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These Buffalo Chicken Sliders are perfect for feeding a hungry crowd quickly and easily. Whether it’s a weeknight dinner or a casual get-together where you use these as appetizers, your guests won’t be able to stop at just one!
Reasons You’ll Love This Recipe
- Buffalo Flavor: I love any thing buffalo chicken flavor (hello, this delicious buffalo chicken dip). But these tiny hand-held buffalo chicken sliders take this yummy flavor to the next level!
- Family Friendly: Combining the buffalo sauce with the creamy ranch makes the heat pretty mild, so even my youngest taste tester loved this recipe.
- Game Day: These buffalo sliders will be perfect for the next big game. Complete the game-day menu with this dill pickle dip, some honey garlic chicken wings, and pizza pinwheels.
Ingredients in Buffalo Sliders
With simple ingredients and a simple chicken sliders recipe, you have made a recipe that everyone will be raving about! See the full recipe in the recipe card below.
- Hawaiian Rolls: Look for the ones that come in packages of 12.
- Shredded Chicken: I love to use leftover cooked chicken or rotisserie chicken to make this meal quick and easy.
- Frank’s Buffalo Sauce: This hot sauce is my preferred brand because the flavor is right. It’s tangy and not too spicy. Or, you can make it from scratch using this Homemade Buffalo Sauce Recipe.
- Ranch Dressing: This keeps the heat nice and mild. Try my homemade ranch dressing recipe if you want it to be extra delicious!
- White Cheddar Cheese: Pre-shredded cheese works great for these sliders.
- Veggies: I like to use green onions, carrots, and celery for this recipe. You can substitute them for a coleslaw mix if that’s easier!
- Butter: Use salted butter for the best flavor.
- Seasoning: Mixing Garlic Powder and Dried Onion Flakes with melted butter adds flavor to the tops.
- Blue Cheese: Add this to the top as a garnish.
How to Make Buffalo Chicken Sliders
These sliders are incredibly simple to make. I mostly used store bought ingredients, so you can whip these up in minutes.
- Prep: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Slice the Rolls: Cut the rolls in half to have a top and bottom piece. Place the bottom half in a baking dish.
- Make Chicken Mix: Add the shredded chicken, buffalo sauce, ranch dressing, green onions, carrots, and celery to a large bowl. Stir to combine, then spread evenly over the buns in the baking dish.
- Add: Top with the shredded white cheddar cheese, then place on the top half of the buns.
- Brush: Add the butter to a small microwavable bowl. Heat until melted, then mix in the onion flakes and garlic powder. Brush the butter mixture over the buns using a basting brush.
- Bake: Cover the baking dish with foil, then bake it for 15 minutes. Then, remove the foil and bake for another 5 minutes, or until the buffalo chicken sliders are hot. Make sure the cheese is melted, and the tops of the buns are golden.
- Add Garnish: Garnish with blue cheese crumbles and additional green onion if desired. Then, cut into individual sliders and serve immediately.
Buffalo Slider Variations
You can take these Buffalo Chicken Sliders to the next level with all sorts of variations! Here are a few ideas to get you started.
- Homemade Rolls and Sauce: Take these sliders to the next level by making homemade Hawaiian sweet rolls. You can even try making your own buffalo sauce and ranch dressing!
- Dip: Buffalo flavor and blue cheese go amazingly well together. Try using blue cheese dressing instead of ranch.
- Cheese: Swap the white cheddar for mozzarella, cheddar, jack, or any other melty cheese.
- Coleslaw: Swap out the carrots and celery for 1 cup of coleslaw mix if you prefer.
Prep Ahead of Time
Because the buns will go soggy, I recommend enjoying these buffalo chicken sliders right away. To prep the sliders ahead of time, you can get all the ingredients ready to go. Once you have the ingredients prepped then assembling these buffalo chicken sliders is a breeze!
- Slice the buns in half.
- Mix the chicken with the buffalo sauce and ranch.
- Shred the cheese.
- Melt and prepare the butter mixture.
What to Serve with Sliders
If you’re having these for dinner, serve them with the rest of the bagged coleslaw that you’ll have leftover after making this recipe. It’ll make dinner a breeze! But if you’re serving these as part of a game-day feast, try these other fun appetizer recipes.
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Buffalo Chicken Sliders
Ingredients
- 1 package Hawaiian sweet rolls, 12 rolls
- 3 cups boneless skinless chicken breasts, cooked and shredded
- ½ cup Frank's Buffalo Sauce
- ½ cup ranch dressing
- 2 stalks green onion, diced
- 1 large carrot, shredded
- 1 stalk celery, diced
- 1 cup white cheddar cheese, shredded
- 3 tablespoons salted butter
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon dried onion flakes
- blue cheese crumbles, for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Cut the rolls in half so you have a top and bottom piece. Place the bottom half in a baking dish.
- Add the shredded chicken, buffalo sauce, ranch dressing, green onions, carrots, and celery to a large bowl. Stir to combine then spread evenly over the buns in the baking dish.
- Top with the shredded white cheddar cheese then place on the top half of the buns.
- Add the butter to a small microwavable bowl. Heat until melted then mix in the onion flakes and garlic powder. Brush the butter mixture over the buns using a basting brush.
- Cover the baking dish with foil then bake for 15 minutes. Remove the foil and bake for another 5 minutes, or until the sliders are hot, the cheese is melted, and the tops of the buns are golden.
- Garnish with blue cheese crumbles and additional green onion if desired. Cut into individual sliders and serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hi I was wondering if you could post your old recipe for the buffalo chicken sliders? I went to make it and I saw the recipe has changed on your! It would be great to have access to the old and new recipes. I liked how simple the old recipe was for a quick game day meal. It was a go to in our house! Thanks! 😀
Am I supposed to put dressing on the Cole slaw where it says mix
I have two chicken breast I need to cook. Do you think I could cook them in the crockpot with the Buffalo sauce, ranch dressing( and hot sauce and then when cooked through shred them and follow the rest of the recipe with cooking on the buns on the oven? Thanks!
That sounds amazing and yes, that should work! Let me know how they turn out!