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Win Big With Our Game Day Ham & Cheese Sliders Recipe
In a little over two weeks, the biggest game of the football season will kick off. This is the biggest sporting event of the season and something every football fan looks forward to all year. You may have already hosted a few watch parties in the past few months, but with a game this important, your celebration needs to be bigger and better than ever. What's the best part of any big game party? In our opinion, it's the food. Cheering for your favorite team and socializing with friends can really make a sports enthusiast hungry. Feed the football fans well, and your company is guaranteed to leave satisfied no matter who wins. While there are several food staples for footwall season, you may be ready to try something new or different. This year, we're providing our readers with a delicious ham & cheese sliders recipe that's also easy to make, so you can stress less about serving and more about beating the competition. The best part is this recipe relies only on an air fryer/toaster oven. Keep reading to find out more.
Prep Your Game Day Menu With The Breville The Smart Oven Pro
While a game day snack of this kind could be cooked in a kitchen range, our ham & cheese sliders recipe got cooked to perfection using the Breville The Smart Oven Pro air fryer. This countertop machine offers a large one-cubic-foot capacity inside of the oven. This size accommodates a 12-cup muffin tray, a 9x13-inch pan, a five-quart Dutch oven, nine slices of bread, or even a 14-pound turkey. The small appliance uses Element IQ to tackle these cooking tasks. Element IQ features six independent quartz heating elements both above and below where the food is placed. This allows for more even cooking results. Plus, Breville has elevated Element IQ by adding PID temperature control technology and Breville sensing. On top of Element IQ, the model is also powered by Super Convection, which consists of a built-in fan that circulates heat inside the oven. This ultimately speeds up the cooking process and reduces cooking time by up to 30%. The Smart Oven is built with 13 preset functions:
- Toast
- Dehydrate
- Bagel
- Slow Cook
- Broil
- Cookies
- Bake
- Reheat
- Roast
- Airfry
- Warm
- Proof
- Pizza
The small appliance is also compatible with the Breville+ app, opening up even more cooking possibilities in your kitchen. This app provides cooking guides, over 200 guided, step-by-step recipes and live & on-demand cooking classes. To ensure you can try out a variety of meals and snacks, the machine comes with a handful of accessories too, including a 13-inch pizza pan, a mesh basket rack for air frying, two oven racks and a 9x13 broil rack & roasting pan. Everything about the Breville The Smart Oven Pro supports versatility in your kitchen, making it the perfect product for our ham & cheese sliders recipe and a wide selection of other game day snacks.
Try Out Our Sliders & More Football Food
So why do we love this ham & cheese sliders recipe? Our biggest reason is the ease of eating them. Sliders are small and handheld, so guests in your home can eat them easily and quickly without much mess. That's also why foods like chips & dip, nachos, pizza and french fries are also quite popular on game day. Forks and knives are not needed. Sometimes even plates aren't necessary if you pick just the perfect finger foods for your football watch party. With this in mind, there are more crowd-pleasing finger foods and easy game-day snack recipes available on our blog to help you build out your watch party menu. If you're looking for the perfect bite to serve alongside our ham & cheese sliders recipe, check out other posts like:
- Our Queso Blanco Nacho recipe
- Our Game Day Chili Mac recipe
- Our Air Fryer Pizza Pocket recipe
- Ooni's Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza recipe
You can also get a closer look at our slider-making process by checking out our cooking video on Facebook.
Yields
12 Servings
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Total Time
45 mins
Sandwiches
- A whole slab of 12 square dinner rolls, cut in half through the center
- 1 lb. thinly sliced deli ham
- 12 oz. Swiss cheese, sliced
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 ½ tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 ½ tablespoons yellow mustard
- 1 ½ tablespoons Dijon mustard
Bun Topping
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 5 tablespoons butter, cut into 1 tablespoon-sized pieces
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons dried minced onion
- 1 ½ teaspoons poppy seeds
- 1 ½ teaspoons sesame seeds
- Preheat your Breville The Smart Oven to 350°F.
- Cut the slab of dinner rolls in half through the center and place the bottom half into a 13x9 baking dish.
- Put the honey, mayonnaise, yellow mustard and Dijon mustard into a small mixing bowl and stir to combine.
- Spread half of this mixture over the dinner rolls in the baking dish, as well as on the bottom side of the dinner rolls used for the top of the sandwiches.
- Layer ham slices over the rolls in the baking dish, overlapping and folding as needed.
- Place your Swiss cheese slices on the layer of ham, overlapping and folding as needed.
- Put the top halves of the rolls on top of the ham and cheese. Place the dish to the side to begin the bun topping.
- Add butter, garlic powder, minced onion, sesame seeds and poppy seeds to a microwave-safe bowl and heat until butter is fully melted.
- Stir in the Worcestershire sauce.
- Using a basting brush, spread the butter mixture over the top of the dinner rolls.
- Cover the baking dish with foil and put inside the Breville The Smart Oven. Bake until the cheese is almost melted (about 20 minutes).
- Take the foil off the baking dish and bake for an additional five minutes.
