Dutch Oven Shredded Chicken Sliders

Put your Dutch Oven to work for these wonderfully easy BBQ Chicken Sliders. Classic in flavor with a tangy twist, and popular with all. This is an easy sliders recipe to feed that party crowd. Dutch Oven Pulled Pork is a tasty way to feed that hungry crowd.

Course Main Course Sandwiches

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 1 30

Total Time 1 40

Servings sliders

Calories 213kcal

Author Lea Ann Brown

Ingredients

1 ½ cups ketchup
½ cup barbecue sauce
¼ cup brown sugar
¼ cup pineapple juice
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
3 tablespoons cider vinegar
Tabasco sauce to taste abut 4 shakes for us
1 teaspoon garlic powder
3 pounds Boneless skinless chicken breasts or a combo of boneless thighs and breasts
2 medium onions peeled and cut into fourths
½ teaspoon Kosher Salt
¼ teaspoon Freshly ground black pepper
16 Slider buns

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix sauce ingredients and set aside.
Spray inside of Dutch Oven with cooking spray. Add chicken pieces and quartered onions. Pour sauce over chicken and onions.
Cook chicken for 1 ½ hours. Remove chicken from Dutch Oven and shred with two forks.
Add about a cup of the sauce from the Dutch Oven to the shredded chicken. If there's not too much liquid in the pot, return the meat to the pot and set on warm. Serve on heated or grilled buns with coleslaw or guacamole.

Notes

Pro Tip: Some chicken breasts are injected with a water solution for “plumping” reasons. If you have purchased one of these you will find it swimming in liquid once it’s cooked. Which means the bbq sauce will be much thinner and diluted in flavor. Purchase high quality chicken breasts (recommended) for this recipe. You’ll find the chicken at Whole Foods or reputable quality butcher shops are natural without injected liquids. The end result will be a chicken cooking in natural juices.

Can you place frozen chicken breasts in the Dutch Oven? Absolutely not. Unless you want to risk salmonella poisoning. Only used thawed chicken for any chicken recipe. Why? Frozen chicken will not likely reach the temperature of 165 within the “safe window” of time in the oven. It's just too risky.

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