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So if you are like me the last thing you want to do the day after Thanksgiving is cook! You with me on that one?
Hopefully you’ve got a refrigerator full of leftovers and everyone can just help themselves today! If you are looking for something to do with that leftover Turkey check out my guest post over at Thirty Handmade Days and the Italian Turkey Soup I’m sharing.
If you aren’t lucky enough to have a refrigerator full of leftovers today’s recipe for Crock Pot Honey Sesame Chicken is so easy. You will feel like you really didn’t cook.
Besides being easy it is also so delicious! This recipe was one of my good Pinterest finds. I think I am batting about 50/50 with recipes I find on Pinterest. Half are great and half aren’t so great! This one is great and came from The Comfort of Cooking.
This recipe calls for boneless, skinless chicken thighs of which I am a big fan. They are inexpensive and I think they are more flavorful and moist than chicken breasts. I especially like them better in a crock pot because they don’t tend to dry out as much as chicken breasts do. But I know there are people who just don’t like chicken thighs so you can totally use chicken breasts in this recipe too.
The chicken gets put in the crock pot with a sauce of onion, garlic, honey ketchup, soy sauce, oil, and red pepper flakes.
Use 6-8 thighs or 4 breasts. You want about 2 pounds of meat.
Let it cook on low for 3-4 hours or 2 hours on high. Then remove the meat and shred it.
You are also going to use the sauce that is left in the pot.
Put the sauce into a sauce pan. Add in 1/3 C of water with 4 tsp cornstarch mixed in into the sauce pan. Stir to combine and then cook over medium high head for about ten minutes or until the sauce thickens.
Then pour the sauce back over the shredded chicken. Serve over rice and top with sesame seeds and chopped green onions.
It’s pretty and delicious!
Enjoy!
Leigh Anne
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Ingredients
- 6-8 boneless, skinless chicken thighs or 2 chicken breasts (about 2 lbs total)
- salt and pepper
- 1/2 C onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 C honey
- 1/4 C ketchup
- 1/2 C soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
- 4 tsp cornstarch
- 1/3 C water
- 1 Tbsp sesame seeds
- 3 green onions, chopped
Instructions
- Put chicken in crock pot. Season with salt and pepper
- In a bowl combine onion, garlic, honey, ketchup, soy sauce, oil and red pepper flakes.
- Pour over chicken
- Cook on low for 3-4 hours or high for 2 hours
- Remove chicken and shred.
- In a small bowl combine cornstarch and water.
- Pour sauce in crock pot into a sauce pan and add in the cornstarch mixture.
- Stir to combine over medium heat. Cook for about 10 minutes or until thickened. Stirring often.
- Pour over chicken.
- Serve over rice
- Sprinkle with sesame seeds and green onions.
You hit the nail on the head with this one! I have no leftovers from Thanksgiving but I do have a bag of frozen chicken thighs (eww) that I need to use up. And with the kids home from school, the last thing I want to do is take them all to the store. This recipe is just what I needed.
Once again, you have saved the day for me! Thank you!
You gave this recipe really good reviews and I needed a dinner idea for tonight. I am tired out from Thanksgiving so this recipe is perfect. This will be in my crock pot today. Thank you so much for posting it. Great timing! Hope you and the family had a wonderful Thanksgiving day!
I totally agree, thighs taste much better when slow cooking and the price is better, too. I am printing this out and plan to make it tomorrow and I am sending a copy to my daughter and mom. Thanks!
Hope you all enjoy it!
I made this tonight! It was a hit. I mixed thighs and breasts and it was delicious. Thank you
Love that it worked with a combination of thighs and breasts! So glad you enjoyed it!
Update: My family and a friend that came over for dinner tonight all gave this dish high scores. Thanks again Leigh Anne.
So glad it was a hit! Thanks for letting me know.
So, this recipe could not have come on a better day! Helping to care for my parents leaves little time to cook. I had pulled out chicken breasts the night before, not being really sure how I would cook them. The email with this recipe came and I threw the chicken in the crock pot! It was amazing! Thanks for sharing this one!
All I can say is YUM!! Thank you for a great recipe.
I know others have said how good this recipe is but I just wanted to let you know how much my family loved this! It was easy to make and we hade almost everything already on hand. Thank you for sharing such a great dish.
Thanks so much for taking the time to let me know – I really love to hear when people enjoy the recipes I post.
This was delish . Husband loved it too. quick and easy . everything g already in the pantry.
I love it when that happens. You have everything you need and it’s delish! Thanks for letting me know.
great recipe! made a few additions- sesame oil to help marinate the chicken and give extra flavour, and a couple drops of sriracha (thai hot sauce) to give it a little kick! delicious! keep posting crock pot recipes please
Love your additions!
This was absolutely delish! Even the picky 12 year old was impressed
So glad everyone enjoyed it!