Meal time just got easier! Chicken breast slow cooks to perfection with buffalo sauce and honey. Topped with a flavorful-packed pickle slaw, these sliders are sure to be a crowd-pleaser. With just a few simple steps, these Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Sliders with Pickle Slaw come together in no time. Perfect for sharing with friends and family as part of your game-day spread, or a fun new recipe to add to your weekly meal plan rotation–you won’t be sorry you made these!
Made in the slow cooker
The slow cooker does all of the heavy lifting in this recipe. The chicken breast cooks in the slow cooker with the hot sauce and honey for four hours on high or eight hours on low. There’s no need for pre-cooking or pan-searing; it’s just easy. All you have to worry about is combining your slaw ingredients, shredding the chicken, and assembling the sliders.
Slow cooker recipes are great for when you are in a pinch. Especially during busy weeks, there’s nothing easier than throwing everything in the slow cooker and letting it do its thing. I will admit, slow cooker recipes can be tricky sometimes. As someone who is picky about taste and texture of meals, I understand why some people are skeptical to turn to their slow cooker to make a delicious meal. Sometimes the results are just mushy and sloppy.
This recipe is a home run. As I’ve worked with the slow cooker to make sandwich or taco-type recipes in my Slow Cooker French Dip Sandwiches, Slow Cooker Pulled BBQ Chicken and Slow Cooker Shredded Beef, I’ve developed a good feel for what works and what doesn’t. The key to making a great recipe in the slow cooker is for the meat to be shredded and tender. In this case, the chicken comes out tender and juicy–just what we’re looking for.
What you’ll need to make Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Sliders with Pickle Slaw
- Chicken breast
- Buffalo sauce
- I used Frank’s RedHot linked here
- Honey
- Slider Rolls
- Slaw mix
- shredded cabbage and carrot blend
- Plain non fat Greek yogurt
- This serves as the creamy element for the pickle slaw, and I promise you will have no idea that the slaw is made with a yogurt base. It just serves as a blank slate for the pickle slaw to built upon; the pickle juice and chopped pickles add all of the flavor here.
- Of course, if you are not a fan of yogurt and are worried about using it, you can use a light mayo instead. But try the yogurt, I promise!
- Dill pickle juice
- Dill pickles
- Scallions
- Kosher salt & pepper
How to make Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Sliders with Pickle Slaw
Start by placing 2 lbs of raw chicken breast in the slow cooker. Combine the hot sauce and honey. Pour the hot sauce and honey mixture over the chicken. Cook on low for 8 hours or on high for 4 hours. For the slaw, combine the yogurt, pickle juice, and pickles. Add the slaw mix and toss to coat. Taste for seasoning. Once the chicken is cooked (8 hours on low/ 4 hours on high) shred using two forks. Toss the shredded chicken in the cooking liquid.
Now, it’s time to assemble! Cut the slider buns in half and top with the cooked chicken and slaw.
Each slider should have about 1/4 cup of chicken and 1/4 cup of slaw. You can serve the sliders with the cooking liquid for dipping–yum!
How to serve Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Sliders with Pickle Slaw
What’s great about this recipe is that it’s so versatile. You can prep the buffalo chicken and pickle slaw at the beginning of the week and assemble the sliders as needed for a quick and delicious lunch. If you’re entertaining, these are the perfect healthy option to add to your spread.
Some crowd-pleasing appetizers to go along with these sliders could be chips & my Easiest Mango Salsa, Air Fried Coconut Shrimp, Asian Glazed Turkey Meatballs, or my Sour Cream and Onion Chicken Tenders.

Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Sliders with Pickle Slaw
Equipment
- slow cooker or crockpot
Ingredients
For the Buffalo Chicken
- 2 lbs chicken breast, raw
- 1 cup buffalo sauce, used: Frank's RedHot
- 2 tbsp honey
- 12 slider buns, used: King's Hawaiian
For the Slaw
- 10 oz coleslaw mix, shredded cabbage and carrot blend
- 1/2 cup plain non fat Greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup pickle juice, used: Claussen Kosher Dill Pickle
- 1/4 cup chopped dill pickles, used: Claussen Kosher Dill Pickle
- 2 scallions, chopped
- 1/4 tsp kosher salt
- fresh cracked pepper
Instructions
- Place the raw chicken in the crockpot.
- Combine the hot sauce and honey, pour over the chicken.
- Cook on LOW for 8 hours or HIGH for 4 hours
- For the slaw, combine the yogurt, pickle juice, kosher salt, fresh cracked pepper, and pickles. Chop the scallions.
- Add the slaw mix and chopped scallions and toss to coat, taste for seasoning.
- Once the chicken is cooked, shred using two forks and toss in the cooking liquid.
- Cut the slider buns in half and top with the cooked chicken and the slaw.
- Each slider should have approximately 1/4 cup chicken and 1/4 cup slaw.
- Serve with the extra reserved cooking liquid for dipping, and with ranch or bleu cheese dressing, if desired.
Weight Watchers
Notes
- 1/4 cup of chicken & 1/4 cup of coleslaw per slider
- 2 sliders per serving, serves 6
Nutrition
Try one of my other Buffalo Chicken recipes!
- Buffalo Ranch Chicken Meatballs
- Blazing Buffalo Chicken Tenders
- Air Fried Skinny Buffalo Chicken Potato Skins
- Lighter Buffalo Chicken and Rice Skillet
- One Pot Skinny Buffalo Chicken Pasta
Delicious and super simple! All loved and now need to double it since teenage sons have larger appetite!
Thanks Steph for another delicious, healthy and easy meal. My husband and I don’t eat “the heat” so I substituted our favorite barbecue sauce for the buffalo. Our vegetarian son finished the leftover pickle slaw with the hot sauce added. . What a great idea to slice and fill the rolls all at once. I’ve been filling sliders individually for years and I’ve never made pickle slaw before.
This was so simple to make, and you would never even know it! So good!!
Excellent
I just made these. They are so good! Thank you
So so good!
I usually love your recipes but I’m sorry this was inedible. We literally threw it out. The chicken was beyond spicy-like ridiculously spicy. And the slaw tasted like absolutely nothing. No taste at all to it. Following the directions of adding slaw and chicken to the rolls, the rolls were soggy and gross. And all we tasted was overly spicy chicken.
Delicious. This is great for a party!
Another home run for my gang – since I cannot handle the heat, before shredding the chicken, I took out my portion and shredded it separately. Worked out perfectly because it gave me just a bit of flavor. Guys gobbled up everything and this passed the “Should I make it again” question.
This was SO. GOOD. This is easily going to become a week night staple in our home. Everyone loved it and it is so easy to throw together before work. Excellent!
What would the nutritional values be without the slaw?