Pulled Chicken Sandwiches – Slow Cooker

Description: Pulled Chicken Sandwiches

365
calories per sandwich

From Redbook

Active
time
14 minutes

Total
time
5 hours 15
minutes

Makes 6 Sandwiches

1 cup
chopped onion

5 Tbsp.
cider vinegar

3 large
garlic cloves, crushed

1 Tbsp.
brown sugar

1/3 cup
whole-grain mustard

1 whole
chicken (4 ½ to 5 lb.), wing tips cut off, skin removed

¼ cup
yellow mustard

2 Tbsp. chopped
fresh flat-leaf parsley

Salt and
pepper

6 hamburger
buns, toasted

Coleslaw
(optional)

1.   
In 6-quart slow-cooker
bowl, combine onion, 4 tablespoons vinegar, garlic, and brown sugar. Spread
whole-grain mustard all over chicken. Place chicken, breast-side down, in
slow-cooker bowl. Cover slow cooker with lid, and cook as manufacturer directs
on low setting 5 to 6 hours, or until chicken is fork-tender. Remove chicken to
cutting board; let stand 5 minutes.

2.   
Pour braising liquid
from slow cooker through fine sieve set over 1-quart measure. Transfer onion
solids from sieve and ½ cup braising liquid to large bowl. Add remaining 1
tablespoon vinegar, yellow mustard, parsley, ½ teaspoon salt, and ½ teaspoon
freshly ground black pepper to onion mixture and whisk together.

3.   
Shred chicken into
large pieces. Add to dressing; toss. Serve on toasted buns with coleslaw, if
desired.

Description: Sandwich

Each
sandwich
without
coleslaw about 41 g protein, 29 g carbohydrate, 9 g total fat (2 g saturated),
2 g fiber, 114 mg cholesterol, 946 mg sodium.