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Slow Cooker Honey Soy Chicken is so easy and so delicious you will be wondering how you ever lived without it!

Honey soy chicken over rice in white bowl.

I have been on a Slow Cooker kick lately – I just can’t get over the splendor of throwing ingredients into my slow cooker to simmer, soak and slurp up flavor and fill the house with tempting aromas all while I go about my day. From my Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken to my Slow Cooker French Dip Sandwiches, to this Honey Soy Chicken, I think I could live off of slow cooker meals for the rest of my life and be in complete multidimensional layered flavor heaven.

Honey Soy Chicken over rice in white bowl.

This Slow Cooker Honey Soy Chicken is my go to Asian Chicken. It is savory, slightly sweet with hints of Asian sweet chili sauce, garlic, ginger and my secret ingredient – blackberry preserves. Preserves might sound like an odd ingredient for Asian cuisine, but I use them often because they are absolutely delectable and a sweet yet full bodied flavor instead of just plain sugar – you will love the something- something they add to this cravilicous chicken!

Honey Soy Chicken over white rice in white bowl.

Now kick back, relax and let the Slow Cooker fill your home with the aroma of Honey Soy Chicken that’s about to become one of the easiest, tastiest dinners you’ve ever made!

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Slow Cooker Honey Soy Chicken

Slow Cooker Honey Soy Chicken is so easy and so delicious you will be wondering how you ever lived without it!
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 5 hours
Total Time: 7 hours 15 minutes
Servings: 6 Servings

Ingredients 

Honey Soy Sauce:

  • 1/3 cup low sodium soy sauce
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 1/4 cup seedless blackberry preserves
  • 3 tablespoons Asian Sweet Chili Sauce
  • 2 tablespoons quality hoisin sauce like Lee Kum Kee or Kikkkoman*
  • 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
  • 1 teaspoons garlic powder or 3-4 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder or 2 teaspoons freshly grated ginger
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Instructions 

  • Rub chicken breasts with olive oil and place in the bottom of your slow cooker.
  • Whisk Honey Soy Sauce ingredients together in a medium bowl and pour HALF of the sauce over the chicken. Refrigerate the other half until later. Cook on low for 5-6 hours or on high for 3-4 hours or until chicken is tender enough to shred.
  • Remove chicken to a cutting board to shred. Meanwhile, strain any excess liquid from the slow cooker into a small saucepan. Whisk 2 tablespoons cornstarch with reserved refrigerated Honey Soy Sauce and add to saucepan. Bring to a boil then reduce to a simmer until thickened, stirring occasionally. Return shredded chicken to slow cooker and toss with thickened sauce.

Notes

*You can find hoisin sauce in the Asian section of your grocery store.

Nutrition

Calories: 384kcalCarbohydrates: 36gProtein: 41gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 121mgSodium: 1256mgPotassium: 758mgFiber: 1gSugar: 28gVitamin A: 57IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 16mgIron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

Course: Dinner, Main Course
Cuisine: American, Asian American, Chinese, Japanese
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About Alyssa Rivers

Alyssa Rivers is the author of 'The Tried and True Cookbook', a professional food photographer and experienced recipe-developer. Having a passion for cooking, her tried and true recipes have been featured on Good Morning America, Today Food, Buzzfeed and more.

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3 Comments

  1. This looks great. One question – the listed ingredients calls for 1 1/2 T cornstarch, but the instructions says 2 T. Can you clarify?

  2. Ok, you’ve got me with the blackberry preserves thing, and black raspberry-blackberry instead can only amp things up, right?