Easy Honey Garlic Chicken

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Our crock pot honey garlic chicken is perfect for any weeknight meal, is kid-friendly, and made with only 5 ingredients! Grab honey, soy sauce, chicken breasts, chili sauce, garlic, and green onions and get cooking.

Honey garlic chicken in a bowl served over brown rice and green beans.

Crock Pot Honey Garlic Chicken

What is better than having dinner ready when you get home from a busy week? Throw all the ingredients for this honey garlic chicken into the slow cooker for an easy dinner.

The honey garlic sauce for this recipe is flavorful, sweet, and spicy all at the same time. Once you make this recipe, you’ll want to slather this sauce all over everything!

We love slow cooker recipes that have minimal ingredients, big flavor, and easy to meal prep for the week.

Before You Start This Recipe…

what does honey garlic chicken taste like?

This honey garlic chicken recipe is the perfect combination of sweet and spicy. The honey balances out the chili sauce to make a sticky and delicious sauce.

Internal Temperature

Be sure that the chicken breasts have an internal temperature of 165ºF before shredding the chicken after cooking.

What type of chicken Do I use?

We use chicken breasts for this honey garlic chicken recipe. If you are a dark meat kind of person, feel free to use chicken thighs (boneless or bone-in).

Just be sure you check the temperature of the chicken thighs and remove the bones before shredding the meat.

be sure you spray your slow cooker

We always recommend spraying your slow cooker before cooking anything for a long period of time to avoid burning on the edges of your slow cooker.

Can I make this in the instant pot?

You can make a version of this recipe in the Instant Pot.

  1. Follow are Instant Pot shredded chicken recipe.
  2. After the chicken breast is shredded, return into back into the Instant Pot.
  3. Add the soy sauce, garlic, chili sauce, and honey to a bowl and whisk all the ingredients together until the honey no longer clumps together.
  4. Add the sauce to the Instant Pot and toss the chicken with all the other ingredients.
  5. Turn on the sauté feature and bring the sauce to a boil.
  6. Heat everything together until it reaches your desired temperature.
Chicken breasts and other ingredients in the slow cooker.

5-Ingredients You Need

You read that correctly, this amazing crock pot honey garlic chicken is made with only 5 ingredients…and chances are you already have them in your pantry! Here’s the line-up:

Basic ingredients, amazing flavor!

Shredded honey garlic chicken in the slow cooker.

How to Make Honey Garlic Chicken Breast

It’s quite simple. All you have to do for this recipe is put all 5 ingredients into a slow cooker, turn it on, and walk away!

Temperature + Cook Time

High: You can either cook this recipe on high for 2-4 hours or…

Low: for 6-8 hours.

  1. Make the sauce. You want to make the sauce in a separate bowl before pouring it into the slow cooker. Why? You want to make sure the honey has dissolved into the other ingredients.
  2. Add the chicken breast. Spray the slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray and then add the chicken breasts to the slow cooker.
  3. Pour the sauce. Pour the sauce into the slow cooker over the chicken. Be sure the chicken is covered in the sauce.
  4. Cook the chicken. Cook on high or on low.
  5. Shred the chicken. Once the chicken has an internal temperature of 165ºF shred the chicken with two forks.
  6. Optional thicken. If you like a thicker sauce add 1/2 tablespoon of cornstarch to the sauce and whisk the cornstarch into the sauce. Mix the chicken with the thick sauce, cover the slow cooker and let the sauce thicken.
  7. Serve over rice. Enjoy!

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What Goes with Honey Garlic Chicken?

You can easily turn this slow cooker chicken recipe into an amazing chicken meal prep by pairing it with your favorite grain and stir-fried veggies.

Portion out a serving of honey garlic chicken with a cup of cooked grains and a cup of veggies.

a couple more ingredient tips

Make it spicy

If you want to make this honey garlic chicken any spicier, add red pepper flakes or a few teaspoons (or a tablespoon if you’re a fire breathing dragon!) of sriracha to the honey garlic sauce.

Add some crunch

Serve this honey garlic chicken with sesame seeds or chopped cashews for some extra crunch.

How to Store Honey Garlic Chicken

Store this honey garlic chicken in an air tight container for 5-7 days in the refrigerator. We recommend keeping the honey garlic chicken separate from other ingredients (rice, veggies, etc.).

Can I Make this a Freezer Meal?

This honey garlic chicken is a great freezer meal if you are meal prepping for yourself or any loved ones.

  1. Create honey garlic sauce by mixing together minced garlic, honey, soy sauce and red chili garlic sauce until the honey has dissolved.
  2. Then, place chicken breast into a freezer safe gallon-sized bag and pour sauce on top.
  3. Remove as much air from the bag as possible and seal tightly.
  4. Freeze for up to 3 months.

Want to learn how to reheat this freezer meal? Check out how here.

Honey garlic chicken with rice and green beans in a meal prep container.

Honey garlic chicken sprinkled with green onions.

Crock Pot Honey Garlic Chicken

Our Crock Pot Honey Garlic Chicken is perfect for any weeknight meal, is kid-friendly, and made with only 5 ingredients! So? Make your grocery list, head to the store, and cook up this amazing slow cooker honey garlic chicken.

Prep: 10 minutesCook: 6 hoursTotal: 6 hours 10 minutes

Fat 3 Carbs 26 Protein 25

Yield 6 1x

Ingredients

  • 1.5 lbs. boneless, skinless chicken breast
  • 3 tablespoons minced garlic
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 1/2 cup soy sauce (or tamari)
  • 2 teaspoon chili garlic sauce
  • 1/2 tablespoon cornstarch (optional)

Instructions

  1. First, create your honey garlic sauce. Whisk together minced garlic, honey, soy sauce, and red chili garlic sauce un honey has fully dissolved.
  2. Next, place chicken breast on the bottom of your slow cooker. Then, pour the sauce over the chicken.
  3. Turn slow cooker to high and cook for 2-4 hours OR low and cook for 6-8 hours.
  4. Once your chicken is fully cooked and tender, remove chicken from slow cooker and use 2 forks to shred.
  5. Thicken sauce by adding in 1/2 tablespoon of cornstarch and whisk until dissolved.
  6. Then, add chicken back into the crockpot and stir with the sauce. Cover and let cook for 10 more minutes so that the sauce can fully thicken.
  7. Serve with your favorite grain and vegetable.

Tips & Notes

  • Nutrition is just for the chicken.
  • Cornstarch is optional, but your sauce will be thin if you don’t use it.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1/6 Calories: 214 Sugar: 23 Fat: 3 Carbohydrates: 26 Fiber: 0 Protein: 25

Author: Lee HershCategory: DinnerMethod: Slow CookerCuisine: Asian

Keywords: crock pot honey garlic chicken, slow cooker honey garlic chicken

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Lee is the founder of Fit Foodie Finds and based in Minneapolis, MN. She started this website in 2010 as a way to share her love for real food and wellness.

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