Droolworthy BBQ Shredded Chicken Freezer Meal with Garlic Mayo

This BBQ Shredded Chicken Freezer Meal recipe has always been delicious, but when my friend Christie introduced me to serving it with garlic mayo, it leveled up to drool-worthy status! Seriously, this tastes amazing.

Admittedly, this is messy to eat, but you won’t mind having drips of garlic mayo mixed with BBQ sauce and minced onions running down your wrists because it is so worth it! The garlic mayo also goes beautifully with our Dr. Pepper Pulled Pork and our Make Ahead Beef Dip.

We recently gave ourselves a challenge of making freezer meals with 5 ingredients or less and included this recipe. You can see this being put together as well as the other meals here:

BBQ Shredded Chicken Freezer Meal Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 3-5 boneless, skinless chicken breasts or 8-10 boneless, skinless chicken thighs
  
• 3/4 cup finely minced onion
  
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
  
• 1 bottle of barbeque sauce or 425 mL of your own homemade BBQ sauce
  
• 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar

Assembly instructions:

1. To put this freezer meal together, place the chicken, minced onion, minced garlic, barbeque sauce, and apple cider vinegar in a large resealable bag.
2. Remove excess air and seal.
3. Freeze.

Cooking instructions:

1. On the day you want to serve this, take it out of the freezer and allow it to thaw.
2. Cook it in the crockpot on low for 3-5 hours.
3. Shred when done and serve in on buns on top of garlic mayo. You can also serve this shredded BBQ chicken on nachos or in tacos.

I’ve brought this with us camping many times. I’ve also had it on a lazy Sunday afternoon and served it to company. You just really can’t go wrong when something tastes this good.

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Droolworthy BBQ Shredded Chicken Freezer Meal with Garlic

Prep Time

5 mins

Cook Time

3 hrs

Total Time

3 hrs 5 mins

 

Course: Main Course

Servings: 6

Calories: 509 kcal

Ingredients

• 3-5 chicken breasts boneless, skinless or 8-10 boneless, skinless chicken thighs
• 3/4 cup onion finely minced
• 4 cloves garlic minced
• 425 mL barbeque sauce or homemade BBQ sauce
• 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar

Instructions

1. Place the chicken, minced onion, minced garlic, barbeque sauce, and apple cider vinegar in a large resealable bag.
2. Remove excess air and seal.
3. On the day you want to serve this, take it out of the freezer and allow it to thaw.
4. Cook it in the crock pot on low for 3-5 hours.
5. Shred.
6. Serve in on buns on top of garlic mayo. You can also serve this shredded BBQ chicken on nachos or in tacos.

Garlic Mayo Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup mayo
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 tsp. lemon juice
• dash of salt and pepper

Instructions:

1. Mix together all the ingredients and serve on buns before topping with the shredded BBQ chicken. If there’s any leftover, you can store it in the fridge in an airtight container. We never have any leftovers though because it is lick-the-bowl good (or so I’ve heard)!

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Garlic Mayo Recipe

Servings: 6

Calories: 126 kcal

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup mayo
• 4 cloves garlic minced
• 1/2 tsp. lemon juice
• dash of salt and pepper

Instructions

1. Mix together all the ingredients.
2. Serve on buns before topping with the shredded BBQ chicken.
3. If there's any leftover, you can store it in the fridge in an airtight container.

This drool-worthy BBQ Shredded Chicken recipe is included in the More Family Favourites Freezer Meal Plan along with other family-friendly recipes, shopping lists and printable labels.

Here are other “freeze ahead” recipes that may also interest you:

Chicken and Spinach Alfredo

BBQ Pulled Pork

Pizza Stuffed Chicken