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This Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken is an easy dinner with tender shredded chicken coated in a sweet and savory homemade sauce. Everything cooks low and slow with honey, garlic, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, and onion until the chicken is tender and full of flavor.
Once the chicken is cooked, I thicken the sauce with a simple cornstarch slurry and toss the shredded chicken back in. I love serving this easy Crockpot honey garlic chicken over warm jasmine rice for a simple family dinner.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Easy slow cooker dinner: The Crockpot does most of the work.
- Sweet and savory: Honey, soy sauce, hoisin, garlic, and ginger make a flavorful sauce.
- Simple ingredients: Most of the sauce comes together with pantry staples.
- Great over rice: Serve it over jasmine rice for an easy complete meal.
Ingredient Notes
Chicken breasts: Boneless chicken breasts cook until tender enough to easily shred.
Honey: Adds sweetness and gives the honey garlic sauce its signature flavor.
Hoisin sauce: Adds a rich, slightly sweet and savory flavor to the sauce.
Soy sauce: I use low-sodium soy sauce to add savory flavor without making the sauce overly salty.
Garlic and ginger: These add plenty of flavor and balance the sweetness of the honey.
How to Make Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken
- In a bowl, whisk together the garlic and ginger, chicken broth, soy sauce, honey, hoisin sauce, crushed red pepper, and rice vinegar.
- Add the chicken breasts and diced onion to the slow cooker.
- Pour the honey garlic sauce over the chicken.
- Cover and cook on LOW for about 6 hours, or until the chicken is completely cooked and tender.
- Remove the chicken from the slow cooker and shred it.
- Pour the liquid from the slow cooker into a saucepan over medium heat.
- Stir together the cornstarch and water, then add the slurry to the sauce and cook until it begins to thicken.
- Add the shredded chicken back to the thickened sauce and stir until well coated.
- Serve warm over jasmine rice.
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Tips for the Best Honey Garlic Chicken
- Use low-sodium soy sauce so you have better control over the saltiness of the finished sauce.
- Mix the cornstarch with water before adding it to the sauce to prevent lumps.
- Shred the chicken after cooking so it can soak up plenty of the thickened honey garlic sauce.
- Serve it over rice to catch all of that extra sauce.
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Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken
Ingredients
- 2 large chicken breasts
- 1 large white onion, diced
Sauce
- 1 tbs minced garlic and ginger
- ¾ cup chicken broth
- ¼ cup low sodium soy sauce
- 3 tbs honey
- ¼ cup hoisin sauce
- 1 dash crushed red pepper
- 1 tsp rice vinegar
Cornstarch Slurry
- 1 tbs cornstarch and 1 tbs water, mixed
Instructions
- In a bowl, whisk together all the ingredients for the sauce.
- In the slow cooker, add the chicken, onions and cover with the sauce.
- Cook on low for about 6 hours or until chicken completely cooked.
- After the 6 hours remove the chicken and shred it. To a saucepan over med heat, pour in the liquid from the slow cooker and add in the cornstarch slurry. Once combined, add the shredded chicken to the sauce pan and mix well.
- I like to serve over Jasmine rice!
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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My family absolutely loves this recipe! They ask me to make it every week. I used frozen chicken breasts instead (thawed). Since they are smaller than the fresh, I used 4. It was the best option since I can keep the ingredients on hand and make it on a day when I’m not as busy.
This was delicious! We topped with sesame seeds and green onion, my husband took leftovers next day for lunch too it made a ton! We are loving all your recipes 🙂
I made this recipe tonight there was so much flavors it was so good it’s a keeper I added broccoli and I didn’t have jasmine rice so brown rice was what I had to use
Don’t know what happened to my comment. Guess it was saved or something. Anyway I have two questions. 1. What can I use in place of hoisin sauce in the honey garlic chicken? 2. If I want to make 1/2 the recipe (2 servings instead of 4), should I still cook on low for 6 hours in my 6 quart slow cooker? Thank you.
I want to reduce this recipe to 2 servings (1 large chicken breast, etc.). Do I still cook it for 6 hours on low?
Also, what can I sub for the hoisin sauce or should I just leave it out? Thank you.