Lunch

Sweet and Sticky Asian Sliders

30 Mins

4 Servings

Ingredients

Hawaiian sweet rolls

4 Jimmy Dean Original Pork Sausage Patties

1 pineapple cored and sliced into 1/2" slices

4 oz white cheddar cheese cut into 8 thick slices

Asian BBQ sauce

1 cup water

1/4 cup rice wine (or white wine) vinegar

1/4 cup apple cider vinegar

5 tablespoons granulated sugar

2 teaspoons fine sea salt

3 star anise

1 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper

6 radishes thinly sliced

1 carrot shaved

The amazing flavor and texture combination of this simple sandwich will have you returning to it often as a crowd pleaser. Make the pickled salad in advance and it all comes together in 20 minutes or less.

Directions

1. Set oven to warm.

2. For the salad: Bring water to boil and pour into a heatproof bowl. Mix with vinegars, sugar, salt, star anise and pepper and mix until sugar is dissolved. Arrange prepped vegetables in a glass bowl and pour the vinegar mixture over them being certain vegetables are covered. Cover with a lid or plastic wrap and place into refrigerator for at least an hour and up to a week.

3. Heat a grill pan on stove over high heat until extremely hot and place pineapple slices onto pan. Grill for 3-5 minutes, flip slices and grill for another 3 minutes. Put slices on an oven safe plate or pan and place in warm oven.

4. Cook sausage patties in an air fryer according to directions (or fry in a pan if preferred.) Do not over cook. Place sausage into oven with pineapple to keep warm.

5. Dress Hawaiian rolls liberally with Asian BBQ sauce and place onto a baking sheet. Place a slice of pineapple onto bottom half of each roll. Add two slices of cheese topped with a sausage patty and add additional BBQ sauce.

6. Raise oven temperature to 350F. Place aluminum foil over sandwiches and heat in oven 10 -12 minutes. Serve with pickled salad.