Beef Roast Sliders

Juicy shredded beef roast smothered in gooey cheese and tangy sauce in between soft fluffy buns – these beef roast sliders are perfect for weeknight dinner or game day sides.

These Beef Roast Sliders are perfect for gatherings, offering a tender and flavorful beef roast topped with melty cheese on soft slider buns.

The beef slowly cooks in the crockpot and then comes together quickly in the oven.

A simple yet delicious option that will please any crowd.

Why This Slider Recipe Works

• Great recipe for a crowd – it makes 12 melt-in-your-mouth filling roast beef sandwiches. Sliders are much more convenient finger food for a party than burgers and are much more straightforward. They sit out well for up to 2 hours and by that time they will be long gone, I’m sure.
• Super easy roast beef sliders to make and customize to your liking.
• Family-friendly as I skip the pungent horseradish sauce (although I’ll share the ingredients with you to make it).
• This recipe uses a slow cooker for hands-off cooking time to make homemade beef roast! You only spend a few minutes to prep the ingredients and then the crockpot does all the hard work of cooking meat, and the oven finishes cooking the sliders.
• Irresistible. Beefy juices, tangy sauce, and gooey cheese in every bite. I can easily have 3 of these. Better than Arby’s!

Main Ingredients

• Beef chuck roast cut into large cubes. I prefer cubes but thinly sliced roast beef will work amazing as well. Home-cooked or deli roast beef – doesn’t matter, both make my taste buds dance. I use cubes because I roast them first in the slow cooker and then I pull beef – finger-licking good.
• Beef broth or consomme, Onion soup mix, and Red wine vinegar are my favorite ingredients to slow-cook a delicious chuck roast.
• Minced garlic. Can substitute with garlic powder.
• Slider buns, brioche buns, or Hawaiian sweet rolls. If you want a handmade bun, prepare and bake sourdough or dinner buns. I pack usually has exactly 12 or 16 buns.
• Provolone cheese. Roast beef and cheese are a combo made in heaven for sliders. Another easy substitute is Cheddar cheese and Pepper Jack. I use slices. You can buy them or slice cheese yourself. I absolutely vote for regular melted cheese in these sliders, but it is possible to use Cheez Whiz or similar store-bought cheese sauces.
• Fresh arugula as garnish.
• Salt and pepper, to taste

Kitchen Equipment

• Slow Cooker to roast the beef to perfection. If you use deli roast beef, you don’t need to use your slow cooker.
• Baking sheet or baking dish with parchment paper.
• Optional, small bowl if you will make any of your favorite sauces.
• Serrated knife to slice the buns or rolls in half.

How To Make Beef Roast Sliders in Slow Cooker

1 – Cook The Beef In Slow Cooker

1. Prepare a slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray.
2. Place the roast into the bottom of the slow cooker.
3. Add the broth, onion soup mix, garlic, and red wine vinegar.
4. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or until the beef is tender.
5. Remove the beef from the pot and shred/pull it using two forks. 

2 – Assemble The Roast Beef Cheese Sliders

1. Strain the liquid in the cooker to remove the solids.
2. Preheat the oven to 350° degrees F (175°C). 
3. Slice the slider buns in half and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. 
4. Add the shredded beef and a slice of provolone cheese on top of the bottom half of the slider buns.

3 – Bake roast beef sliders

1. Cover with aluminum foil and bake in the preheated oven for about 5-7 minutes, or until the cheese is melted.
2. Remove from the oven, add the top half of the buns, slice into individual portions, and serve warm.
3. Add arugula, sauce, and seeds depending on your preference.

Notes on Baking Roast Beef Sliders In The Oven

If you have pre-cooked or leftover meat or sliced meat from a deli counter, you can totally bake roast beef sliders in a baking dish in the oven at 350 F.

Assemble the sliders in the dish, brush with buttery sauce, cover with foil, and bake for 10 minutes. Then remove the foil and bake for another 10 minutes.

Storage

Cooled leftover sliders store well in the fridge for 2-3 days and reheat in a microwave for 20 seconds, or in the oven at 300F covered with foil to keep the top buns from burning.

On the 3rd day, they may be a touch too moist and start to become soggy so better eat them within 2 days.

You can freeze the roast beef sliders for 2-3 months.

Make Ahead

Sliders are great to make ahead: prepare the beef sliders 1 day ahead and wrap them with plastic wrap to store in the fridge until you want to bake and serve them.

Reheat in the oven and serve warm or cold.

What To Eat With Roast Beef Sliders?

Sliders are a great dinner or side dish for a game night, you can also complement them with:

• Green salad (like Kale salad), pasta salad, or classic potato salad,
• Fries, potato wedges or chips,
• Roasted vegetables like carrots, broccoli, or Brussels sprouts.

Substitutions And Variations For Sliders

• Good add-ons for slider recipes are caramelized onions or fried onions, bacon, and pepperoncini peppers. Caramelizing onions takes a bit of time but it is well worth the effort.
• Instead of slider buns use King’s Hawaiian rolls cut in half lengthwise.
• To make a more flavorful sauce to slow cook beef chunks you can add Worcestershire sauce and mustard to the pot. An easy shortcut for the sauce is to use the Au Jus Gravy Packet and cook it right before making the sliders.
• Bagel seasoning is one of the secret ingredients in a good roast beef slider. It contains poppy seeds, toasted sesame seeds, dried garlic, dried onion, and salt. It is quite healthy and adds tons of flavors to baked roast beef sliders.
• To have a perfect golden brown color on the buns, brush them with melted butter sauce (with or without seasoning) right before baking. For a sweeter taste, melt butter with brown sugar, for a more savory taste – add bagel seasoning or onion powder to the butter mixture.
• I don’t add horseradish sauce, and if you don’t want it, you can always use BBQ, mayo-based sauce, or just cheese and meat.
• Swap beef with pork. I love how pork pairs with caramelized onion mixture. Turkey from Deli is also a nice option for leaner and healthier sliders for Thanksgiving.
• If you love cheese, save some shredded cheese to sprinkle on top buns and bake for a few more minutes to allow the cheese to melt and crisp. Yum!
• To make it more Reuben style, add pickles, sauerkraut, and 1000 Island dressing.
• Garnish ideas: sesame seeds, Dijon Mustard seeds, Poppy Seeds, and fresh herbs. Seeds add some texture and crunch.
• This recipe can be made gluten-free (with zero gluten buns) and vegan.

What Is Creamy Horseradish Sauce?

Horseradish sauce adds a kick and a nice tangy flavor to the slider.

To make it you need to mix in a small bowl of grated horseradish, apple cider vinegar, sour cream or mayo, chives, and salt. Then you just add the prepared horseradish sauce to the buns.

Tips & Tricks To Make The Best Roast Beef Sliders

• Slice all the rolls in half horizontally together in one go leaving the bottom half a bit thicker than the top half. It will let it soak the juices but hold shape.
• Don’t be shy with meat. Load these buns! Melted cheese has a powerful taste and you need to have enough meat to not let the cheese or sauce overpower the roast beef flavor. Sliders are a great option to use leftover roast.
• To skip a slow cooker, you can marinate the meat in advance in the refrigerator for about 4 hours. It will soak all the flavors and you can cook it.
• Don’t add too many toppings to keep the tops of the rolls or buns from getting soggy. There is nothing worse than a mushy soggy slider. For the same reason, if you add any veggies or horseradish sauce inside the slider buns, make sure to pat dry those and drain any excess liquid.

Popular Questions

Are Beef Roast Sliders The Same As French Dip Sliders?

Roast beef sliders are quicker and simpler to make and have horseradish sauce, while French dip sliders usually have caramelized onions and au jus sauce to dip them in. Both are very tasty and have similar buns and ingredients.

What Cheese Goes With Roast Beef?

Swiss cheese, cheddar cheese, Gouda, Havarti, Calgary, and Provolone cheese are top choices for baked roast beef sliders. You need to choose good melting cheeses.

What Is The Best Beef Ratio For Sliders?

To make beef leaner but still fatty and juicy, keep an 80/20 fat-to-lean ratio for sliders. 90/10 ratio will be too dry.

What Is The Difference Between Beef Chuck And Beef Roast?

Usually, beef chuck is juicier and fattier as it is meat from the shoulder, while the roast cut is leaner and comes from the back legs of cows.

Both chuck and roast as well as deli meats are good for beef and cheese sliders.

Is Brisket Or Chuck Better For Sliders?

Both brisket and chuck roast are great meat options for sliders. Both can be shredded have tons of flavors and go well with tangy sauce or cheese. So use whichever you have leftover or pre-cooked.

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