitors virtually got here to a standstill for the three minutes the race was on.

Nicely, on Tremendous Bowl Sunday, mainly all the United States of America involves a standstill for the annual championship of American soccer. All 300 million or so Individuals may be accounted for doing certainly one of 3 issues:

• Glued to the TV, chugging beers and nibbling on meals that may be eaten with arms, with out taking your eyes off the TV*;

• Making meals for the sports-obsessed, and socialising with the non-sports-obsessed; or

• Simply typically having fun with this unofficial vacation!

* The definition of Recreation Day Meals as per RecipeTin Eats-pedia. The next meet the stringent necessities:

MY TOP GAME DAY PICKS

Cheese and Bacon Potato Skins

Oven Pork Ribs with Barbecue Sauce

Chicken Nachos recipe

Garlic Bread Mini Pizzas (Muffin Tin)

Actually Crispy Oven Baked Chicken Wings

Ham and Cheese Puffs

Tacky Jalapeno Bacon Stuffed Baguette

So this can be a final minute Tremendous Bowl Sunday recipe that I’m sharing for all of those that haven’t been planning Recreation Day Meals for weeks and weeks and are pressed for time. 🙂

These Honey Buffalo Chicken Sliders take 5 minutes preparation. Possibly 7 – relies upon how organised your pantry is. Throw chicken and a handful of different components into the sluggish cooker, together with honey, butter and sizzling sauce that are the bottom of a standard Buffalo Sauce. I add different flavourings within the sauce to jazz it up as a result of I discover the style a bit plain to make use of for sliders.

Set the sluggish cooker, then 4 hours later, open it as much as discover completely cooked chicken sitting in a pool of scrumptious sauce, prepared for shredding.

One factor to notice about shredded chicken: I’m not a fan of pulled / shredded meats which are cooked past tender so they’re mushy. I even have a little bit of a cling up about mushy-pulled meats, particularly on sliders.

So the prepare dinner time for this chicken is kind of particular! It yields a young chicken that shreds very simply with two forks with barely any effort, however the shredded items keep their form and texture properly, moderately than disintegrating which is what occurs in case you overcook chicken breast. 🙂

And now….the sauce. Let’s speak concerning the Honey Buffalo Sauce! Cooking the chicken within the sauce serves 2 functions: infuses flavour into the chicken, and the chicken juices flavours the sauce. It’s too skinny to make use of straight out the sluggish cooker so it wants simply 5 minutes of cooking with the assistance of a little bit cornstarch / cornflour to thicken up when you shred the chicken. I love that my sluggish cooker has a sauté operate so I can go away it in my sluggish cooker for this step!

And right here it’s. Tender, juicy shredded chicken tossed in a mildly spicy, honey-sweetened sauce. Oh my. Knees, weak.

Pile it onto rolls with a contact of token greens (as a result of, you understand…I’m all about properly rounded meals right here! 😉 )…..

And in case you actually wish to go all out, make some Blue Cheese Sauce for the blue cheese followers! (That’d be me, however I’d say my buddies are break up fairly evenly within the professional and anti blue-cheese camps. So I at all times serve blue cheese on the facet!)

Oh boy, joyful days.

You already know that 2 seconds after I took this shot, there was an unlimited BITE taken out of this, don’t you??

However extra necessary than whether or not you’re within the Blue Cheese camp, which camp are you in for SUPER BOWL SUNDAY 2016??

a) Denver BRONCOS!
b) Carolina PANTHERS!
c) Neither. I simply get excited concerning the meals!

For disclosure functions, I’m c). 😉 

Slow Cooker Honey Buffalo Chicken Sliders Recipe

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Serves: 7 Prep Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 4 hours 4 hours

Nutrition facts: 518 calories 20 grams fat

Rating: 5.0/5

( 1 voted )

Ingredients

• 2 lb / 1 kg chicken breast , boneless skinless (3 large or 4 small)
• 4 tbsp butter
• 3/4 cup hot sauce of choice (Note 2)
• 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp honey
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 3 tbsp tomato ketchup (or Australian tomato sauce)
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder (or onion powder)
• 1/2 tsp paprika
• 1/2 tsp dried thyme (or 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves)
• 1 tsp salt
• Black pepper
• 1 1/2 tbsp cornstarch / corn flour
• 7 rolls
• Lettuce of choice (optional)
• Blue Cheese Sauce (optional – see recipe below)
• 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese , softened (I use gorgonzola)
• 1/4 cup sour cream (I usually use low fat)
• 1/4 cup mayonnaise
• 1 small garlic clove , minced
• 2 – 4 tbsp milk
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp salt
• Black pepper

Instructions

1. Place chicken in one layer in slow cooker and sprinkle with garlic powder, paprika, thyme, salt and pepper. Add remaining Buffalo Chicken ingredients, mostly around the chicken rather than on top. Cook on LOW for 4 hours. (Note 2)
2. Remove chicken from slow cooker and shred roughly with too forks.
3. Toss in Sauce and keep warm.
4. Mix cornstarch with 2 tbsp water and add to Sauce (after chicken is removed). Simmer on sauté setting in slow cooker for 5 minutes, or until thickened to a syrup consistency (or transfer to saucepan and do this over medium heat).
5. Adjust salt & spiciness to taste per Note 1.
6. Split rolls in half and toast (if desired). Butter (if desired), then place lettuce on bottom half and top with chicken. Serve warm, with Blue Cheese Sauce if you’re a fan of blue cheese!
7. Place blue cheese and sour cream in a bowl and mush with a fork, to taste. I like mine a bit chunky.
8. Add remaining ingredients, using milk to adjust the consistency to your taste. I like it thick so it doesn’t run everywhere.

Notes

1. I make this with a variety of hot sauces for different spiciness and slightly different flavours. I love them all!
a) Mildest: use 1 bottle (5oz/148ml) Franks Original Hot Sauce (sold in Coles and Woolworths in Australia in the tomato sauce / BBQ sauce section) which is the classic hot sauce used in Buffalo Sauce for Chicken Wings (like in this recipe).
b) Hotter, but not “blow your head off” spicy: Franks Hot Wings Sauce (not available in Australia as far as I know, sorry! And I’m out of my stash!)
c) Sriracha: Wee bit hotter than b), and with a nice garlicky kick!
d) Trident Hot Chilli Sauce: Just as spicy as c), but slightly thicker than all the above 3 so the sauce is slightly thicker which I like!
e) EXTRA HEAT: Right at the end when you reduce the sauce, you can adjust the spiciness of the sauce with cayenne pepper, tabasco or more hot sauce of choice.
2. This can also be made in a pressure cooker or on the stove.PRESSURE COOKER: 30 minutes on high.STOVE: Add 1/2 cup of water and simmer for 50 minutes to 1 hour (with lid), or until chicken is fork tender.
3. Nutrition for Buffalo Chicken Sliders (excluding blue cheese sauce), per serving assuming 8 servings.