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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Thanks for sharing, Chungah! This was exactly what I was looking for to easily (and healthily) feed my family plus a few guests on a weeknight! Unfortunately, I waited too long to start and, therefore, couldn’t use the slow cooker:( My bad. So, I popped it all into the oven to bake at 350* F for 1 hr and 15 min in a covered roasting pan – and I added approximately 1 cup of low sodium chicken stalk to ensure it wouldn’t burn/dry out. To make it go a little further, I cooked some brown rice and made an apple and purple cabbage coleslaw to serve along with it. I strongly recommend the recipe and will make it again! Even our young and picky eaters loved it.
Wishing there was a rating system in place for this recipe. Unfortunately this recipe to me, was less than desirable 🙁 I used chicken breast. Followed recipe exactly. The picture from recipe looks delicious! Mine, everything in the pot was “soy sauce brown” chicken too. Just looked un-appetizing to start. Smelled good while cooking, but the flavor was to me ….strange. It left me wishing the meal would have been on the soy spicy side, or just the honey sweeter side. The combination of both to me was not a match. I did not serve to my boyfriend as I knew he would not like it, so I made him something else. The flavor and look of the meal was not appealing. Sorry for a negative review. I really wanted to love it!
I’m sorry that this recipe did not turn out the way you had imagined. I only post recipes that have been successfully tested in my own kitchen, and as you can see from the comments here, many of these readers have had great outcomes in the final dish as well. However, I understand that we all have different taste preferences, and I really appreciate your honest feedback.
Planning to make this tonight. What do you think of brussell sprouts instead of green beans? I’ve never tried sprouts in the slow cooker but my market did not have fresh green beans this morning. Thank you!
That sounds amazing!
I actually ended up using brussels sprouts and baby portobellos I needed to use up. Delicious! I love complete slow cooker meals on our busy sports nights.
Hi… Made this for our supper and the sauce was so dark that everything came out so dark was difficult to identify what was the piece of carrot or potato… With the meat… Is this normal ? The sauce was very sweet.. Tasted almost like molasses … I cooked thos on low for 8 hours and basted it a few times.
I’m making this today! Looks and smells amazing! I did make a few changes after reading the comments… I diced up some Yukon gold potatoes topped with pepper and diced bacon, baby carrots on top, and bone in skin on chicken thighs on top. Pepper all over the chicken, then I made the sauce… 2 cloves garlic diced, 1/4 cup soy sauce, 1/4 cup teriyaki sauce, 1/4 cup honey, 2 tablespoons of brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon of red pepper flake, 1/2 teaspoon of oregano, 1 teaspoon of basil. Mixed it up and poured all over the chicken. Basted it to ensure it was all covered. Then topped with some fresh pineapple. I will add green beans near the end and broil the chicken to finish it off. Cooking in slow cooker on low for 8 hours. Yummy!
Oops! I put the green beans in with everything else at beginning. They were frozen beans. Will they still be good?
It may be best to take them out and add them in at the end or they will be overcooked.
Just wondering, do you have to use ketchup? Is there a different sauce I can use? I realllly dislike ketchup and would rather not have it.
Unfortunately, without further recipe testing, I cannot answer with certainty. As always, please use your best judgment.
I made this recipe in a 4 quart slow cooker with 5 boneless, skinless chicken thighs, and about 2/3 the carrots and 2/3 the potatoes. I did not use green beans. I used sweet potatoes chopped into about 1″ cubes. I cooked it on high for 3 1/2 hours. Everything was cooked to the proper tenderness. I did baste but in a 4 qt cooker, the chicken was already mostly covered by the sauce. Overall, in this recipe, I liked the chicken the best. It was moist and tasty. The carrots and potatoes were also tasty and while a bit colored by the sauce, it was totally fine — not brown mushiness (for me) as described by a few others. I think I would make the chicken again in this manner but I might do something different for the vegetables. They were good, but …well, I don’t know….they were good and once you bite into them, the carrots do taste like carrots and the sweet potato like sweet potato, but I guess it just depends if you want a ‘one dish’ look or different parts to the dish, if that makes sense. Slow cooker recipes are a little more tricky due to different sizes of slow cookers/different heat outputs, etc, so I think this recipe (that is less uniform wrt blended ingredients than say chili) will differ a little for each individual based on both slow cooker and individual taste.
For those of you who detest the ketchup, just go with it! It’s not that much and you won’t even notice the taste of it in the sauce! When you cool with ketchup it’s a whole different ballgame!
In my sauce I added 1/2 of a squeezed orange and placed the chicken thighs, orange,( with peel)and sauce in a ziplock bag to marinate- about 4 hours.
I’m cooking it in the oven and will broil at the end, if necessary. I’m going to remove the cover the last 1/2 hour so it may just brown itself!
I made this recipe the other night for my boyfriend and I–we both loved it! The chicken was juicy and the sauce gave the vegetables a lot of flavor. The only challenge was the green beans. I put them in the last 30 minutes on high and they were still a bit crunchy. Next time I will just put them in a little longer.
Overall, great recipe and I will definitely make it again!
I was trying to look through to see if this question had been asked. 8 thighs is too much for my small family of 3. Should I reduce ingredients or cooking time if I choose to only do 4?
Yes, it may be best to halve the recipe completely and reduce cooking time as needed.
I’m guessing you only baste the chicken on top? It would seem to be a pain if I had to move the carrots and potatoes to get to the bottom chicken? Curious as to how you do this? Do you leave the chicken on the top and bottom like In the video and just baste the top? Thanks. 🙂
Veronica, you can just baste on top as needed. Easy peasy! 🙂
Made this in the oven instead of the crockpot, with potatoes and carrots and still came out amazing!!!! Everyone loved it!
How long, I want to make this tonight in the oven w chicken breasts. Thanks!
Here’s a thought people – save your comments UNTIL YOU MAKE THE DISH. Nobody cares that you think it looks or sounds pretty and you are just wasting everyone’s time. Second, try not to ask stupid questions where the answer is obvious to the most casual observer. If your sauce is runny and you need to thicken is, GOOGLE “How to thicken a sauce.” Seriously folks, stop wasting everyone’s time.
What about everyone else’s time getting wasted on reading your bossy message? Personally, I’d rather have been reading the comments from people saying how pretty the dish is, and how they can’t wait to try it. At least they’re pleasant. 🙂
Hi – Looks wonderful! I have a 7 quart slow cooker, not 6. I’m newish to slow cooking. Does this make a difference? Can I simply put more chicken in? If so, how much more and do I need to leave it in longer?? THANKS IN ADVANCE!!
A 7-qt slow cooker should work just fine.
Mine did not turn out like the picture at all. Not exactly sure what I did wrong considering the recipe seems rather foolproof. I found no need to baste as the chicken was swimming in the soy sauce mixture the entire 8hrs. It was at least edible but won’t be making again I’m afraid.
I’m having a dinner party of 6 and this looks amazing to cook. Is it ok if I just double the recipe? Or will I also need to add more time to the slow cooker?
Yes, cooking time may have to be adjusted accordingly.
I did not get to taste this. But, I followed the recipe exactly…I travel for a living so, I am trying to load up a crockpot for my husband on Sunday night leaving him instructions to get it started usually around 11 am on Monday when he comes home for lunch. He likes to eat dinner at 7 pm. He raved and raved about it and wants me to make it again and again. Thank you for a fabulous recipe…I hope I get to taste it someday!
This recipe looks really good…I’m interested in more of your recipes…thank you
I only have boneless thighs. Should I reduce time?
Cooking time should stay about the same, but as always, please use your best judgment.