I promise, this is the last of the grilled chicken bonus recipe posts! When we grilled 25 chicken halves for 25 people, SURPRISE! we had leftovers!! Lots of leftovers! I sent a few halves home with our starving, college student nephew, Catch. We ate a few. I shredded the rest and froze it. If that wasn’t a fun couple of hours! Luckily I had the new Blake Shelton CD and Daughter #4 to keep me company!
Since everyone in our family likes buffalo chicken flavor (except JR and Daughter#1, but she wasn’t here. I left some shredded chicken plain for JR, heated it and added BBQ sauce), I tried to find a shredded buffalo chicken sandwich recipe, but didn’t have much luck. They were all patties or grilled breasts, so I shot from the hip and it turned out ok. It was almost too spicy, so I reduced the amount of hot sauce in this version of the recipe. The blue cheese sauce was yummy and cooled the spiciness some. Sales Guy put some of the chicken mixture over tortilla chips, added BBQ sauce and shredded cheese and liked it that way too. As experiments with leftovers go, I’d say this one was a success!
Shredded Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches
Print recipeIngredients
- 4 cups Shredded Chicken (pre-cooked)
- 1 & 1/2 cup Chicken Broth
- 1/4 cup Frank's Hot Sauce
- 1/4 cup Butter
- 2 tablespoons Honey
- 2 tablespoons Vinegar
- 8 Buns
- 8 medium slices Pepper Jack cheese (or cheese of your choice)
Blue Cheese Sauce
- 1 cup Sour Cream
- 1/4 cup Mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon Lemon Juice
- 1/2 cup Blue Cheese (crumbled)
- 1/4 cup Celery (minced)
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Black Pepper
Directions
| Blue Cheese Sauce | |
| Step 1 | |
| Mix sauce ingredients together and refrigerate to give ingredients time to blend. | |
| Step 2 | |
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Bring broth, hot sauce, butter, honey & vinegar, to boil in large sauce pan. Add shredded chicken and simmer until liquid reduces (approximately 15 minutes). |  |
| Step 3 | |
| To assemble sandwiches: Use tongs to place meat mixture on bottom bun (if you use a spoon, you will get too much of the juice along with the chicken). Top with cheese and microwave or broil until cheese melts. Spread top bun with blue cheese spread. Serve. | |
Just in case you’re keep track, Daughter #2 doesn’t care for buffalo flavor either! However SIL #2 LOVES the stuff and I am no longer disappointed when he adds it to everything!
We’ll stick to BBQ sauce for the three of you then!