These Slow Cooker BBQ Buffalo Chicken Sliders may be small but they come packin’ big flavor! A fabulous make-ahead choice for your game day gathering.
These sliders are insanely good and so, so easy to prepare that it makes me giddy.
I sent out a survey to my email subscribers a couple of weeks back asking what type of recipes you all would like to see coming your way and the response was wonderful. Thank you SO much to those that took the time to take the survey! You guys are the best.
A whopping 64% of you requested more slow cooker recipes – oh happy day! Slow cooker recipes are some of my very favorite recipes to create AND to cook in my own kitchen and I promise you’ll be seeing more of them in the coming weeks. Last week I shared one of my new favorites, Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala, and today I’m keeping the slow cooker recipes coming with these Slow Cooker BBQ Buffalo Chicken Sliders. They’re perfect for Super Bowl Sunday or an easy weeknight dinner.
I’m also working on some easy one-pot dinner ideas and some healthier choices to help keep you on track in the new year. Stay tuned!
There is an abundance of buffalo chicken recipes out there but I’ve done something a bit different here that makes these sliders stand apart. Chicken is slow cooked in a mixture of buffalo wing sauce and BBQ sauce for an out-of-this-world flavor combo. Cutting the spicy buffalo wing sauce with BBQ sauce also helps to temper the heat and while still a bit spicy, it makes these sliders far more crowd-friendly. Crunchy coleslaw mix and a drizzle of Ranch dressing also helps to balance the heat and crumbled blue cheese finishes them off to create the perfect game-day flavor package.
Shall we?
How to Make Slow Cooker BBQ Buffalo Chicken Sliders
You’ll need 4 good sized boneless, skinless chicken breasts and a bottle of buffalo wings sauce. I highly recommend Frank’s Redhot and honestly, is there any other? Frank’s makes a variety of different sauces so be sure you pick up the Buffalo Wings Sauce. Pour 1 cup of the sauce over the top of the chicken in your slow cooker.
Add 1/2 cup of your favorite mild BBQ sauce. And, that’s it. There is so much flavor here you do not need any additional seasoning. Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 7 hours.
When the chicken is fork tender and easy to break apart you are ready to shred.
Use a couple of forks to shred the chicken into the sauce mixture.
Pile the chicken on slider buns, top with undressed bagged coleslaw mix, a drizzle of Ranch dressing, and blue cheese crumbles. I realize that game day typically means diet splurge day for most of us however, if you go with light Ranch, these sliders are pretty low on the guilt scale as far as game day fare is concerned.
All the classic buffalo chicken flavors with no butter, no fatty skin, no grease. Yum-yum and win-win!
Slow Cooker BBQ Buffalo Chicken Sliders
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts, (approximately 2 pounds)
- 1 cup Frank’s Redhot Buffalo Wings Sauce
- ½ cup BBQ sauce, (I used Kinder’s Mild Original)
- 2 cups bagged coleslaw mix, tri color or angel hair
- 16 slider buns
- 1 cup bottled Ranch dressing
- 3 ounces crumbled blue cheese
Instructions
- Place the chicken in a 6-quart slow cooker and pour the wing sauce and BBQ sauce over the top. Cover slow cooker and cook on LOW for 6 to 7 hours or on HIGH for 4 to 5 hours until chicken shreds easily with a fork.
- Shred chicken and toss with the sauce. Serve on slider rolls topped with coleslaw mix, a drizzle of Ranch dressing, and some blue cheese crumbles.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated using generic ingredients, and is an estimate not a guarantee. For more accurate results, please refer to the labels on your ingredients at home.
Made these last night and they were a huge hit with my whole family!
Are these going to be Super Hot? Would like to double the recipe should I double everything?
Hi Judy. Frank’s definitely has a kick but the BBQ sauce does cut the heat quite a bit. You could always increase the amount of BBQ sauce to cut it even further. For me, it’s very mild as is. And, yes, you probably want to increase all the ingredients 2x to double the recipe.
If there’s one thing I cherish in my kitchen it’s definitely the slow cooker! These look and sound amazing, Valerie. Perfect for dinner or game day! 🙂
These sliders are delicious! I made these for my granddaughters 18th birthday party and we are having the leftovers for Super Bowl. We had them on Hawaiian sweet dinner rolls and it was a nice combination with the heat from the buffalo sauce. Thanks for sharing this recipe it’s soon to become a family favorite!!
Fantastic, Phyllis! I love the King’s Hawaiian Rolls and they would be fabulous with this recipe. So glad you enjoyed them and thanks so much for the feedback 🙂
How did you know what I wanted to make this weekend? Thanks for the simple but delicious recipe.
You are so welcome, Dani! Enjoy 🙂
These were delicious! I usually don’t substitute, but I used blue cheese dressing instead of ranch and put them on potato rolls. I am definitely making these again!
You can’t go wrong with blue cheese dressing! So glad you loved them 🙂
Oh yum, these look delicious Valerie!
Thanks so much, Nora! Hope you have a fun Super Bowl weekend 🙂