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Looking for a quick and nutritious dinner that your entire family will adore? Served with Alexia Foods Smart Classics Roasted Crinkle Cut Fries with Sea Salt, these kid-friendly Cheesy & Easy Barbecue Chicken Sliders are impossible to resist. The fast weeknight dinner will become a permanent fixture on your weekly menu!
Guys, I’m so excited about today’s post for a few different reasons!
First of all, I love, love, love this tasty and simple meal idea that I know your family will also enjoy. It’s such a good feeling when I have a recipe idea in my head and it actually turns out even better than I expected. Since I have my fair share of recipe flops, this is an especially exciting occasion!
Second, I have found a new side dish that everyone in my house loves (and it couldn’t be easier to prepare).
And third, I have included an excessive number of photos of my kids today…which always makes me smile. Shall we get right to it?
While these main dish Cheesy & Easy Barbecue Chicken Sliders are quite delicious, the real star of today’s show is our family’s new favorite side item: Alexia Smart Classics Roasted Crinkle Cut Fries with Sea Salt. {Psst – we also enjoy the House Cut Fries with Sea Salt – you can’t lose either way!}
My family can now enjoy one of their favorite guilty pleasures at home, and I don’t feel badly about it at all! These Smart Classics Crinkle Cut Fries start with fresh, U.S. grown Yukon select potatoes and all-natural sea salt…some of nature’s most delicious ingredients! Simply made food is always the best – especially when it is 98% fat free and 100 calories per serving.
Basically, Alexia all-natural sides answer every busy mom’s weeknight prayers. These creatively crafted choices such as Onion Rings with Panko Breading and Sea Salt, French Herb Green Beans, and Parmesan Peas are all fast, easy, and packed with delicious farm flavor!
Alexia Foods offers frozen potatoes, appetizers, breads and side dishes with minimal, but distinctive, real ingredients and exceptional taste. Alexia frozen sides are a delicious addition to a balanced meal with that little something extra and can be ready in 25 minutes—or less. Sign up for Alexia’s Club 350 newsletter for more great meal inspiration!
You know who is the Number 1 Fan of the Alexia fries? This guy:
In fact, he loves them so much that he followed me around while I was snapping photos…just waiting for a hand-out. Even when I went outside to grab some natural light for a picture, this little tyke was right there with me {and of course, I couldn’t stop taking photos of him}!
He just ate, and ate, and ate…
And the Number 2 and Number 3 Fans of these Alexia Smart Classics fries? These two!
But since I probably shouldn’t feed my kids ONLY fries for dinner, I also created these easy and nutritious sliders to pair with them. Slightly sweet from the barbecue sauce, the sandwiches are the perfect complement to the salty fries. Throw some broccoli or other microwaveable steamed veggies alongside and you have a well-rounded weeknight dinner that’s ready in a matter of minutes!
Now that’s something to smile about!
Delicious Cheesy and Easy Barbecue Chicken Sliders
Ingredients
- 1 lb. ground chicken
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ½ small sweet onion diced
- ½ red bell pepper diced
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 cup chicken broth
- ¾ cup milk
- ½ cup barbecue sauce
- ½ cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 8 whole wheat slider sandwich rolls
- 8 slices American cheese
For serving:
- 1 32 ounce bag Alexia 98% Fat Free Smart Classics Roasted Straight Cut Fries with Sea Salt
- Broccoli or other favorite vegetable steamed in the microwave according to package instructions
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. As soon as the oven is heated, bake Alexia French fries according to package instructions.
- Meanwhile, heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken to skillet, season with salt and pepper to taste, and cook until no longer pink. Remove chicken from the skillet and set aside.
- Reduce the heat to medium. Melt butter in skillet and add onion and bell pepper. Saute until vegetables are tender, approximately 3-4 minutes. Add garlic to skillet and sauté for one more minute.
- Add flour to skillet, whisk, and cook for one minute.
- Pour chicken broth and milk slowly into the skillet. Whisk constantly to prevent lumps. Add barbecue sauce and increase heat so that the liquid comes to a bubble.
- Once the liquid bubbles, turn the heat back down to medium and allow the mixture to simmer until it thickens, approximately 3-4 minutes.
- Remove skillet from heat and stir in the cheese and the cooked chicken until all ingredients are combined.
- Prepare the sliders by placing open sandwich rolls onto a baking sheet that has been lined with aluminum foil (for easy clean-up). Spoon chicken mixture onto each bun and top each sandwich with a slice of American cheese.
- When your French fries have about 5 minutes remaining on their cooking time, place sandwiches into the oven with the fries. Bake sandwiches just until cheese melts, rolls are toasted, and the meat is heated through (approximately 5 minutes).
- While sandwiches and French fries are baking, microwave broccoli or other vegetable according to package instructions.
- Serve French fries with sliders and veggies!
Question: How do you make weeknights easy with Alexia all-natural side dishes?
Alexia Foods offers frozen potatoes, appetizers, breads and side dishes with minimal, but distinctive, real ingredients that serve-up exceptional taste. Alexia frozen sides are a delicious addition to a balanced meal with that little something extra and can be ready in 25 minutes—or less. Sign up for Alexia’s Club 350 newsletter for more great meal inspiration!
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This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Alexia . The opinions and text are all mine.
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