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Slow Cooker Asian Glazed Chicken for those ‘throw it all in the slow cooker’ days and let something else worry about your dinner!
Fall apart tender chicken breasts (or chicken thighs) filling your house with sweet, honey garlic aromas, perfectly slow cooked and waiting for you when you get home. Slow cooker asian glazed chicken!
SLOW COOKER CHICKEN
Cooked in a thick and easy to make Asian glaze, you’ll be tempted to pour a big jug of sauce all over your chicken. (May or may not have done that myself.) I’ve been waiting non-patiently for over 2 years to share this recipe with you! And for those that know me, I have absolutely no patience. So this is an exciting day…
Slow Cooker Asian Glazed Chicken is a no-fail recipe using chicken breast fillets that will have the family (especially kids) crawling to the slow cooker to peer through the glass, wanting and waiting for the slow cooker to finish. The aroma is dizzying. And the taste? The taste is out of this world. Sweet, sticky and mouth-watering: the perfect sweet and salty combination.
You only need a handful of main ingredients in the sauce!
- Soy sauce (please use low-sodium)
- Oyster sauce
- Honey
- Garlic
Originally published on the Best Recipes Website January 29th, 2016.
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Slow Cooker Asian Glazed Chicken
Ingredients
- 2 pounds skinless boneless chicken breasts or chicken thighs
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 2 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons oyster sauce or extra hoisin sauce
- 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar or cider vinegar
- 6 cloves garlic crushed
- 1 teaspoon minced ginger
- 2 tablespoons green onions sliced, scallions, divided
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch cornflour
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 teaspoons sesame seeds to garnish
Instructions
- Whisk together the honey, melted butter, soy sauce, oyster sauce, vinegar, garlic, ginger and half of the scallions in slow cooker bowl. Place chicken into the sauce, rotating to coat. Cover and cook for 3-4 hours on low setting. (Cook time depends on the thickness of your chicken.)
- When the sauce is simmering (in the last hour of cooking time), whisk the cornstarch and water together in a small bowl until dissolved. Stir the cornstarch mixture into the sauce; change heat setting to high, mix it through and cover again to allow to thicken and continue cooking until the chicken is just beginning to fall apart.
- Taste test, season with salt, pepper and sriracha if desired. Serve with steamed greens and rice; garnish with sliced green onions and sesame seeds.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This was delicious. Mine didn’t quite thicken/glaze but it didn’t matter. The chicken was so flavorful and just melted in your mouth. I’ll def make it again.
My husband and I really enjoyed this chicken! I served it over an Asian vegetable rice. So good and so easy!
Didn’t have quite 2 lbs of chicken, but followed the recipe and the meat fell apart perfectly by the end of four hours. This sauce is pretty delicious, however, it is on the sweet side and is missing a bit of a kick. Next time I will try adding sriracha to the slow cooker along with the other ingredients.
Hi, I just put everything in my crockpot ~ my sauce isn’t red like in the pic. I keep reading the recipe to see if I missed something? The sauce tastes delicious though, I can’t wait until it’s done! I’m thinking of serving mine over sautéed cabbage and red onions.
Remarkable dish and so easy. Buy quality hoisin . I used Braggs aminos in place of soy sauce. Unreal!
I don’t have a slow cooker, any other way to prepare this?
I don’t have a slow cooker so cooked it on 140c for 3 1/2 hours then increased the temp to get the simmer to add the cornflour. This recipe is amazing. The chicken was incredible really tender and sooo tasty. My family loved it. Definitely one to add to my recipe book. Another winner thank you
That is great to hear! I am so glad that you loved it and that it turned out so great! Thanks for sharing!
This is such a delicious dish, Karina! The chicken was really tender and I totally like the combination of flavors. Sweet, salty and garlicky…all in one amazing dish. I actually tried both honey and sugar in different batches and my kids prefer the ones with honey in it. They said it’s more delicious 🙂
That is great to hear! Thank you so much for sharing and following along with me! I am so glad that everyone liked it and that you tried both glazes.
I used chicken tender breasts and cooked it in the oven at 375 for 20 minutes, turning them over at 10 minutes. They were perfect, very tender, and so delicious !
My family would love this dish. What a great way to have BBQ chicken anytime of the year, without all the mess and work. Looks amazing. Will be my go to recipe for BBQ chicken. Thanks for sharing.