Easy Tailgate at Home Recipes (Grilled Chicken Sliders)
One of my family’s favorite fall traditions is tailgating at home during football season. If you need simple tailgate food ideas, add these grilled chicken sliders to your menu!
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Tailgating at Home
With kids and life, it’s not always easy to travel to the games, but tailgating at home? I have that down to an art form! It might not be stadium-side, but I find tailgating at home to be a lot easier. No crowds or lines and lots of space to grill and party!
Grilling is one of my favorite parties about tailgating season! We try to grill as much as we can throughout the year, but especially during fall football season. My husband is the grill-master in our house, and he *loves* this grill! It comes highly recommended! As for Blakely? She loves helping me set the table and eating all the yummy foods (and throwing the football around too)!
For our latest tailgate at home, we made Grilled Chicken Sliders as an alternative to the usual burgers and hot dogs. They’re super easy to make, customizable for your favorite flavors, and I have a printable recipe for you below.
Tailgate Tablescape Tips
I served up the grilled chicken sliders on mini wood boards as the perfect starter to our football meal. As you know, I love setting up tablescapes as a way to jazz up the typical dinnertime decor even during football season. You can decorate in your team’s favorite colors to add character to your typical weekend football party.
Orange napkins and florals add a pop of team color to a gray and white buffalo check tablecloth. Layer simple white dinnerware with mini wooden boards. The wooden boards are one of my favorite entertaining must-haves.
They’re great for mini charcuterie boards as well as an alternative to appetizer plates. Serve up sliders or any grilled appetizer on them! Add on mini footballs to the boards as well as scattered throughout your tablescape along with some fall decor like mini pumpkins. Choose florals in your team colors and tuck in golden wheat for a touch of autumn!
Let’s talk about these grilled chicken sliders, shall we? They’re the easiest appetizer to make for tailgating at home! Plus, you can customize them with your favorite marinades and sauces. Or set up a grilled chicken slider bar with all the toppings and let your guests make their own!
We love grilling jalapeno poppers, hot dogs, mini cheeseburgers, shrimp skewers and more for football season, and we’re always switching it up. This week we loved these grilled chicken sliders! They’ve instantly become one of my favorite apps we’ve made!
I topped them with tomato, lettuce, colby jack cheese and bacon – of course! Bacon is always a must at our house. The sliders were easy to pull together and the perfect football food. I skewered them with fun football “touchdown” flags which are not only festive for football but also kept all the toppings in place!
Check out more simple Tailgating Recipes below:
- Buffalo Chicken Dip (made healthier!)
- Perfect Party Appetizer: How to Make Mini Cheeseburgers
- Redneck Caviar
- Sausage Phyllo Cups
Grilled Chicken Sliders
Ingredients
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 16 Slider Buns
- 8 slices colby jack cheese
- 16 slices bacon - cooked
- 4 roma tomatoes - sliced
- 1 bunch lettuce
Instructions
- Butterfly each boneless, skinless chicken breast and cut each half into two to create 4 small pieces of chicken from each chicken breast. Brush each chicken piece with olive oil and sprinkle with salt.
- Heat grill to medium heat and grill chicken pieces for 2 to 3 minutes on each side (or until the thickest part is 165 degrees F).
- Cut cheese slices in half to create two smaller pieces. Top each slider bun with piece of grilled chicken, slice of tomato, cheese, bacon and lettuce.
Thank you for the great inspiration Courtney! I love the parsley in your floral arrangements! And the recipe is yummy too!
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Where did you get the mini boards? Everything is always so cute!