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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Do you broil the chicken before or after you make it in the crock pot?
after!
I need some 5 ingredient crockpot meals
We love this recipe! So tasty and easy, and I love all the fresh ingredients!
I LOVE this recipe, so easy and very delectable every time I have made it! I do wonder about the nutritional value for some who have asked me, I could not find any on this recipe. Of course it is so good with just green beans and no potatoes or carrots when I want to cut some carbs out! I highly recommend this recipe!!!
no cards in chicken… there are carbs in potatoes … might want to rethink that
you might want to re read the comment jim
So good! I cooked mine in a Ninja which is a stove top so I could brown, and then it turns into a slow cooker. I love it!
Absolutely delicious. I did overcook it, but it was still great. Will definitely make this again.
This recipe was so good. My boyfriend and I loved it. I followed the recipe with a few minor changes to suit my taste. I used boneless, skinless chicken thighs and added about 1 tbsp of Kosher salt. Cooked for 8 hours on low. Next time I would add the green beans sooner as I prefer them more tender. Easy, inexpensive and so tasty.
I mixed most of the finished liquid with a corn starch slurry and made a thick sauce that set it over the top.
Can you tell me how much corn starch slurry you used? I’m thinking of making this without the potatoes and serving over brown rice instead but I’ll want a thicker sauce.
Molly, just take a bit of liquid from pot, whisk in few tsp cornstarch till smooth, then add back to pot. Best to do this on the stovetop as full thickness of sauce isn’t reached until boil after addition of slurry.
Excellent idea! I am going to copy you when I make it tomorrow.
Made this twice now and both times added 1 cup of chicken broth so there is fluid to cover all. Also, I steamed the green beans so I can enjoy the flavor. I don’t always like having all myfood taste the same. I only use organic. Thist ime I browned the chicken first since it was colorless the first time. I consider this an excellant recipe and benefited from the great comments left here (i.e. one wrote to increase the honey to 1/2 cup then later the recipe was changed to that). Thank you for therecipe, the pictures and all the good instructions.
So many negative people. Either you dont know how to cook or are buying bad ingredients. Ive made this recipe at least 5 times now and nothing about it is anywhere as negative as some people are acting like. Sauce is great goes good with the vegetables. I use real honey from a local bee farm. Broiling the chicken makes it crispy and then it falls off the bone. Overall very simple and perfect for anyday!
I have a 3-qt crock pot, so I used two large chicken breasts and halved the rest of the recipe.
Following some of the comments, I used 3 Tbs of soy sauce and filled the rest of the 1/2 cup with water, and used about 1 tsp of Italian seasoning instead of the oregano and basil. I placed the vegetables in the following order: chicken on the bottom, followed by potatoes and carrots, and put green beans on top. I put green beans with the rest of the ingredients at the beginning. I poured the sauce on top of everything and cooked on high for 6 hours (I have a Proctor Silex crock pot) without basting.
Results:
Chicken was my favorite in this recipe. Special thanks to Mandy for mentioning in her comment to put chicken on the bottom. It absorbed the sauce nicely, and reminded me of barbecue chicken.
Carrots and green beans came out great too, although carrots maybe slightly on the mushier side.
Potatoes were too mushy for my liking, and I’m not sure the sauce is a good pairing for them.
Overall, it was a good quick meal to make, but I would probably only do the chicken and possibly the carrots with that sauce again. I would probably just roast my potatoes instead and saute green beans with garlic (I know this defies the whole one-pot meal deal, but it’s about whether your priority is taste or convenience). I would also add just a little more crushed red pepper, a little less soy sauce (I think the 3 Tbsp comments were meant for the whole recipe, and I used it for half of the ingredients), and try cooking it for 4-5 hours. Although chicken was quite nice, it was in some parts a little dry (I did not baste).
Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Hello, I have all the ingredients except for oregano..do you think it would still turn out ok?
So easy to make and family loved it. I used boneless chicken breast. So delicious. It was a little spicy for me, so next time I will eliminate the red pepper flakes.
Can I replace the chicken thighs with boneless chicken breast? If so how many would be good?
I’ve tried this recipe before and we all loved it in my house, I’m using an Aroma rice cooker on slow cook setting for 6 hours min.
Has anyone tried adding rice to the recipe, not sure if it would just burn or fluff up in the juices. Any thoughts?
This is most delicious! (I, too, struggled for a moment with the video showing just three chicken thighs, but forged ahead.) I just piled all the chicken on top of the potatoes and carrots, and later, topped the whole thing with string beans.
Came out delectable, thank you so much for this recipe!! (I did pull everything all chicken and vegetables out of the liquid, and thicken it with a TBSP of corn starch, for a true sauce.) But that’s just me 🙂 And I think the added broiling of the chicken-skin side, or even one last fry in a pan, made it better still.
A really great recipe! I served it over mashed sweet potatoes tonight; it would be terrific over rice.
(Maybe sometimes people forget…a recipe, is not a cooking tutorial; you kind of “learn along the way,” no?)
I’m sorry this recipe has triggered a few horrendous responses.
I loved this. Again, thank you!
I Used pure maple syrup instead of honey and turned out amazing! cooked on low for 6 hrs. Carrots and potato cooked perfectly!
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!