Fan-favorite: Slow cooker Buffalo chicken sliders and blue cheese slaw

Fan-favorite: Slow cooker Buffalo chicken sliders and blue cheese slaw

Go for the win at your next potluck, party, or game day gathering with these easy, flavor-packed sliders. Let your Hamilton Beach Slow Cooker and Food Processor do the heavy lifting, and you’ll be able to feed the crowd without breaking a sweat.

The spicy Buffalo-style chicken combined with the tangy blue cheese slaw is the perfect fusion of flavors, making these slider sandwiches perfect game-day snacks. Best of all, they keep well in the fridge, so plan on enjoying leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

Slow cooker sliders recipe

Yield: Serves 10
Author: Hamilton Beach Test Kitchen

Slow cooker buffalo chicken sliders close up

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup hot sauce
  • 3 tablespoons butter, sliced
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 3 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  • Slider buns, split
  • Blue cheese coleslaw
  • 1/2 cup mayonnaise
  • 4 teaspoons hot sauce

Instructions

  1. Combine 3/4 cup hot sauce, butter, salt and pepper in slow cooker crock.
  2. Cover and cook on HIGH for 10 minutes or until butter is melted; stir until blended.
  3. Add chicken breasts, turning to coat with hot sauce mixture.
  4. Cover and cook on HIGH for 1 1/2 to 2 hours or LOW for 3 to 4 hours or until chicken is fork tender.
  5. Remove chicken from crock; reserve 1 1/2 cups liquid. Shred chicken and return to crock with reserved liquid.
  6. Combine mayonnaise and hot sauce. Spread mayonnaise mixture on bottom of buns. Top with chicken and coleslaw to assemble.

Easy coleslaw recipe

Yield: Serves 10
Author: Hamilton Beach Test Kitchen

Ingredients

  • ¾ cup mayonnaise
  • 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon celery seeds
  • ¼ teaspoon pepper
  • 1 small head green or red cabbage, shredded (about 5 cups)
  • 1 container (8 ounces) crumbled blue cheese

Instructions

  1. Combine mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, salt, celery seeds and pepper in a large bowl.
  2. Add cabbage and blue cheese, tossing until cabbage is coated.
  3. Cover and refrigerate several hours to allow flavors to combine.

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