BBQ Pulled Pork Sliders
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These savory BBQ pulled pork sliders are the best game day food! Make them for an irresistible Super Bowl party snack.
Looking for a savory pull apart sliders recipe you can make for this year’s Super Bowl party? You’ll want to try these BBQ pulled pork sliders, an easy and flavorful recipe that will satisfy the hungry crowd at your next game day party.
These sliders are seriously delicious. Any sliders on Hawaiian rolls are pretty much irresistible – but when you load them up with our slow cooker pulled pork, caramelized onions, creamy garlic aioli, and gooey cheddar cheese, they’re simply impossible to stop eating! With just a little bit of prep work in the days leading up to the big game, you can make a big batch of these savory sliders for all to enjoy.
What This Recipe Entails
BBQ pulled pork, Hawaiian rolls, caramelized onions, garlic aioli, and lots of cheddar cheese. What says game day better than sliders?
- Prep time: 50 minutes
- Cook time: 10 minutes
The caramelized onions are the reason for a long prep time, so if you make them ahead of time, this recipe comes together in about 15 minutes.
BBQ Pulled Pork Slider Ingredients
These sweet and savory game day sliders are made with a saucy barbecue pulled pork and caramelized onion mixture, served on toasted Hawaiian rolls with melted cheddar cheese and garlic aioli. Mmm.
Here’s everything you’ll need to make our BBQ pulled pork sliders recipe:
- King’s Hawaiian Rolls – King’s Hawaiian Rolls are the gold standard for a reason.
- Sliced cheddar cheese – You can use any kind of cheddar cheese you like on these sliders – mild, sharp, extra sharp, you name it. All types of cheddar taste delicious with pulled pork.
- Caramelized onions – Make some fresh caramelized onions for these sliders – that way, all the butter and oil and flavors left in the pan after caramelizing the onions get infused into the pulled pork when you heat it up.
- Pulled pork – Make pulled pork in the slow cooker ahead of time for easy re-heating.
- Barbecue sauce – Sweet Baby Ray’s is our go-to store bought BBQ sauce.
- Garlic aioli – We highly recommend Stonewall Kitchen’s roasted garlic aioli.
How To Make BBQ Pulled Pork Sliders On Hawaiian Rolls
Once you have your ingredients, including the prepared pulled pork, you can easily make these game day sliders in just a few steps. Here’s how:
- Make caramelized onions – Caramelize the onions in a large frying pan until they’re a deep brown (check out our tips on how to caramelize onions here if you’re new to this!).
- Prep the rolls – Slice the Hawaiian rolls in half horizontally, leaving the rolls attached to one another. Separate the top half from the bottom half, placing both halves cut side up on a large baking sheet.
- Place the cheese – Lay the cheese slices over the top half of the rolls in an even layer. You should be able to use about 4 standard slices to cover 12 Hawaiian rolls.
- Bake the rolls – Bake until they’re lightly toasted and the cheese is melty.
- Heat up the pulled pork – Add the pulled pork in with the onions and heat until warmed through. Then, remove from heat and stir in the barbecue sauce.
- Assemble – Spread a thin layer of garlic aioli over the bottom half of the toasted rolls. Top with the pulled pork and onion mixture, then close the sliders and serve hot.
If you’re using premade caramelized onions from the fridge, you’ll want to reheat them in a frying pan over medium-low heat until they’re warm and smell sweet. This will only take a few minutes, so you can easily put together these game day sliders in about 15 minutes by prepping the onions a few days earlier. This way you can also heat the onions and pork up together at the same time.
Serving Suggestions
What goes well with BBQ pulled pork sliders on game day? The answer is simple: all the savory snacks you’re already planning on serving for the big game!
But if you’re looking for ideas, here are just a few of our many game day recipes to serve with your BBQ sliders:
- Buffalo chicken dip bites
- Spinach artichoke dip phyllo cups
- 3 ingredient onion rings
- Beer cheese nachos
- Bacon cheese loaded tater tots
You can also serve them as part of a slider spread, offering a variety of sliders for your game day guests to choose from! Try our Italian meatball sliders, buffalo chicken sliders, and vegetarian black bean southwest sliders.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
These savory barbecue pulled pork sliders are the perfect shareable appetizer for your game day party! They’re so easy to make for a crowd with a little bit of prep work, and the flavor is to die for. Serve them with other football Sunday snacks like wings, buffalo chicken dip, and a veggie platter for a game day spread worthy of its own touchdown dance.
Try our game day BBQ pulled pork sliders recipe for Super Bowl Sunday and don’t forget to rate, comment, and share below if you love it!
FAQs
This all depends on how many other snacks you’re planning to serve with the sliders. If the sliders are going to be served as a meal, plan on 3 to 5 sliders per person, plus small sides like french fries or tater tots. But if you’re going to serve plenty of other game day appetizers, you can safely plan for about 2 sliders per person.
One pound of pulled pork will make 24 sliders with this recipe.
The amount of pulled pork you’ll get from a pork shoulder depends on how much fat is on the cut of pork you chose, and if it’s on the bone or boneless. We typically buy a 5 pound boneless pork shoulder and get about 3.5 to 4 pounds of pulled pork out of it.
Some quick math to help you out: If you want to make enough sliders for 20 people, planning on about 2 sliders per person, you’ll need 48 slider rolls and 2 pounds of pulled pork, so a 3.5 to 4 pound boneless pork shoulder should do.
Love this recipe? You may enjoy these recipes, too:
- Teriyaki Pulled Pork Pull Apart Sliders
- Italian Meatball Sliders
- Buffalo Chicken Sliders
- Chicken Parmesan Sliders
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BBQ Pulled Pork Sliders
Ingredients
- 1 cup caramelized onions
- 12 rolls King's Hawaiian Rolls
- 4 slices cheddar cheese
- ½ pound pulled pork
- ¼ cup barbecue sauce
- 2 tablespoons garlic aioli
Instructions
- First, caramelize the onions in a large frying pan. Heat the oil and butter over medium-low heat until melted, then add the sliced onion to the pan and stir to coat. Cook until the onions become translucent, stirring occasionally, about 5 to 7 minutes. Then, add the salt and sugar to help start the caramelization process.Once the onions begin to look dry, add about a quarter cup of water to the pan. Cook until the water has evaporated and the onions are dry again, stirring occasionally but not too frequently. Continue this process, cooking the onions over medium-low heat and adding some water to the pan whenever they look like they might start burning, until the onions are brown and smell sweet – this will take about 30 to 45 minutes.
- When the onions are almost done cooking, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Slice the Hawaiian rolls in half horizontally, so they stay attached but the tops are separated from the bottoms. Place both halves cut side up on a large baking sheet.
- Lay the cheese over the top half of the rolls in a single layer. Bake until the cheese is melted and the rolls are lightly toasted, about 3 to 5 minutes.
- When the onions are done cooking, add the pulled pork to the frying pan (leave the onions in the pan!). Cook over medium-low heat until the pork is warmed through and lightly crisped, about 5 minutes. Then, remove from heat and stir in the barbecue sauce.
- Next, spread the garlic aioli over the bottom half of the toasted rolls. Top with the pulled pork and onion mixture, then close the sliders and serve hot.
Notes
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