Crockpot Teriyaki Chicken

Today we’re making crockpot teriyaki chicken with just a few ingredients. I’m going to show you how to make tender, juicy, delicious teriyaki chicken, but your slow cooker is going to do all the work.

Why You’ll Love This

I’m going to show you how to make tender, juicy, delicious teriyaki chicken, but your slow cooker is going to do all the work.

Super simple, super easy. It doesn’t have to be difficult to be delicious.

Ingredients

brown sugar
soy sauce (regular soy sauce, low sodium soy sauce, gluten-free kind which is I think called aminos)
rice vinegar
honey
minced garlic
pepper
ginger (half a teaspoon)
cornstarch
cold water
sesame seeds
sliced green onions

Instructions

We’re going to make up our little teriyaki sauce. We’re going to get in a bowl.
We’re going to whisk this together.
Now that that is whisked together, we’re just going to pour it on top.
Add the lid.
I’m going to slow cook this on low for six to eight hours.
Once it’s finished, I will lightly shred the chicken into big chunks.
To thicken the sauce: you use a little bit of cornstarch, you mix it with some cold water, and then you pour it into your sauce. If you’re in a slow cooker, you would just let it slowly thicken in like 30 minutes on high. When you have a five of one slow cooker, you just switch it to a saute setting, and then it gets it done in five minutes.

Cooking Tips

You don’t have to be sensitive and you don’t like ginger. It’s only a half a teaspoon, so you don’t need a lot, but you could. I have several people who don’t like ginger, and they just leave it out, and that’s perfectly okay. You do you, boo.

Normally I would tell you to spray your cup before you pour your honey in, but since I already had all those liquids in the same measuring cup, it kind of helps to make it not stick to your measuring cup.

A regular crock pot will work. You’re just going to let it cook for an additional 30 minutes after you mix in that cornstarch.

Serving Suggestions

We’ll serve it on white rice.

I like to top with some sesame seeds and some sliced green onions if you’d like.