Crockpot Honey Sesame Chicken. This easy recipe makes chicken in a sauce made with soy sauce, honey, and ketchup, and topped with sesame seeds, all in a slow cooker. Season both sides of chicken with lightly with salt and pepper, and place in the bottom of slow cooker. In a small bowl, add honey, soy sauce, onion, ketchup, oil, garlic and pepper flakes and stir until well combined.
Sweet honey and sesame sauce smothering this Slow Cooker Honey Sesame Chicken is an easy family-favorite and so easy it will become a new staple recipe in your rotation!
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You can cook Crockpot Honey Sesame Chicken using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Crockpot Honey Sesame Chicken
- Prepare 1.5 lbs of boneless, skinless chicken thighs.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of honey.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of soy sauce.
- It's 1/2 cup of diced yellow onion.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of canned tomatoe paste.
- It's 2 tsp of Apple cider vinegar.
- It's 1 tbsp of vegetable oil.
- Prepare 2 cloves of minced garlic.
- You need 1/4 tsp of red pepper flakes.
- You need 1 tbsp of cornstarch.
- Prepare 1 tsp of sesame oil.
- It's of Salt & Pepper.
- You need of Sesame seeds for garnish.
Spray crock pot with non-stick cooking spray. Season both sides of chicken with lightly with salt and pepper, put into crock pot. In a small bowl, combine honey, soy sauce, onion, ketchup, oil, garlic and pepper flakes. Whisk the honey, soy sauce, onion, ketchup, canola and sesame oils, ginger, garlic and pepper flakes together in a mixing bowl and pour over the chicken thighs.
Crockpot Honey Sesame Chicken instructions
- Season chicken with salt and pepper and place in crockpot.
- In a small bowl combine/mix together tomatoe paste, vinegar, soy sauce, honey, vegetable oil, garlic, onion, and pepper flakes.
- Pour your mixture over top of chicken and cook on low 3-4 hours or high 1-2 hours.
- Remove cooked chicken from crockpot, but leave the sauce..
- Dissolve cornstarch in 1/3 cup of water and mix into the sauce that has been left in your crockpot.
- Add sesame oil to crockpot..
- Cover crockpot and let cook for 10-15 mins-until sauce thickens a bit..
- In the meantime..shred your chicken into bite sized pieces and return chicken to your crockpot.
- Add sesame seeds for garnish!.
- This recipe is perfect with my homemade fried rice! I hope you enjoy!.
If you are looking for an amazing slow cooker chicken recipe this one is it! My family gave rave reviews on this one and it is totally on our to-make again list. The flavor is amazing and it is pretty easy to put together. The hardest part of this meal is just cutting up the chicken before tossing everything else. How to make honey sesame chicken in the crockpot.