I have a serious love of apple season. We go apple picking almost every year and I always try to introduce apples to savory dishes rather than just using them for baking. Like my creamy apple cider chicken skillet and sauerkraut and sausages with apples. These applesauce pulled chicken sandwiches are another fantastic savory recipe that highlights my favorite flavor of this season! And I love that they are made in the slow cooker, which is a huge help on busy nights!
Freaky Friday Fall Edition
I’m happy to be participating in Freaky Friday again with some of my blogging friends! For anyone new here, it’s where we are secretly assigned someone else’s blog, then we recreate one of their recipes to share on our own blogs. Check out all of my past Freaky Friday recipes! These pulled chicken sandwiches come from one of my favorite blogging friends, Erin, from the blog The Speckled Palate. I know Erin in real life and she is the loveliest, coolest person you can imagine. And her recipes are amazing! I seriously drool over her Sauerkraut Burgers with oven fried pickles and sweet sriracha sauce, her bourbon maple bacon cupcakes, and her praline pumpkin upside down cake (which I almost made for this post)! Also, can I just say how much I love her mocktails & non-alcoholic drinks category? Seriously, she is the queen of entertaining and has so many great appetizers and entertaining tips for busy families. I knew as soon as I saw them that I just had to make Erin’s shredded applesauce chicken sliders. I’ve been in a slow cooker rut recently and loved the sound of chicken cooked in applesauce then piled on buns with a fantastic homemade slaw! It’s perfect for the fall season and our busy schedule right now! I went a tiny bit rogue and used Erin’s apple cabbage slaw recipe from her apple cider pulled pork instead of the brussels sprouts apple slaw she originally paired with this shredded chicken. They were similar, but I had cabbage that needed to be used up and I also wanted to include the jalapeno in the slaw because I love me some jalapeno! I’m sure she will approve. Also, I went full sandwich-size rather than the slider approach. I fully intended to make sliders, but these pretzel buns were too delicious to resist when I saw them in the store.
What does pulled chicken mean?
Pulled chicken is just a way of describing chicken that has been cooked to the point of being so tender that it easily shreds apart when pulled with fingers or forks. If you are doubling or tripling the recipe for a crowd and have a lot of chicken to pull, you can speed up the process by placing the cooked chicken breasts in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and mixing on low speed for 30 seconds until it shreds apart.
Is chicken easier to shred hot or cold?
If you are pulling your chicken by hand, you might be tempted to wait for it to cool down. But chicken shreds much more easily when it is still hot.
How to Make Slow Cooker Applesauce Pulled Chicken Sandwiches
More Slow Cooker Recipes For Busy Nights
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Take a look at our Fall 2019 Freaky Friday Recipes:
An Affair from the Heart – Instant Pot Vegetable Beef Soup A Grande Life – Easy Beer Cheddar Dip Aunt Bee’s Recipes – Three Cheese Roast Beef Sliders Bowl Me Over – Crock Pot Pumpkin Butter Recipe Healing Tomato – Stuffed Acorn Squash Hostess at Heart – Caramel Apple Pie Snack Mix Lemoine Family Kitchen – White Cheddar Broccoli Stuffed Baked Potatoes Lemon Blossoms – Maple Oven Roasted Carrots Life, Love & Good Food – Pasta Fagioli Soup Recipe Mildly Meandering – Saffron Rice Soulfully Made – Salted Dark Chocolate Orange Cookies Take Two Tapas – Margarita Pizza Pull Apart Bread The Speckled Palate – Halloween Peanut Butter Chocolate White Chocolate Chip Cookies West Via Midwest – Easy Garlic Parmesan Chicken Wings Who Needs a Cape? – Roasted Red Pepper and Artichoke Tapenade
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