Southern
Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Sandwiches
Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Sandwiches is Southern home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2.5 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 1.5 cups barbecue sauce
- 1 onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 6 hamburger buns
- 4 cups coleslaw mix
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Layer the sliced onion and garlic in the slow cooker and set the chicken thighs on top.
- Stir together 1 cup of the barbecue sauce, the broth, vinegar, smoked paprika, and salt, then pour it over the chicken.
- Cover and cook on low until the chicken shreds easily, about 4 hours.
- Shred the chicken in the pot and stir in the remaining barbecue sauce, cooking uncovered 10 minutes to thicken.
- Toss the coleslaw mix with the mayonnaise and a pinch of salt.
- Pile the barbecue chicken onto the buns and top each with slaw.
Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Sandwiches, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Sandwiches carries gluten and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Blackened Catfish |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Blackened Catfish |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Sandwiches takes about 260 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, bbq sauce, and coleslaw.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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