A few days ago, I posted an easy and fast recipe for Barbecue Chicken Sandwiches. I thought about the sandwich that I had for dinner the next morning and for the rest of the day. How could I take that idea and make it into something else? The sandwich took no time to put together, it was delicious and everyone in my house liked it. Then it came to me, a buffalo chicken version. I cannot believe that I have had this blog since February and have not included anything buffalo-style. My husband lives and breathes chicken wings. Obviously, it is a sometimes food and he cannot eat wings as often as he would like. In order to appease his quite-often craving, I have made buffalo chicken pizzas, chicken sandwiches, you name it, we have eaten it. But none of my buffalo creations are as easy or as cute as this.
I used the same technique as I did in the Barbecue Chicken Sandwiches, but have changed the sauce, made a blue cheese spread, and put them on super cute slider buns. I also made a little salad that is a play on the carrots and celery that is usually served with chicken wings. I used butter lettuce, shredded carrots, diced celery and a sprinkling of blue cheese. I made a super simple vinaigrette and the whole thing was made and on the table in 20 minutes.
1 rotisserie chicken, shredded
slider buns or whatever bun you would like
3 Tablespoons butter
1/2 cup hot sauce (we use Frank’s at our house)
4 Tablespoons honey
2 Tablespoons white vinegar
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
For the blue cheese spread:
1/2 cup sour cream
1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
1 tablespoon vinegar
3 chopped green onions
salt and pepper to taste
Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
Add the hot sauce, honey, vinegar, salt and pepper. Bring to a bubble. I think that the honey is the most important ingredient in this recipe. If you do not include the honey, there is no balance, it will just be hot, this sauce has layers. I have really played around with this sauce recipe and it is the favorite in this buffalo obsessed house. While you are waiting for your sauce to come to a bubble, toast some buns.
Add the shredded chicken and cook until heated through.
Put all of the spread ingredients in a bowl.
Mix it together. Give it a taste to make sure that it is seasoned properly. How easy is this? This is great on its own to dip celery and carrots into if you do not feel like making a dressing for a salad. I also would imagine that a potato chip in that dip would be pretty divine as well.
I made a little slider assembly line. I spread some blue cheese spread on one side and added the chicken on top. I put the top on and was done.
How cute do those sliders look in big hands? This dude really likes a good buffalo sandwich.
There you have it. Dinner in 20 minutes. I have a few other ideas brewing using this technique. I cannot wait to try them out.
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PinIngredients
- 1 rotisserie chicken, shredded
- slider buns or whatever bun you would like
- 3 Tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup hot sauce (we use Frank’s at our house)
- 4 Tablespoons honey
- 2 Tablespoons white vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- For the blue cheese spread:
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 3 chopped green onions
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Add the hot sauce, honey, vinegar, salt and pepper. Bring to a bubble. I think that the honey is the most important ingredient in this recipe. If you do not include the honey, there is no balance, it will just be hot, this sauce has layers. I have really played around with this sauce recipe and it is the favorite in this buffalo obsessed house. While you are waiting for your sauce to come to a bubble, toast some buns.
- Add the shredded chicken and cook until heated through.
- Put all of the spread ingredients in a bowl.
- Mix it together. Give it a taste to make sure that it is seasoned properly. How easy is this? This is great on its own to dip celery and carrots into if you do not feel like making a dressing for a salad. I also would imagine that a potato chip in that dip would be pretty divine as well.
- I made a little slider assembly line. I spread some blue cheese spread on one side and added the chicken on top. I put the top on and was done.
June 8th, 2010 at 10:54 am
Omg these look delectable and adorable! I need a few!
June 9th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
come on over!
June 8th, 2010 at 11:20 am
THOSE LOOK SO YUMMY… now I’m thinking I should change my party menu! And WES really looked like he enjoyed them!
June 9th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
the man loves a good buffalo chicken sandwich.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
These little sandwiches look delish. I think I’ll make these for the 4th of July!
I just discovered your site for the first time. I saw your recipe for Sub Dip on The Kitchn and had to check it out. LOVE your site. It’s so well organized for a new blog. Your photography is fantastic. I look forward to reading more posts.
Kris
Mill Valley, CA
June 9th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
they would be perfect for the 4th of July. Thank you for reading. I appreciate it.
June 8th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
I’m making your BBQ Chicken sandwiches tonight, sauce is simmering as I type. Now I have to try these too! Can’t wait.
Love your blog
June 9th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
hope that you liked them!
June 8th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
These look delish. I might have to make them this summer. My family would love them. I bet they would be good as a wrap with coleslaw.
June 8th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Hi,
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June 9th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
I will, thank you for suggesting it.
June 8th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Bree,
I have to tell you, I am NOT into blogs AT ALL, in fact I recently just started browsing through them (I know, I´ve been living under a rock), so if I´m not a big blog reader, you can imagine I´m even less of a blog commentator, but let me tell you, I LOOOOOVE YOUR BLOG!!!!!! Love, love, love it! I´m a huge food person, and I especially love simple, uncomplicated dishes that look stellar, (so far, all your recipies fit the bill), PLUS I looove photography, and food styling, and yours is AWSOME!!! Your pictures are beautiful to look at, and inspiring as well. congrats, and I hope you keep this up for a long time! (Just so you know, this is the first time I post anything on a blog, ever!)
June 9th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
thank you so much Lena. Thank you for reading and for having your first comment ever be here. I am very honored.
June 9th, 2010 at 8:19 am
Those look SO good – I could eat a ton of them!
June 9th, 2010 at 8:32 am
Nothing beats Frank’s hot sauce. My hubby from upstate NY will love these. I always have a hard time finding little slider buns… those are so cute.
June 9th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
I found them at Trader Joe’s, but I have seen them in the regular grocery store lately.
June 9th, 2010 at 9:21 am
I love buffalo chicken anything…and these are so CUTE! Can’t wait to try them–great creation 🙂
June 9th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
I hope that you do. Let me know how it turns out for you.
June 9th, 2010 at 11:02 am
Yumm, looks like a good dinner to me!
June 9th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
It was so good. I could eat that at least once a week.
June 9th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
thanks for the heads up, but I am not sure what the issue with my font is.
June 10th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
When I saw the mixer in the background on the prep photo, I was wondering how it was going to be used in this recipe hahaha. I guess it was just supposed to be there for decoration.
Anyway, these sliders look scrumptious. I cannot wait to eat solid foods again!
June 11th, 2010 at 8:38 am
Why are you not eating solid foods??
The mixer is always on my counter but usually I put it on the floor to take the pictures, I just forgot. But you know how much I love my Kitchen Aid!
June 12th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
OMG! The blue cheese spread takes these over the top. Lovely chicken sandwiches. I love how teeny tiny and perfect they are 🙂
June 13th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
they were yummy.
June 18th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
This was a little piece of buffalo chicken heaven. That sauce is awesome – the blue cheese and the hot sauce. Are you still spinning your wheels on ideas for this technique? Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
June 22nd, 2010 at 12:45 pm
We’re making these tomorrow night and I was wondering how many this recipe makes so I can plan accordingly. Can’t wait!!
Traci =)
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:11 pm
it depends on how big your chicken is. I used Costco chickens and got about 4-6 sandwiches out of it.
July 15th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Probably my all time favorite (and easiest) sandwich I have ever made! Thank you, this will be a staple in our house from now on!
July 18th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Wow! Thanks, I am glad that you like them!
August 17th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
I don’t know if I am happier that I found this recipe or your blog!! Everyone in my house LOVED this dish!! (1 hub, 2 teens and 2 toddlers (omitted hot sauce for the little ones.)) Thank you SO much for sharing your talents with the rest of us!! I just featured your blog and recipe on my blog!! https://dolcedomestic.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-roll-buffalo-chicken-sliders.html
August 21st, 2010 at 11:24 pm
I am so glad that your family enjoyed these. Thank you for the blog love!
November 9th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
I saw you said these make about 4-6 sandwhiches with one rotisserie chicken, I am making these for my husbands birthday tomorrow with about 12 people being there, so I figure that is 24 of these guys. Can I use chicken breast instead? and how would you cook it?
November 10th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Absolutely. I would just roast it in a 350 degree oven for about 30 minutes.
February 4th, 2011 at 6:28 am
So simple! Thank you, thank you!
February 5th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
you are welcome!
February 23rd, 2011 at 4:56 pm
These are now a favorite in our house, thanks for the great recipe!
February 26th, 2011 at 8:50 am
You are welcome Anna!
March 9th, 2011 at 10:45 am
Hi! Do you think you could subsitute Apple Cider vinegar for the white vinegar in the Blue Cheese spread? That’s what I have in my pantry. Hoping to make these this weekend- they look FANTASTIC!
March 9th, 2011 at 11:03 pm
Of course, it will be great.
March 21st, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Bree, I made these for Superbowl Sunday and they were SO very good! I’m going to revisit them with the barbeque twist. Sliders: yummy AND cute – everybody wins!
March 22nd, 2011 at 11:08 pm
Let me know how it goes! I love taking something I love and adapting it into something else.
March 31st, 2011 at 1:03 pm
These were delicious!!! My boyfriend is a huge Frank’s fan….So I surprised him with these for dinner! Great choice, they will definitely be made many more times. Thank you 🙂
April 2nd, 2011 at 10:25 pm
great! glad that you liked them Amy.
June 29th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
I made these tonight and they were great. I’ll be making them again.
June 29th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
So glad Sandy! Love these.
December 1st, 2011 at 10:20 pm
where do u find slider buns
?? i usually shop at our walmart super store.. please let me know my husband loves buffalo not i but he would looooooooove it ifi made these!
December 4th, 2011 at 10:34 pm
If you cannot find true slider buns, you can use dinner rolls.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:20 am
Yum!! I am going to the store and making these tonight! Thanks ^_^
March 1st, 2012 at 11:35 pm
You are welcome Alexis.
March 16th, 2012 at 11:36 am
Im just stumbling on this recipe now! looks really good and I think i need to try these 🙂 where did you get the mini hamburger buns though?? ive never seen them anywhere.
March 18th, 2012 at 11:37 pm
I got these at Trader Joes, but you could use a dinner roll. I even saw mini English muffins the other day at Super target.
November 5th, 2013 at 3:03 pm
Need to feed 9 adults (other food will be there as well), do you mean 4 – 6 mini sandwiches??
November 6th, 2013 at 4:04 pm
Yes, it was two sliders per person.
May 8th, 2014 at 6:29 pm
To make them genuinely “Buffalo” the rolls should be kummelweck–a kaiser roless brushed with corse salt and seseme seeds
May 8th, 2014 at 11:59 pm
To each his own, I like them on any bun.
November 6th, 2014 at 6:45 pm
These were delicious! Thanks for the recipe. Just to let you know, in the print out directions, you forgot to put “Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat” as the first instruction. I got to the end and saw my butter sitting on the counter. Then when I looked through the pictures, I saw it was the first step. I added it at the end and it wasn’t a big deal, but just thought I’d let you know so you can add it. Thanks again for the yummy recipe!
November 7th, 2014 at 9:30 am
Glad that you liked them, and thanks for letting me know!
November 26th, 2014 at 9:14 pm
My husband and I love this recipe. Is there any way to thicken up the sauce?
November 27th, 2014 at 1:35 pm
You could maybe add a little slurry of cornstarch and water, but it needs to come to a full bubble.
December 6th, 2014 at 6:15 am
Thank you!