BBQ Chicken Sliders

By cmschnettler

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup grape jelly or seedless raspberry jam
• 1/3 cup barbecue sauce
• 2 tablespoons fine dry bread crumbs
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped honey roasted walnuts or almonds
• 1 tablespoon barbecue sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 8 ounces ground chicken
• 1/2 cup shredded Italian cheese blend or Monterey Jack cheese with jalapeno peppers, or crumbled Gorgonzola cheese (2 ounces)
• Lettuce leaves and/or tomato slices (optional)
• 8 dinner rolls or cocktail-size hamburger buns, split

Details

Servings 4

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. In a small bowl whisk together jelly and the 1/3 cup barbecue sauce until smooth; set aside.
Meanwhile, grease a shallow baking pan; set aside. In a medium bowl combine bread crumbs, nuts, the 1 tablespoon barbecue sauce, the poultry seasoning, salt, and pepper. Add ground chicken; mix well. Shape mixture into eight balls. Place balls 2 inches apart in the prepared baking pan. Moisten the bottom of a glass and use the glass to press each ball until about 1/4 inch thick.
Place pan with burgers in oven. Bake fries and burgers for 5 minutes. Stir fries; turn burgers. Bake for 5 minutes more.
Transfer half of the jelly mixture to a small bowl and brush it over burgers. Bake burgers about 2 minutes more or until burgers are done (165 degrees F) and cheese is melted. If desired, place lettuce and/or tomato slices on bottoms of rolls. Add burgers; spoon the remaining jelly mixture over burgers. Replace tops of rolls.