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These easy BBQ Chicken Sliders make an easy weeknight meal and they're a perfect game day recipe, too! We're talking about pulled chicken tossed with barbecue sauce and topped with melted cheese, pickled onions, baked on soft white dinner rolls and brushed with garlic butter. Just see if you can resist them!

BBQ Chicken Sliders

Rebecca Lindamood
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
These easy BBQ Chicken Sliders make an easy weeknight meal and they're a perfect game day recipe, too! We're talking about pulled chicken tossed with barbecue sauce and topped with melted cheese, pickled onions, baked on soft white dinner rolls and brushed with garlic butter. Just see if you can resist them!

Equipment

  • Traeger Pellet Grill/Smoker or Oven
  • aluminum foil
  • 9 x 13 Pan or Quarter Sheet Pan
  • mixing bowl
  • spoon
  • Microwave Safe Bowl

Ingredients
  

  • 4 tablespoons salted butter
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
  • ¼ cup minced parsley divided
  • 4 cups shredded fully cooked chicken approximately 1 rotisserie chicken or 1 whole smoked chicken, shredded
  • 1 cup BBQ Sauce plus additional for serving
  • 1 package Rhodes Warm and Serve White Rolls
  • ½ cup pickled red onions well drained (or ¼ cup thinly sliced red onion)
  • 12 thin slices provolone cheese

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your Traeger or oven to 350ºF.
  • Place the butter and garlic in a microwave safe bowl, cover with a paper towel and microwave on high for 1 minute. Stir gently and use a pastry brush to grease the bottom of a quarter sheet pan or a 9”x13” pan with about 2 tablespoons of the garlic butter.
  • Stir 2 tablespoons of the minced parsley into the butter and set it aside.
  • Stir the shredded chicken and ½ cup of the barbecue sauce together in a mixing bowl. Toss it well to distribute the sauce evenly.
  • Slice each of the rolls in half to turn them into slider rolls. Arrange the bottom halves in the pan. You may need to wedge them in tightly to get them to fit. This is okay.
  • Top the bottom halves of the rolls with an even layer of the bbq chicken.
  • Arrange the pickled or thinly sliced red onions over the chicken, then sprinkle the remaining parsley over everything. Top each roll with a thin slice of provolone. They will likely overlap and this is good.
  • Position the top halves of the rolls over each sandwich, cover with foil, and bake on the Traeger for 15 minutes. Remove the foil, brush with the garlic butter, and bake for 10 more minutes.
  • Brush the BBQ Chicken Sliders with any remaining garlic butter and let them rest on the pan for 5 minutes. Transfer to a serving platter and offer extra barbecue sauce for those who’d like it.

Nutrition

Calories: 448kcalCarbohydrates: 19gProtein: 36gFat: 24gSaturated Fat: 13gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0.3gCholesterol: 116mgSodium: 1191mgPotassium: 334mgFiber: 1gSugar: 12gVitamin A: 817IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 321mgIron: 2mg

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