Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken and Veggies
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The easiest one pot recipe ever. Simply throw everything in and that’s it! No cooking, no sauteeing. SO EASY!
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Just because summer is quickly approaching in about two weeks does not mean that you need to put your crockpot in storage. Rain or shine, winter or summer, slow cookers are meant to be used 365 days of the year, and it comes in really handy when you move into a new home and you have no idea if the oven or gas range is working yet.
Seriously. We have been living in our new home for less than a week and I have yet to test out the stove. But my slow cooker never fails me, especially in this glorious one pot meal, packed with the most flavor-packed chicken thighs and three different kinds of veggies.
The recipe calls for bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs, which I highly recommend using if you decide to broil the chicken at the very end to help crisp up the skin. But this is a completely optional step so if you decide to skip this, it is best to use boneless, skinless chicken thighs (or boneless, skinless chicken breasts). You can’t go wrong either way!
Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken and Veggies
Ingredients
- 8 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
- 16 ounces baby red potatoes, halved
- 16 ounces baby carrots
- 16 ounces green beans, trimmed
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
For the sauce
- ½ cup reduced sodium soy sauce
- ½ cup honey
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
Equipment
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine soy sauce, honey, ketchup, garlic, basil, oregano, red pepper flakes and pepper.
- Place chicken thighs, potatoes, carrots and soy sauce mixture into a 6-qt slow cooker. Cover and cook on low heat for 7-8 hours or high for 3-4 hours, basting every hour. Add green beans during the last 30 minutes of cooking time.
- OPTIONAL: Preheat oven to broil. Place chicken thighs onto a baking sheet, skin side up, and broil until crisp, about 3-4 minutes.
- Serve chicken immediately with potatoes, carrots and green beans, garnished with parsley, if desired.
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It was delicious but i messed up. USE REDUCED SODIUM SOY SAUCE!! Like the recipes says, i ventured over and used regular soy sauce, the recipe itself was delicious and the next time i make it i will follow the recipe. We used boneless chicken breasts instead of the thighs. The chicken turned out perfectly cooked. THANK YOU
The recipe says it calls for 8 chicken thighs, but the video only shows 3. Is the recipe supposed to say 8 ounces? Help! Lol! Making this now.
I’m going to make this as well, did you use 8 thighs or 3? Thanks
I’m about to make this and wondered the same!
I can’t have anything with soy. What do you recommend I use in place of the soy sauce?
I use coconut aminos instead of soy!
Braggs Liquid Aminos.
I’ve never cooked anything before. This dish came out fantastic! No one believes I did it!!! Thanks!
I cooked this recipe on high for 3 1/2 hours then added the beans per recipe.
The carrots and potatoes as well as the beans were all undercooked after 4 hours.
I continued to cook on high for two more hours before the vegetables were suitable to eat.
At that point the chicken was shriveled and dry. WE ate one helping then discarded the rest.
DIsappointed!
Do you think you can use frozen potatoes and green beans? Or should I let them thaw overnight?
I love this recipe! I have used it so many times with my slow cooker. However I recently replaced my slow cooker for an instapot but can’t figure out how to convert how long to cook it under the slow cook option or use the pressure cooker option.
Second time doing this. Threw everything in at one time and made a little more sauce. I tried broiling and not broiling, liked both ways. Would definitely recommend this recipe to others. Be creative, you can change the vegetables, use sweet potato instead of regular potatoes, make it your own.
I absolutely loved this recipe! I’ll admit, I was skeptical of the ketchup in the sauce but I was pleasantly surprised! I made this exactly as directed and it was delicious! I’ll definitely make this again.
My mother gave me a crockpot for Christmas and this was the first recipe I made with it 🙂
I didn’t have ketchup, so I used tomato purée instead. I don’t think the sugar in the ketchup is necessary considering there is honey in it as well. And the purée added some nice, red colour. I also added raw beets.
The only thing I didn’t have was the red pepper flakes, which maybe would have added some more zing.
I am making this one again, and will try the ingredients in the sauce in different volumes.
If I use boneless skinless chicken breasts instead how many or what weight should I use?
Used boneless, skinless chicken thighs.
Cut them in half.
Doubled the recipe.
Sprinkled bone dust (dry rub, goggle it. )
on top. Great for all sorts of food.
All 5 adults and 4 kids loved it.
Not too spicy, not too bland.
Served with salad and ciabatta bread.
Love the quick prep time.
Will definitely be serving this again soon.
Hello I’m wonder g if I can use my Dutch oven and bake this entree? My crock pot broke!!
I doubled the sauce recipe and used 8 boneless thighs. This is actually one of new favorite recipes now. It’s absolutely amazing. I dumped everything at once – cooked on high for 4 hours – low for an hour- all veggies were perfect
I finally made this tonight and it is going in the recipe rotation! Super easy, moist and flavorful chicken breast. It was approved by grandparents to grandkids who all raves about it. Add to that how easy it is and we can’t wait to have it again. I added onions and only basted once. I used frozen chicken breasts and cooked on high for 4 hours. At the end I strained the liquid and everyone loved using it as a sauce!
Easy to follow and turned out great! Used boneless skinless thighs and seared first, then put everything in crock pot on high for 3 hours (could’ve gone a little longer, but we were getting hungry and meat was cooked through). Didn’t add green beans as I did a favorite side dish with green beans, and forgot parsley… still delicious!
Hi! I’m making this now and thawed the chicken out first and only had 6 hours to work with so started out on high for 1.5 hours and the remaining on low. Is this safe? My meat thermometer is broken…
Christine, is there another meat thermometer that can be used? It is very dangerous to eat raw or undercooked chicken due to the possible presence of bacteria such as salmonella or campylobacter.
i made this and everyone loved it even my picky husband i didnt have fresh green beans or frozen so i added a ca of string beans right along with the potatoes and carrots etc the whole
dinner was so good will be making this again
Thank you to the creator of this recipe and a special thank you to everyone who wrote their comments and suggestions. I kept them in mind while I prepared this meal. Honey was short, only had 1/4 cup, cut the soy sauce down to 3 T, added 1 cup of chicken broth and cooked the beans and carrots separate in the microwave (4 min.). I was really grateful to all who wrote those tips, especially because I have made recipes that were awful and with just a few tweaks, might have been ok. You hate to waste your time and money and then get so disappointed! So, everything came out great! It was tasty, the chicken was tender and had good flavors, potatoes were good and of course the veg. didn’t taste like everything else.
A delicious recipe! Have made it a bunch of times now. I modified it a bit to include a little more honey and BBQ sauce, but it is so yummy!
Quick question for you: have you tried this in the Instant Pot and/or do you know the timing conversion?
I actually have not, but I’ve been meaning to give it a try!
This dinner was amazing! I will say this…….I tweaked it a little. For all of the reviews that said it was terrible…….here’s why (in my opinion). I would NEVER put a half cup of soy sauce in any recipe! It’s overkill! So I put 3 tablespoons of soy sauce and filled the rest of the half measuring cup up with chicken broth. It was perfect. My whole family loved it.
I love this recipe! It was so easy to make and the flavor is amazing! My only problem was my green beans weren’t cooked all the way so I’ll have to make sure to put them in longer next time! 🙂