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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 moist 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.
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
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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Slow Cooker Honey Ginger Chicken
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:
Heidi says
How close is this in taste to your grilled Hulu Hulu chicken (one of our MOST favorite recipes)?
Leigh Anne Wilkes says
some similarities but different because of the honey used in this recipe vs. the pineapple juice in the other to sweeten it.
Vicki Bazalo says
Tried this tonight and it was soooo yummy. Everyone lapped it up. I also added a slosh of pomegranate molasses with the other ingreds, and that added even more to its deliciousness.I reduced the sauce right down at the end to make it thick and sticky.
Andy B says
These look amazing – I did something similar and made them with a sticky bbq and korean sauce. Will definitely try this method.
Char says
I made this recipe twice now and it was a big hit for my kids! I doubled it.
Sonia says
Just put it in the slow cooker. Cannot wait until dinner time.