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This easy Crock Pot Sesame Chicken Crockpot Sesame Chicken makes the perfect weeknight dinner, is kid friendly and is a great freezer meal idea!
On a busy day when you don’t want to cook, this Crockpot Sesame Chicken is so easy it will feel like you didn’t cook! Besides being easy it is also so delicious! The perfect family meal!
What Kind Of Chicken Should I Use in the Crock Pot?
This recipe calls for boneless, skinless chicken thighs. When using a crockpot, I am a big fan of using chicken thighs. They are inexpensive and more flavorful and most importantly for the crockpot, they are moist. They won’t dry out the way a chicken breast can.  But I know there are people who just don’t like chicken thighs so you can absolutely substitute chicken breasts in this recipe too.
How to Make Crockpot Sesame Chicken
- 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 sauce over chicken and serve.
How to Serve Crock Pot Chicken
Serve over rice and then garnish with sesame seeds and chopped green onions.
What to Serve with Crockpot Sesame Chicken
- Rice Pilaf
- Roasted Parmesan Asparagus
- Chinese Green Beans
- Roasted Broccoli
- Brown Rice
- Spinach Fruit Salad
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Crockpot Sesame Chicken Recipe
Crockpot Sesame Chicken
Ingredients
- 8 chicken thighs boneless, skinless chicken thighs or2 chicken breasts (about 2 lbs total)
- salt and pepper
- 1/2 cup onion chopped
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 cup honey
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
- 4 tsp cornstarch
- 1/3 cup 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.
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Donna says
Thank you for the Crock Pot Honey Recipe. It was so good every one loved it. Donna
Lisa says
Wow Sister Wilkes! I used an almost 2 pound pork sirloin tip roast from Costco AND some chicken thighs. I cut the raw roast into chunks, did the same with the boneless skinless frozen thighs. Put the meat in my CP, dumped the chopped onion on top of the meat. Then I mixed the sauce ingredients using GF soy sauce, EXCEPT I only used two dashes of red pepper flakes. I didn’t have any oil, so I used two tablespoons bacon grease (yum btw, I use bacon grease all the time). And I used tapioca starch in place of cornstarch.. This was yum!
It tastes like teriyaki chicken. Even my picky eaters liked it. 2# 6 ounces of meat for 9 people and there were leftovers, hurrah for lunch!
Thank you