Slow Cooker Chicken Teriyaki
You can throw all of the ingredients in the crockpot in this no-fuss, super easy chicken teriyaki dish!
I have to be honest with you guys. Slow cooker recipes are not easy to photograph. They’re usually blobs of shredded meat and there’s only so much you could do to make it pretty – no matter how much tweezer-activity is involved! But beautiful or not, I still really need to share this with you.
It’s a no-fuss, no-saute, simple crockpot recipe. The hardest part about this is probably peeling and pressing the garlic but other than that, it should be a breeze! Just throw everything into your handy dandy crockpot and you are set. Just be sure to plan about 3-4 hours to really let the chicken get nice and tender so you can just shred it apart to juicy goodness. And with that sweet teriyaki sauce, you’ll want to finish the enter pot clean!
Now how easy was that?
Slow Cooker Chicken Teriyaki
Ingredients
- ½ cup teriyaki sauce
- ½ cup chicken broth
- ⅓ cup brown sugar, packed
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1 green onion, thinly sliced for garnish
- Sesame seeds, for garnish
Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk together teriyaki sauce, chicken broth, brown sugar, soy sauce, garlic and sesame oil.
- Place chicken breasts into a slow cooker. Add teriyaki mixture and gently toss to combine. Cover and cook on low heat for 3 hours and 30 minutes.
- Remove chicken breasts from the slow cooker and shred the chicken before returning to the pot with the juices. Cover and keep warm for an additional 30 minutes.
- Serve immediately, garnished with green onions and sesame seeds, if desired.
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This recipe was awesome! Everyone loved it. My only recommendation would be to incorporate some vegetables to it – maybe some snow peas, broccoli or carrots. Either way, YUM!
We are currently snowed in and I stumbled across your recipe so we had to try it. We haven’t eaten yet but it smells so delicious we can’t wait!
Let me know how it turns out!
If I double the amounts of everything, do I need to cook for longer?? Ingredients in crock pot as I type!!!
I recommend cooking for an additional hour or two. Hope that helps!
Hi, this recipe looks delicious! I am wanting to make this but add vegetables like broccoli, cut carrots, water chestnuts, onion…when do you suggest I add these? I don’t want to overcook them by putting them in the crockpot for the full 3 hours. Thanks!
I’m sure you can add all of the veggies in the beginning – that’ll get them to be incredibly tender and incredibly flavorful. But it’s really up to personal preference as to how tender you want the veggies.
I made this last night, and it was SO good! My kids loved it, too. I will definitely make it regularly. Thanks!
So I doubt you check this in real time, but thought it was worth a shot! I am making this for tonight and with the amounts for the sauce the breasts are not completely submerged. Is this okay? Do they need to be flipped so the top doesn’t dry out? Thanks!
Mandy, I would flip halfway through cooking time just to make sure they get all the juicy goodness. Hope that helps!
Thanks! Just stumbled on this blog today, I will be trying a lot of these recipes!!!
I plan on making this later in the week and was wondering if the 3 chicken breasts in the ingredients is about 1 pound? I have my chicken cut in the freezer in pound bags instead of by whole breast so just want to see if it’d be about equivalent. Thanks!
1 pound should work just fine. Hope that helps!
I have made your Teriyaki Salmon with Sriracha Cream Sauce and I LOVE IT! In fact my husband and children also love it. I was wondering if the Teriyaki sauce from that recipe could be used for this one?
I’m so glad you tried out the salmon! And yes, you can most certainly use that teriyaki sauce but it won’t have that wonderful sweetness that this one has. But either should work out just fine.
I have this in the crockpot right now! This sounds great on a cold, snowy day! I didn’t have any teriyaki sauce so I substituted Panda Express’ Orange Sauce — I think it will turn out just fine — it smells absolutely delicious cooking. Thanks!
I copied this down long hand as the print button did not work. Just wanted you to know. I’m looking forward to trying this recipe. The photo was great!
Can I use frozen chicken breast?
Yes, but you may need to adjust cooking time as needed.
no dice cantidad de pollo cuanto es para que dure tres horas ?
La receta dice 3 pechugas. Tiene razon – hay variedad en cuanto pesa las pechugas. Voy a intentar la receta hoy y te puedo decir por libras de pechuga.
Would using canola oil instead of sesame oil alter the flavor too much?
Possibly. I highly recommend using sesame oil to enhance the flavors of this dish.
I made this recipe on Monday and I just wanted to tell you it was SO SO SOOO good! We had no left overs. And I love how easy it is to make and also for a slow cooker recipe it really doesn’t take that long! I will be making this many times in the future. Thank you! I can’t wait to try your orange chicken next 🙂
Oh yum, my mouth is watering just looking at this! Slow cooker recipes are my favorite 🙂
I love teriyaki and when you throw in slow cooker…this is perfect! Have you tried this with beef? I also wanted to ask if you have tried putting veggies in their with it. I think this would be great with some stir fry veggies but wondering if they would get too soggy cooking for that long. Thanks!
I haven’t tried this with beef or veggies but if I do, I’ll let you know how it turns out!
This look so tasty! If I may ask…. which Teriyaki sauce do you like to use for this recipe?
I love Trader Joe’s “Soyaki”!
Oh I love this!!!
Chung-Ah, this looks amazing! You think this is a bad photo??? Dude. This is beautiful!! BUT, I agree! I always have a hard time photographing savory dishes, not just slow cooker dishes.
Awww! Slow cooker recipe never lets me down and this recipe is totally on my to-do list next week. Yum!