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This Honey Ginger Chicken is finger licking good. A favorite at our house, it is so easy to make with your slow cooker!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
Honey Ginger Chicken in tender and full of flavor. The chicken thighs don’t dry out as easily as chicken breasts do. The sauce in this recipe is thick and delicious and is a combination of soy sauce, ketchup, garlic, honey and ginger. Don’t let the use of ketchup scare you away, I promise you, the sauce is delicious.
Ingredients Needed
- Chicken thighs, use boneless and skinless chicken
- Ketchup
- Soy Sauce
- Honey
- Minced Ginger
- Dried Basil
- Garlic
- Sesame Seeds
- Green Onions
How to Make Honey Ginger Chicken
- Combine all the sauce ingredients.
- Place chicken in the slow cooker and pour the sauce over the top.
- Cook on high for about 3-4 hours or low for about 5-6 hours.
How to Serve Honey Ginger Chicken
As the chicken cooks, a yummy sauce forms. Spoon it over the top of the chicken when serving. Garnish with some green onions and sesame seeds. We love it served over rice.
Tips from Leigh Anne
- I always keep chicken thighs in my freezer so this is an easy, last minute slow cooker meal that can be cooked in a shorter amount of time too. It doesn’t take all day like a lot of slow cooker recipes. If you don’t have chicken thighs you can use chicken breasts.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I make this in the Instant Pot?
Place chicken in pot and then pour sauce over the top.
Close your Instant Pot and turn the valve to seal.
Turn to Manual, high pressure and set timer for 5 minutes
Do a quick release and check for doneness.
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Honey Ginger Chicken Crock Pot Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 skinless boneless chicken thighs
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1 tsp fresh minced ginger
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- toasted sesame seeds for garnish
- green onion chopped, for garnish
Instructions
- Place chicken in bottom of slow cooker.
- Combine next six ingredients and pour over chicken.
- Cook on high for 3-4 hours or low for 5-6 hours.
- Pour sauce over chicken to serve and garnish with sesame seeds and green onion.
Tips & Notes:
- I always keep chicken thighs in my freezer so this is an easy, last minute slow cooker meal that can be cooked in a shorter amount of time too. It doesn’t take all day like a lot of slow cooker recipes. If you don’t have chicken thighs you can use chicken breasts.
Nutrition Facts:
Cheri Wilkins says
Have shared with many people everyone loves it, so good! We have it every two weeks.
Loni says
Delicious!! Will be a go to for crock pot meals! Family loved it!
Trish says
I used chicken breasts since that is what I had, turned out a bit dry. The sauce was very good!