BBQ Chicken French Breads.
This is what I like to call “eating color.”
I mean there is a good bit of green here. In a few different forms! It completely works.
And I really want to call this bread. But I also want to call it pizza. It’s like faux pizza on French bread. The easiest ever since you don’t have to make your own dough and can just buy a darn loaf of bread at the store and trash it up with lots of great flavor.
It’s the supreme party food. Because I say so! It may be a leeeeeettle high maintenance but it’s worth it. You will see.
It’s also a total rip off of the buffalo chicken French breads I made years ago. It’s the most perfect football food ever and just generally an excellent idea for dinner… or lunch… or anything. And everything.
Especially the nights when you get stuck watching Homeland reruns until midnight and you’re just like… how does Claire Danes DO it? How is she so ridiculously fantastic as an actor? Why does she make me feel like an uncomfortable lunatic? How does she master the ugly cry so well?
Nothing these French breads can’t solve in the wee hours of morning.
The bread is covered with a heavy-handed drizzle of BBQ sauce, cheese, some chicken, bacon and caramelized shallots. It’s baked until crisp and bubbly with cheese then drenched in a blanket of chives, scallions, cilantro annnnd more BBQ sauce. Use your favorite! I used a combo of bone suckin’ sauce (which is a forever staple in this house) and some vanilla bourbon BBQ sauce from my cookbook. The mixture was scary good. I wanted to eat it right off the spoon.
In fact… the entire thing is so scary good that it makes me want to do the ugly cry.
BBQ Chicken French Breads
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 4 shallots, sliced
- 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
- 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into pieces
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 large french baguette, sliced in half
- 1 cup your favorite BBQ sauce
- 8 ounces fontina cheese, freshly grated
- 4 ounces white cheddar cheese, freshly grated
- 6 sliced bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 4 green onions, thinly sliced
- 1/3 cup fresh cilantro
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley
- 1/4 cup snipped chives
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
- Heat a skillet over low heat and add 1 tablespoon each of olive oil and butter. Add the sliced shallots with a pinch of salt and stir to coat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onions become caramely and golden brown, about 15 to 20 minutes. Stir in the balsamic vinegar and cook for another 5 minutes to deepen the flavor.
- Place the chicken in a bowl and toss it with the brown sugar, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper until evenly coated. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and add 1 tablespoon each of olive oil and butter. Add the chicken and cook until golden on both sides and cooked through, flipping occasionally, about 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from the heat. Toss with 1/3 cup of BBQ sauce.
- Spread a thin layer of BBQ sauce over each side of the bread. Sprinkle half of the fontina cheese on both sides of the bread, just a light layer to act as “glue.” Top the cheese with the chicken, shallots and bacon. Cover with the remaining fontina and white cheddar. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until the cheese is golden and bubbly and the bread is toasted. Remove the bread from the oven and drizzle with the remaining BBQ sauce, then cover generously with the sliced onions, cilantro, parsley and chives. Slice into squares and serve.
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49 Comments on “BBQ Chicken French Breads.”
I had to laugh at “the entire thing is so scary good that it makes me want to do the ugly cry.” Oh the ugly cry!
But, these sound like I MAY have to join you in that. These may be the only thing that gets me through the next few months of watching football with the hubs. Pinned!
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interesting…email me more info…Vaughan jones…hsfvajones@aol.com,
HSE fans hold these truths to be self-evident: “It may be a leeeeeettle high maintenance but it’s worth it.”
Maybe a little complicated and so so very worth the chopping and time and heavy TJs basket? Girl, we know it and we love it and that is why we’re here.
Truth.
AMEN.
I have no words for how delicious these bbq chicken french breads pieces look, i mean, I hope a serving size is about 10 of them. What is it about French bread that makes it so good with pizza-esque recipes like this? The crunch?! must be.
Oh man, Claire Danes definitely has the ugly cry down pat. Can’t believe it is back on in a few weeks! I can barely remember what happened in the last season.
Totally bought those Stouffers french bread pizzas back in the day too. They were oddly delicious, yet always seemed to taste like chewy rubber within 5 seconds of getting out of the microwave. I’m sure these are a a million times better!
YES!! Haha. Claire Danes’ ugly cry is masterful. Cannot be topped.
Back to the food, these do look great for football watchin!
Oh my…I seriously want this NOW, and it’s only 8:15a.m.!
Yay for Friday and “eating colour”! I’m always up for a heavy handed drizzle of BBQ sauce. ;)
Gimme gimme!
Someone please tell me I’m not the only one who wondered what the heck BBQ chicken french braids were? I had some whacked image of a chicken breast, sliced in 3 and braided…
I’m gonna go drink some more coffee, clearly.
The next time my husband and I have a disagreement, I’m going to wave a loaf of French bread. This should solve EVERYTHING. Miracle food!
Claire Danes has been ugly crying since her role in romeo and Juliet with Leonardo DeCaprio.
Wow, those look amazing. And your photography is gorgeous!
Love love love these images! Some of my favorites of yours in awhile! Super pretty and what a fun idea! Pinned! :)
I haven’t even tried these yet and they make me want to ugly cry over them. Get in my belly.
OMG this looks amazing!! I can’t wait to try and make this :)
xo,
Dana Kay
http://adashofeverythingblog.blogspot.com/
Ok, when I first read the title I read it as “BBQ Chicken French BRAIDS” and I was highly confused. The real name makes much more sense and sounds delicious.
As for Claire Danes, I’m just glad she has a cute hubby at home who I hope gives her head massages every night to relieve the pressure that must build from playing Carrie.
BBQ chicken and cheese is one of my favorite combinations. This looks heavenly.
Cheese, bread & BBQ sauce- my favorite combo! Can’t wait to try these!
Does it get any better than this?
yea … not at all.
I’m a BBQ girl at heart, the smokier the better
Oh GAWDDDDD I need these in my life like yesterday! If my skinny jeans didn’t protest I’d eat a whole loaf/baguette of bread a day and with chicken and cheese and bbq – dying here!
omg. looks so good, pinning for later!!
The ugly cry is not something I joke about — so now I’m really interested in trying these!!! Thanks sooooo much for creating!
Looks delicious – can’t wait to try!
I need that in my life!!
Thunder and rain outside = comfort foods galore!
I believe you could ugly cry because of these. My mouth is watering!!
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My family would go nuts for this!
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Made this for football Sunday yesterday, beyond amazing! My boys were in love!
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Made these for family dinner tonight – let everybody mix and match their green toppings. I had a small salad on top of mine – so good!!!
Popped them under the broiler to get some extra color and bubble in the cheese. :)
This one is a keeper!
Absolutely amazing recipe, love it! I’ve included it in our best of food blogging this week post over on our website, if you want to check it out, here’s a link https://www.corrchilled.co.uk/index.php?route=pavblog/blog&id=104 :)
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I’m gonna cry if I’m not eating these LIKE NOW.
Yummm!
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This is a dangerous dish. A dangerously delicious dish.
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