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Slow cooker honey garlic chicken thighs in a crockpot.

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe

Yield: 4 servings
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 4 hours 10 minutes
Total Time: 4 hours 10 minutes
Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken is an easy crockpot recipe and a true family favorite. We use skinless chicken thighs (although chicken breast works, too!) and slow cook them in a sticky honey garlic sauce. Serve them whole with the sauce poured over the top, or shred the meat and mix it with some of the deliciously sweet sauce. Either way, you're going to love it!

Ingredients

Instructions 

  • Place the chicken thighs in your slow cooker in a single layer.
    8 bone-in skinless chicken thighs
    Raw boneless, skinless chicken thighs arranged in the bottom of a black slow cooker, ready to be transformed into flavorful slow cooker honey garlic chicken.
  • In a small bowl, mix the honey, tomato paste, soy sauce, molasses, oregano, and garlic. (See notes.) Pour the sauce over the chicken. Put the lid on the slow cooker and turn it to high for 2-3 hours or low for 5-6 hours. (See notes)
    ¼ cup honey, ¼ cup soy sauce, 2 tablespoons tomato paste, 1 teaspoon molasses, ½ teaspoon oregano, 4 cloves garlic
    A close-up of raw chicken being covered with a thick, dark sauce poured from a bowl—perfect for making slow cooker honey garlic chicken.
  • A half hour before you're ready to eat, whisk the cornstarch with 2 tablespoons of cold water and pour it into the crockpot. Mix it around a little to thicken the sauce.
    2 tablespoons cornstarch
    A person stirs a white powder with liquid in a small white bowl using a spoon, preparing ingredients on a marble surface for slow cooker honey garlic chicken.
  • Serving option 1: Pour some sauce over the chicken thighs and then sprinkle with a bit of green onion and sesame seeds.
    Sesame seeds and chives
    A plate of slow cooker honey garlic chicken thighs, glazed to perfection and garnished with sesame seeds and chopped green onions, held by two hands over a marble surface.
  • Serving option 2: Shred the chicken with two forks, and then mix in ½ cup of the sauce.
    A white bowl filled with slow cooker honey garlic chicken, shredded and coated in a brown sauce, garnished with sesame seeds and chopped green onions, on a marble surface.

Notes

If you have a large slow cooker, you can mix the sauce in it, then add the chicken and stir it around. I find this a little hard to do in a small slow cooker.
While you can cook this longer (8 hours on low), the chicken will be very tender and is best shredded.
Serving: 2 chicken thighs with ¼ of the sauce, Calories: 365kcal, Carbohydrates: 28g, Protein: 40g, Fat: 10g, Saturated Fat: 2g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g, Monounsaturated Fat: 3g, Trans Fat: 1g, Cholesterol: 194mg, Sodium: 1167mg, Potassium: 644mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 20g, Vitamin A: 176IU, Vitamin C: 3mg, Calcium: 58mg, Iron: 3mg