Hot Chicken Salad Sliders
Hot Chicken Salad Slider Rolls – Delicious hot chicken salad stuffed in Hawaiian rolls (or your fave slider buns) and brushed with a sweet and savory glaze of butter, Dijon, honey and garlic and then baked to perfection. FAST, easy and party perfect!
Best Ever Hot Chicken Salad Sliders
If you’re looking for the ultimate comfort food recipe for parties, tailgates, game nights, holiday parties, after-school snacks or a quick weeknight meal, these sliders are your answer!
My family’s favorite hot chicken salad recipe (people beg my mother for this recipe time and time again) baked into sweet Hawaiian rolls brushed with a sweet and savory glaze that is absolutely delicious.
The glaze has so much flavor from butter, dijon mustard, honey, and garlic. It is dreamy, let me tell you. It is brushed over the top of the sliders and baked so each slider is slightly crispy on top, soft on the inside, and loaded with tasty hot chicken salad.
The actual “hot chicken salad” is full of chicken (use rotisserie chicken to make things easy), celery, almonds, diced water chestnuts, and lots of cheddar cheese. It’s absolutely fantastic baked inside these slider rolls. I even love it cold!
What’s in the Hot Chicken Salad Sliders?
For these hot chicken salad rolls, you will need the following:
- Hot Chicken Salad (recipe in the recipe card below)
- Hawaiian sweet rolls
- Salted Butter
- Dijon Mustard
- Honey
- Garlic Powder
- Dried Parsley
Can you use any kind of slider roll?
Yes, you can! I also love the Ukrop’s yeast rolls. Any soft slider roll or slider buns will work just fine!
How to Make Hot Chicken Salad Sliders
Find the full printable recipe in the recipe card below, but here’s a quick glance at how these delicious chicken salad sliders come together.
- Prepare your chicken salad in a large mixing bowl. You can refrigerate at this point if you’re making in advance.
- Using a serrated knife, carefully slice open Hawaiian rolls (or your slider roll of choice) in half and fill each with chicken salad.
- Top your slider buns and place each filled roll inside a baking dish or casserole dish.
- Whisk together your glaze and brush on top of the rolls. Sprinkle a little extra cheddar cheese on top if you like.
- Bake the prepared rolls in a preheated oven until cheese is melted and chicken salad is hot.
Find the full printable recipe at the end of the post!
Can I make this recipe in advance?
YES, it’s one of the reasons I love it so much. Now, you want to wait and brush on the glaze until you’re ready to bake so your rolls won’t get soggy. But you can stuff your slider rolls with the chicken salad and refrigerate until ready.
More Snacks to Serve with Hot Chicken Salad Sliders:
- Buffalo Chicken Wonton Cups
- Air Fryer Jalapeño Poppers
- The BEST garlic dip!
- Ranch Cheese Ball (MUST-try)
- Muffuletta Dip (baked and delish)
Give these hot chicken sliders a try! They are one of the BEST appetizers and you’ll have guests begging for this easy recipe!
Hot Chicken Salad Sliders
Ingredients
- 12 Hawaiian sweet rolls
Hot Chicken Salad
- 4 cups cooked chicken (cubed or shredded – eg. rotisserie chicken)
- 3 cups chopped celery
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 3 tbsp chopped onion
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
- 2 8-ounce cans diced water chestnuts (drained)
- 3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Glaze
- 4 tbsp butter (melted (I use salted))
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1/8 tsp garlic powder
- 1 T dried parsley
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine chicken with celery, almonds, chopped onion, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, salt, black pepper, mayonnaise, water chestnuts, and cheddar cheese. Stir to combine the chicken mixture well.
- Use a large serrated knife to carefully slice open the 12-pack of Hawaiian sweet rolls. Place the bottoms in a baking dish or casserole dish. I found an 11-inch by -inch dish to work well. Fill each roll with a heaping scoop of the chicken salad.
- Add the tops of the slider rolls back on top.
- Whisk together the glaze in a small mixing bowl. Brush the glaze over the tops of the rolls. Pour on any extra glaze. Sprinkle the tops with any leftover cheddar cheese (optional).
- Bake, covered with aluminum foil, for 12 minutes. Remove the foil from the baking dish, return the sliders to the oven and bake, uncovered, for an additional 10 minutes.
My friends liked this very much. This chicken salad recipe is enough for two packages of slider rolls. I froze half the salad mixture and used it later for quesadillas.
It’s good without the water chestnuts. Diced water chestnuts from the can seem too large for chicken salad so perhaps the author meant to chop them smaller?