Slow Cooker Pulled Chicken Barbecue
Today we’re going to make slow cooker pulled chicken barbecue.
It is an easy homemade barbecue sauce that is then cooked with the chicken so that it keeps it moist and tender and then it pulls apart beautifully and effortlessly with forks.
It makes a delicious sandwich or you can use it as a pulled chicken barbecue plate with all the fixings like coleslaw and mac and cheese and just anything your heart desires.
Why You’ll Love This
It is an easy homemade barbecue sauce that is then cooked with the chicken so that it keeps it moist and tender and then it pulls apart beautifully and effortlessly with forks.
It makes a delicious sandwich or you can use it as a pulled chicken barbecue plate with all the fixings like coleslaw and mac and cheese and just anything your heart desires.
I actually really like this one.
It’s going to develop flavors in our little crock pot and then we’re going to open it up and like lunch is going to basically make itself.
It is better when it is cooked on low.
It is more tender.
It’s more moist as one would expect.
But it’s there’s no love lost because the sauce is great and the chicken is wonderful and then like the onions and it’s just.
Yeah.
It’s just a beautiful pairing.
Ingredients
For the sauce (initial simmer)
- water
- apple cider vinegar
- black pepper
- cayenne pepper
- kosher salt
- butter
- one small slice of sliced onion
- one lemon slice
For the sauce (after simmering)
- ketchup
- prepared mustard
- Worcestershire sauce
For the chicken
- chicken breasts
For serving
- healthy creamy slaw (uses Greek yogurt instead of mayonnaise)
Instructions
- Make our sauce.
- Combine water, apple cider vinegar, black pepper, cayenne pepper, kosher salt, butter, one small slice of sliced onion, one lemon slice.
- Give that a quick little stir.
- Pop this on our stove over here kind of on medium heat for about 20 minutes.
- It’s going to obviously the butter is going to melt the you know it’s going to come to a boil the onions are going to get soft and translucent.
- Fish out the lemon.
- Add the rest of our ingredients: ketchup, prepared mustard, Worcestershire sauce.
- Give this a nice little stir.
- Bring this back up to a boil.
- Place chicken breasts in the bottom of my slow cooker.
- Pour the sauce on top.
- Pop the lid on.
- Cook this on low for six hours or on high for three hours.
- Pull out the chicken and put that on my cutting board here.
- Shred this. We’re going to pull it apart with two forks.
- Mix her into the sauce that was already on my cutting board just so that we don’t waste it.
- Plop her in this bowl here.
Cooking Tips
If you are buying one from the store you probably want to add a little bit of water just to like you know loosen it up a little bit to give it time to slow cook and not get too thick and burn.
Now normally I don’t put butter in my barbecue sauces but for this chicken it’s excellent.
Barbecue sauce that you’re going to use on something else I would actually puree this after it cooks and that way it’s you know just kind of smooth and silky but I actually really like the onion slices in with the pulled chicken.
You could squeeze lemon juice in there if you’d like but the kind of peel it gives it like a little bit of an edge.
It’s just you know it’s just a different take on barbecue sauce.
I would double your sauce if you’re going to do four chicken breasts.
I just I like to have a lot of sauce.
I like my pulled chicken to be like saucy and you know like me.
So double the sauce if you’re going to double the chicken.
That’s my personal rack.
I did not salt my chicken.
Again we appropriately salted the sauce and that is going to season our chicken.
And so I am just not going to stress about that.
Normally I’m a salt monster.
But today it’s it’s being done for us.
Make sure that there’s no dry bits.
It is better when it is cooked on low.
It is more tender.
It’s more moist as one would expect.
You know it’s perfectly cooked when it’s just coming apart.
Just so beautifully like that.
If it’s giving you any resistance at all then it is not cooked and you should definitely cook it a little bit more before you you know proceed.
I find it to be you know you kind of want to let people add the barbecue sauce that they want on their chicken sandwich.
Serving Suggestions
It makes a delicious sandwich.
You can use it as a pulled chicken barbecue plate with all the fixings like coleslaw and mac and cheese and just anything your heart desires.
You can of course take this extra sauce that is in here and pour it over the top.
I’m going to put it in another little dish here so that we can serve it with it.
Obviously you could eat this in any way you choose.
You can make a pork platter.
I’m going to make a little sandwich here.
I just love the crunch of coleslaw with pulled chicken or pork.
So we’ve got our sandwich perfectly layered and ready to go.
It’s a two hand endeavor my friends.
Two hands.