Simple BBQ Chicken Sliders

Remember the thing about Freezer Experiments?

Total side note. I just looked up Freezer Experiment in my blog so I could link to the time that I explained what a Freezer Experiment is, and I discovered that I explained F.E. AND it was all related to BBQ SAUCE!!! Eight years ago!!! That makes this whole thing even crazier.

So, think Freezer Experiment. I had 3 pounds of chicken in my fridge and didn't know what to do with it. On my way home from work, I decided to make BBQ Chicken Sliders so I stopped at the store for BBQ sauce and rolls. I go to the BBQ section and then decide I could certainly make it at home, I didn't need to buy it. I picked up the rolls and headed home. I started cooking the chicken and decided to wing it with the sauce. "I think it has ketchup, plus brown sugar or something, maybe garlic?" I start dumping stuff into the pot. Mixing, heating it up, go to the other pan and turn over the chicken, come back to the sauce and stir some more. It tastes like ketchup. Maybe if I add... still ketchup... call in the BBQ expert... still tastes like ketchup, also it's too watery. Basically it's ketchup soup. Back to the store. Good thing we only live a mile away.

It could have been a disaster. Instead, it was a bunch of ketchup soup down the drain, and some really great chicken sandwiches.

Here we go.

Simple BBQ Chicken Sliders

Ingredients
3 lbs chicken breast, butterflied
2 bottles BBQ sauce
whatever seasonings you like (garlic, garlic salt, seasoned salt, pepper)

Instructions
1. Add a little olive oil into a skillet and cook the chicken on a low temperature, don't let it brown, add some seasonings if you'd like.
2. While chicken is cooking (this takes forever because you can't fit 3 lbs of chicken in  your skillet all at the same time), DON'T use the Freezer Experiment Method, just use the Premade Storebought BBQ Sauce, put the sauce into a pot and start warming it up.
3. When chicken is done cooking, recruit any helpers you can to shred the chicken with forks. Or get some good music going and do it yourself, this takes forever.
4. Mix the chicken into the sauce, heat everything up, slice the rolls in half and go at it. Deliciousness!
5. Put half of the BBQ chicken into a freezer storage bag and freeze it, that's dinner for next time. Try not to eat all of the remaining chicken today.

Why we love it
Cause once we got past the "homemade sauce tastes like ketchup soup", there's pretty much no way to mess it up. And even though it took forever, it was worth it because half of it is in our freezer waiting for us to enjoy it without having to actually cook.

    

(no pics today because we were too busy eating it to pause for pics!)