Congrats 2025 Grads: Grad party essentials

Slider Bar

More or Less Effort? Your Choice.

This versatile, easy-to-assemble slider bar lets your guests customize their entrée based on their needs AND adapts to your time allotment for food prep. Offer a variety of something-for-everybody meat options, topping choices and bun selections while getting creative with the product arrangement.

1. Prepare Recipe

For this slider bar, the star is: Chicken Sliders served with basil mayonnaise and tomato jam. Not feeling like making the recipes from scratch? Sub ready-made products for all or some of the ingredients. Have dietary requirements or preferences? Add or substitute lifestyle and allergen-friendly products.

 

Big Game Chicken Sliders

These sliders will be the talk of your friends long after the get-together is over: succulent roasted garlic chicken burgers atop pillowy soft focaccia bread. The final wow factor is the basil mayonnaise and homemade tomato jam condiments.

Recipe: Big Game Chicken Sliders
Fresh Garlic Bulb
Fresh Garlic Bulb, 0.2 Pound
$1.40 avg/ea$6.99/lb
L&B Extra Virgin Olive Oil
L&B Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 16.9 Ounce
Deal
$11.99 was $12.99$0.71/oz
Alessi Sea Salt
Alessi Sea Salt, 2.83 Ounce
$3.29$1.16/oz
L&B Cracked Black Pepper
L&B Cracked Black Pepper, 1.7 Ounce
$6.89$4.05/oz

2. Prepare Store-Bought Recipe Substitutions 

Choose from 1-step and no-prep options for the slider spreads.

1-step options include: 1) Roasted garlic: Purée in food processor. 2) 
Tomato jam: Purée roasted tomatoes or bruschetta in food processor. 3) Basil mayonnaise: Use 1 part basil pesto to 1 part mayonnaise.

Spreads Recipe Substitutions

3. Prepare Alternative Meat Options 

Seasoned Ground Meat, Fish & Slider Patties

4. Round Up Topping & Bun Options

Slider Cheeses

Slider Veggie Toppings

Slider Condiments

Slider Bonus Toppings

Slider Buns & Rolls

5. Assemble Slider Bar

Gather some large serving platters or wooden boards. Place dips, spreads, condiments and any other appropriate toppings in small bowls. If needed, have condiment spoons or spreaders on hand. 

Arrange the slider bar ingredients and condiment bowls on or around the platters/boards. Use the image above as a guideline or channel your inner artist and craft your own eye-appealing design.