BBQ Chicken Sliders with Fried Green Tomatoes

BBQ Chicken Sliders with Fried Green Tomatoes are the best sliders of the summer – with smoky barbecue sauce and a crispy fried green tomato, they check every box from flavor to texture.

Want a chicken slider recipe that combines the best of both Southern food worlds?

I have one for you.

BBQ Chicken Sliders with Fried Green Tomatoes.

They’re chicken sliders topped with fried green tomatoes and a sweet/smokey homemade barbecue sauce on buttered yeast rolls.

These might just be a poster child for gluttony.

It’s so hard to eat just one or two! The barbecue sauce and the crispy fried green tomatoes go so well together.

I used yeast rolls instead of slider buns, and you will be missing out if you go with regular slider rolls. There’s something about the yeast rolls with these flavors that works so perfectly.

Using fried green tomatoes literally is a game changer when it comes to these. It gives these sliders a whole new element of taste and texture that I just love.

By all means, if you would rather use store bought barbecue sauce instead of making it, you’ll still get a fantastic outcome. There are several very good barbecue sauces out there.

The chicken, the crispiness of the fried tomato, the sauce, OMG – it’s such deliciousness.

I had to add more hot sauce to mine, by the way.  I’m all about the condiments, and when a sauce/dip/condiment is good, I want to put it on everything.

Trust me on the yeast rolls – with these I wholeheartedly believe no other bread will do.

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Shredded Chicken Sliders with Fried Green Tomatoes and Brown Sugar BBQ Sauce

Yield: 6 sliders

Shredded chicken in a homemade barbecue sauce with fried green tomatoes on yeast slider rolls are perfect for picnics, celebrating a holiday, or Sunday dinner with the family. Make a double batch because they disappear fast!

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Ingredients

For the Sliders

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• 1 batch Barbecue Sauce, recipe below
• 3 cups chicken, cooked (or grilled - better option), and shredded
• 3 cups canola oil
• 2-3 green tomatoes, sliced
• 1 cup corn meal
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tbsp sea salt
• 1 tbsp coarse black pepper
• 1 tsp cayenne
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 6 yeast rolls, or slider buns
• ¼ cup salted butter, melted

Barbecue Sauce:

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• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1/4 white onion, diced teeny tiny
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 can tomato paste
• 3/4 cup ketchup
• 1/2 cup white vinegar
• 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1/4 cup beef broth
• 1 tbsp hot sauce
• 1 1/2 tbsp seasoned salt
• 1 tbsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp coarse black pepper

Instructions

1. Bring the olive oil to medium-high heat in a sauce pan and add onion, sprinkle with sea salt.
2. When onion is translucent reduce heat to medium and add remaining ingredients, stir to combine.
3. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and cover. Simmer for 30 minutes, until it starts to thicken, remove from heat.
4. While sauce is simmering, make fried green tomatoes.
5. Slice green tomatoes about 1/4" slices. Season green tomato slices with sea salt and black pepper on both sides.
6. Separate flour and eggs in two shallow bowls, then combine cornmeal, salt, pepper and cayenne to a third bowl.
7. Dip each tomato slice into flour to coat on both sides.
8. Then dip floured tomato slices in eggs to coat on both sides.
9. Dip tomatoes into crumb mixture and on baking sheet.
10. Repeat the dredging process, starting with the flour, until all slices are coated.
11. Heat oil in a frying pan over medium high heat to 375°F. Add tomato slices to hot oil, and fry on each side until golden brown. Drain on a paper towel lined platter.
12. Split yeast rolls and brush with butter.
13. Combine chicken and BBQ sauce.
14. Add BBQ chicken to bottom half of yeast roll, top with fried green tomato and remaining roll half.
15. Serve.

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