Grilled Beer Chicken Sliders with Burrata and Stout Chipotle Cherry Sauce
These Grilled Beer Chicken Sliders with Burrata and Stout Chipotle Cherry Sauce can be made on a grill, or indoors in a grill pan. Easy and delicious, perfect for game day!
Welcome to the new year.
Welcome to the year that is equal parts a welcomed relief and intensely terrifying. Let’s make a plan, you and I. Let’s agree to one thing: make the small corners of the world we occupy better in hopes to cause a ripple. Let’s express gratitude more often, very often, and even to those we hardly know. Let’s compliment strangers, pay for the order behind us, donate to that charity that we always say we will donate to but always forget. Let’s make a plan to always assume positive intent, especially from those we like the least until we are proven otherwise.
We don’t have much control over, well, pretty much anything. But we DO have control over that. We have control over what we focus on and what we put into the world. The thing I’ve learned with counting blessings is that it tends to multiply them, or at the very least amplify them. The same applies to hardships, so be careful.
Let’s assume positive intent for this year, and hope for the best. We’re in this together, all of us.
Grilled Beer Chicken Sliders with Burrata and Stout Chipotle Cherry Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 lbs chicken thighs boneless skinless
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 12 ounces wheat beer or brown ale, pale lager, pilsner
- 1 teaspoon 3g garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon 3g onion powder
- 1 teaspoon 3g chili powder
- ½ teaspoon 1g smoked paprika
- 1 cup 154g pitted dark sweet cherries (frozen is fine)
- 2 tablespoon 38g minced chipotle in adobo
- 1 tablespoon 13g balsamic vinegar
- 1 cup 240g beer(stout beer works best)
- 1 teaspoon 2g black pepper
- 1 tablespoon 8g cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 8 oz ball burrata cheese
- 12 Hawaiian buns split like slider buns
Instructions
- Add the chicken to a bowl or small baking dish. Sprinkle with salt, then cover with beer. Refrigerate for one to six hours.
- Remove the chicken from the brine, pat dry. Add to a plate or cutting board.
- In a small bowl stir together the garlic powder, onion powder, chili powder, and smoked paprika. Sprinkle over the chicken on both sides. Allow the chicken to sit for ten minutes.
- Spray the grill (or a grill pan) with olive oil or cooking spray, heat to medium high heat. Add the chicken, cooking on both sides until cooked through. Remove from grill, slice.
- Add the cherries, chipotle, balsamic, stout beer, and black pepper to a pan over medium high heat. Simmer, breaking up the cherries and stirring until the cherries have started to break down.
- Remove from heat. Sprinkle with cornstarch, blend with an immersion blender until smooth (this can also be done in a small blender or food processor). Stir in the honey and return to medium heat until slightly thickened (cherry sauce can be made up to three days in advance).
- Fill the Hawaiian buns with chicken. Split the Burrata ball open, putting a few teaspoons of cheese on top of the chicken (the rind is very tasty and can be put on the sliders, if desired. It tastes more like traditional mozzarella), drizzle the cheese with a teaspoon or so of the cherry sauce.
- Serve immediately.
Notes
Comments
Teri Giese January 3, 2017 um 9:35 pm
So agree and adore you for being a positive voice;(and for your recipes,and a great read too)!Reading 3-400,yes,that is 400;blogs per day…Food,fashion,beauty,health.etc.Seems to be a sense that many are holding there breath in fear of a terrible future.Have faced and survived much thus far,and humor,,joy and appreciation for the simple things;has been key.Faith that there is a higher being of some sort helps,and belief in our own strength.Never underestimate human emotional strength.Happy Every Day!!
Jackie January 4, 2017 um 10:00 am
Wow 300 is a LOT of blog reading to do! And I agree, we can be as freaked out as we want about what’s to come, but that has no positive impact and may even make things worse. All we can control is ourselves.
Priyanka January 3, 2017 um 10:43 pm
What amazing pictures! They simply killed me and I wished I could take them out right from the screen! Great recipe!
Pat Spillane January 4, 2017 um 2:32 am
Thanks Jackie
I totally agree with your comment about 'Gratitude' and 'Compliments' – they’re elements of life that seem to have gradually diminished over recent years – it’s people like you, that point it out to people like us, that will make a difference
You’re a star!
Jackie January 4, 2017 um 10:02 am
Thank you so much, that made my day!
Doreen January 4, 2017 um 7:53 am
Thank you for your positivity and for the awesome recipe!
Valentina | The Baking Fairy January 4, 2017 um 9:04 am
I absolutely love your mission statement for 2017! It’s so important, especially when the world seems to be going so crazy, to remember that we do have control over the little things and those can still have a huge impact. Side note, I am obsessed with burrata and these sliders look amazing!
Jackie January 4, 2017 um 10:03 am
I could eat burrata on everything!
Dori Christian January 4, 2017 um 1:33 pm
What a lovely post. Yes, this is the way we need to behave.
I adore your cookbooks and now buy various beers for tasting ad cooking.
May your year be happy and productive.
Jackie January 4, 2017 um 2:14 pm
You too 🙂
Rachael @ Rachael’s Foodie Life January 4, 2017 um 9:46 pm
These slides sounds incredible I cannot wait to make the stout cherry sauce!!
I love your positivity and as someone who has struggled with depression and anxiety in the past having a positive mindset made all the difference for me
Jackie January 4, 2017 um 10:33 pm
I have too. I’ve wrestled depression for a lot of my life. When I was in college I had someone say to me, "Depression is selfish. Resist the urge to focus on yourself, instead focus on how you can help others" Nothing else has helped as much as that.