How to Make Chopped Cheese Sliders (NYC’s Favorite Sandwich!) | Slider Sunday

Welcome back to Slider Sunday presented by King’s Hawaiian. Today we’re making one of my all-time favorite deli sandwiches — the chopped cheese — but slider-style.

This recipe is simple, messy, and guaranteed to please a crowd. Think juicy ground beef, melted American cheese, onions, mayo, and pickles… all piled onto King’s Hawaiian savory butter rolls. If you’ve ever had a late-night chopped cheese in New York, this is the slider version you’ll be craving on game day.

Kickoff tailgate season and pick up a pack of those irresistible King’s Hawaiian rolls in the bakery or deli section of your grocery store. There’s nothing like it! https://kingshawaiian.com/

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Guys, welcome back to Slider Sunday presented by Kings Hawaiian. Today we’re doing one of my favorite deli sandwiches, the chopped cheese. Let’s get cooking. [Music] All right, guys. It’s another beautiful Sunday. Today we’re doing the chopped cheese. It could not be easier. We have some ground beef. We have some American cheese. We have half an onion here. A little bit of garlic powder. A little bit of onion powder. some mayonnaise, guys. Chopped cheese. There’s not much to it. You’re taking ground beef. We’re putting in a hot pan, which is heating up right now. We’re throwing some cheese in there, some spices, putting on a bun, and calling it a day. But this is a crowd-pleaser. Trust me. Living in New York City for 5 years. This was my go-to at the deli. Late night, early morning, doesn’t matter. Grab yourself a chopped cheese and you’ll be happy. All right. I’m using just 80/20 ground beef here. What we’re going to do, get a pan, mediumigh heat. We’re going to take a little bit of olive oil. Little oil in the pan. We’re going to take our ground beef. We’re going to salt one side of it. We’ll salt the other side when it’s in the pan. We’re trying to make like a big patty. You could use burger patties for this, too. But we’re going to go kind of flatten this out cuz we want to we want a nice sear on the bottom. We want to get some crunchy, some crispy bits in it. We’re not just trying to get all ground beef. We don’t want it like tacos. We want some some crunch in there like you’re making a smash burger. kind of like a big smash burger. You’ll see in a second. So, salt one side, onion powder, garlic powder, just a little bit to start. This can go in the pan, which is nice and hot. That’s what I wanted. All right, let that start cooking. Salt the other side now. I’m going to take a little bit of wishes sauce here cuz why not? wishes or ground beef goes very well together. Boom. Now, a traditional chopped cheese sandwich, you’re going to have lettuce, you’re going to have tomatoes. I’m not doing any of that. For my toppings for this, for slider Sunday to keep it easy, I’m just going pickles. If you want to do lettuce, tomato, by all means, go for it. I like this is more of like a it’s more of a chopped cheese mixed with a White Castle slider. It’s just super easy, straight to the point, just what you want on slider Sunday. So, our ground beef is going off right there. While that’s going, I’m going to dice an onion. Boom. We’ll give this a flip. Perfect. We got some nice color on that. We’ll grab our Kings Hawaiian savory butter rolls. Now, these you can find in the deli section, in the fresh bakery section of your local grocery store. They’re going to stick right out to you. You’re going to go, “That’s what I need. I need the Kings Hawaiian. Top of the line here. Best in the business. Oh, just the smell. Oh my god, that’s slider sundae right there. That’s the smell of slider sundae.” And boom. We’re going to keep them whole like this. All right. What we’re going to do, grab your bread knife, find the middle, hand on top, and just slice. Perfect. We’re getting some nice color on this. Now, our ground beef, we’re just going to go ahead. We’re going to throw cheese all over it. Good old American cheese for this one, guys. Good amount of cheese. All right. Bottom of the buns here. Little bit of water in the pan. Just a bit for some steam. Cover it with a lid or another pan. Let that cheese melt a little bit more. And now here you’ll see we have just gooey sticky cheese. And if it’s not melted all the way, don’t worry. Doesn’t matter. We’re not done. Now we chop. Take your spatula, take a bench scrape, just go right in the middle. Look at that. All that cheese now has combined in there. Okay, let’s grab a mixing bowl. Beef and cheese goes in. Beautiful. We have about 1/4 of a cup of mayonnaise. That’s going to go in. Then half of the onion. I like a raw onion. If you like if you don’t like it raw, you can just saute a little bit. Take the harshness out. But I like that raw raw onion in there. It’s what gives it that kind of, you know, almost fast food style crunch. Give this a mix. Oh yeah. And then here we go with onion powder, garlic powder. Or if you want to make this really easy, they sell a French onion soup, like prepackaged seasoning. Packet of that would be delicious. But if not, little onion powder, a little garlic powder, little fresh black pepper. Perfect. All right. And now pickles. I like pickles cut length way. Why? Because it’s perfect for a slider. All you do cut them in half and then a pickle on each little piece here. Look at that. Perfect amount of pickle. Now we take that beef and cheese and onion mixture and just that. Spoon that right on top. Pile it high. This is perfect for a large group. This will feed people. They’ll be coming. They’ll be fighting over this. They’ll be pulling it apart. That’s what I love about Slider Sunday. It’s all about getting people together, getting the big games on the TV and having good food. And thanks to Kings Hawaiian, that’s all possible. All right. And now, if you want, if you want, you can top this with a little bit more cheese. You don’t need it. There’s enough cheese in there. But hey, it’s Cider Sunday. Why not? Why not have a little bit more cheese? You can never have too much cheese. We’re here. We’re in Chicago. We’re in the Midwest. It’s a city of cheese. Well, it’s not, but that’s we’re close enough to Wisconsin. All right. And now this goes in the oven. We’re not trying to toast this for this sandwich. The Kings Hawaiian. These savory butter rolls are so soft and fresh to begin with. Look at this. It’s like a cloud that we’re not trying to toast them. We just want to get these warm through and that cheese a little bit more melted. So, we’re popping in the oven like 350 just for, you know, 5 minutes, not even that long, just to get those buns warm, that cheese a little bit melted. And there. But look at that. I mean, already already you see this, you go, “Yeah, I could eat that. I could eat six. I could eat 10.” This goes in the oven. Boom. And just like that. Look, you don’t even need 10 minutes. You just need enough to get it to get it warm. The bread is so soft and so fresh that you just just warm it up. Just highlight the bread. And there you go. Now you have a tray. Put this down because it’s going to go quick. All right. We’re going to cut this one in half right on the tray just for ease. Now look, look at that. We lost a pickle. It’s all right. It’s for me. The chopped cheese, ladies and gentlemen. Cheers. [Music] That is delicious. I love slaughter sundae. And now I’m gonna say so everything. This one might be my favorite. I’m just gonna say this one might be my favorite until next week. But this one right now is my favorite. That savory butter roll makes it takes it from here to here. Guys, grab this at your deli, at your bakery, in your local grocery store. That was Slider Sunday. We’ll see you on the next one. Peace. [Music]