If you lovely quick, easy slow cooker meals, you'll love this recipe of mine for the Slow Cooker Sticky Chicken!
It's kind of my take on Chinese Chicken, only done healthy, in the slow cooker.
PIN STACE'S SLOW COOKER STICKY CHICKEN RECIPE.
Here's how to make a batch
The best way to change the texture of your chicken in a slow cooker is to crumb it. I use GF flour for this.
Brown everything off, chop it nice and small and pop in to your slow cooker to do it's thang.
This is how it looks before it cooks. If you're home while it's cooking, I like to give it a stir 2 or 3 times, that helps the honey really set on it.
And done! Make your rice for the side with all that hidden veg.
And done, dinner is sorted!
Sticky Chicken In The Slow Cooker & Pressure Cooker
- Total Time: 4 hours 10 minutes
Description
This sticky chicken recipe made in the slow cooker or pressure cooker sure is a popular one. It features in my 4-Week Slow Cooker Meal Plan. and everyone raves about how much their family loves it. I make it mostly in my pressure cooker because I find the heat ensures there isn't too much liquid left afterwards and makes everything very crispy. But if you have a little more time, go ahead and make it in the slow cooker, just cook down any of the liquid if it needs it. Any leftovers are yummy for lunch popped in rice paper rolls, rolled in lettuce leaves or just as is. Pressure Cooker Timing = 13 minutes, Slow Cooker Low = 3-4 hours, Slow Cooker High = 1.5 - 2 hours
Ingredients
- 1kg chicken breast or thighs, chopped
- 3 tablespoons corn or tapioca flour
- 1 brown onion, finely chopped
- 1 capsicum, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves
- 3cm piece of ginger, finely chopped
- FOR THE SAUCE
- ¼ cup tamari or soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons raw honey
- ON THE SIDE
- 1 cup of rice & 1 ¾ cups broth
- 100g frozen peas
- 100g sugar snap peas
- ½ head broccoli
Instructions
- In a bowl, toss the chopped chicken with the flour and a generous sprinkle of salt and pepper. Then, in a hot pan (or your slow cooker if you have that option), brown the onions, capsicums, garlic and ginger in a generous pour of oil or butter.
- Once the onions are brown, remove them from the pan and add the chicken in. You want to 'just' sear the chicken. Now add in the sauce ingredients and the chicken and onion mixture. Stir well to ensure the sauce is all over the chicken and pop the lid on to cook. If you can, give it a stir every so often so it doesn't stick. But don't worry about the ongoing stirring it if you're pressure cooking it, just give it a good stir when it's done.
- With 20 minutes to go, cook the rice in your bone broth. When it's nearly done, shred the broccoli through the rice and add the frozen peas. You'll be surprised how quick it cooks when it's in the hot rice.
- Then, when it's all ready to go, stir the sugar snaps through the chicken and serve with the veggie packed rice.
Notes
- If you're cooking this in a slow cooker with a thick lid, like a pressure cooker, it will be watery. Take the lid off for the last hour of cooking.
- If you want the sauce really thick, you can drain it off and thicken it up in a pan over high heat.
- Make sure you sear the chicken and not just add the flour into the cooker, it will end up gluggy.
- Do go to the extra effort to serve your rice with the veg in it. It's a great way to get extra veg in and it also helps kids know that not every time food is going to look the same. Sometimes the rice will have vegetables, other times some seeds, and sometimes mumma might pop some powdered turmeric in and turn the rice yellow! All is ok, all is yum, all is healthy.
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 240
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 6
- Calories: 0
- Sugar: 0
- Sodium: 0
- Fat: 0
- Saturated Fat: 0
- Unsaturated Fat: 0
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 0
- Protein: 0
- Cholesterol: 0
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