Slow Cooker Honey Chicken

Happy Monday!  I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.  After a busy weekend, sometimes you just need an easy meal to make on Sunday night.  If you need a simple summer recipe for dinner, this slow cooker honey chicken is great if you don't want to use the stove top or oven.  There are only a few ingredients and everything gets mixed into one bowl.  I love easy cleanup meals!  I served this honey chicken over white rice with a side of garlicky french green beans with slicked almonds.

Slow Cooker Honey Chicken

Printable Recipe

Ingredients

1 pound skinless chicken thighs, 4 pieces (You can use chicken breasts instead.)

1/3 cup honey

½ cup soy sauce (I used a low sodium soy sauce.)

½ cup ketchup

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 teaspoon of your favorite seasoning (I used Trader Joe’s 21 Seasoning Salute.)

Directions

In a bowl, whisk together the honey, soy sauce, ketchup, and garlic.

Add chicken to honey mixture.  Pour into slow cooker.

 

Cook on low for 6 hours, until chicken is cooked through.

 

Serve over rice.

 

Serves 4.

Slow Cooker Honey Sesame Chicken

This slow cooker honey sesame chicken dish is amazing and so easy to make!  I loved it so much that I am actually looking forward to eating leftovers for lunch tomorrow.  I have seen this recipe all over various food blogs, but naturally I changed some of it to my taste and to what I already had.  I used organic bone-in skinless chicken thighs, but you can use boneless or even use chicken breasts instead.  I also included sesame oil and ginger in my recipe unlike some of the others I have seen.  I didn't have cornstarch to thicken the sauce so I substituted flour instead.  Overall, this was a great dish and I will definitely be making this on a regular basis. 

Here are some of the recipes I found on other food blogs:  A Cook's Quest, Chef in Training, Eat Drink Love, Prevention RD, Six Sisters' Stuff, Table for Two, and Very Culinary.

Slow Cooker Honey Sesame Chicken
Printable Recipe

Ingredients

1 pound skinless chicken thighs, 4 pieces

½ cup honey

2 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce

3 tablespoons onion, diced

2 tablespoons ketchup

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

2 cloves garlic, minced

¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes

¼ teaspoon sesame oil

¼ teaspoon ginger, minced

1 tablespoon flour (You may use cornstarch instead.)

1 tablespoon sesame seeds, roasted

salt

pepper

 

Directions

Season chicken with salt and pepper and place into slow cooker.

 

In a small bowl, whisk together the honey, soy sauce, onion, ketchup, oil, garlic, red pepper flakes, sesame oil and ginger.

 

Pour honey mixture over chicken.

 

Cook on low for 3 to 4 hours or on high for 1 ½ to 2 ½ hours, until chicken is cooked through.

Remove chicken from the slow cooker.

 

Whisk 1 tablespoon flour into the sauce in the slow cooker to thicken sauce.  Cover and continue to cook for 10 minutes.

  

While the sauce is thickening, cut chicken into bite-sized pieces. 

Add chicken back to the sauce and stir to coat chicken with sauce.

 

Serve over rice. Sprinkle sesame seeds over chicken.

Serves 4-6.  Enjoy!