Slow Cooker Chicken Teriyaki

This easy Slow Cooker Chicken Teriyaki recipe is cooked with chicken breasts or thighs with honey, garlic, soy sauce that makes the perfect homemade sauce. Serve it in a bowl over rice with a vegetable like broccoli for a healthy balanced meal.

This homemade chicken teriyaki recipe was the biggest hit of the week in our house!  It is so nice to hear everyone happily tell me how much they like something new.   I can’t remember this much excitement since making this chicken casserole a long time ago.

I really love that I can make the teriyaki sauce so easily without buying a bottle at the stove.  It is so much easier than I thought.  Plus the fact there is no high fructose corn syrup or other artificial ingredients that you may find in store bought versions.

Just load it all in your slow cooker in the morning and be ready for a healthy meal on the table at dinner time.  We love it serve over rice with steamed broccoli. But adding other vegetables like sugar snap peas, carrots and sweet red peppers are great as well.  I cook the vegetables separately so they stay less soggy that if you cook them in the crock pot.

Ingredients needed:

This recipe uses boneless, skinless chicken breasts or thighs (or a mixture of the two). You could also use a whole chicken and de-bone it.

Honey gives the teriyaki sauce just the right amount of sweetness

Soy sauce is another must for this recipe. I like to use low sodium soy sauce. And I have also used coconut aminos for a gluten free version.

Fresh garlic cloves, minced are more flavorful if you have them but jarred versions are just fine too.

I use chopped yellow onion, usually but any onion you prefer will work too

Red wine vinegar is the only vinegar I have tried with this recipe.

Other spices used are ground ginger and a little black pepper.

A little cornstarch mixed with water is used to thicken the delicious sauce.

How to Make Homemade Chicken Teriyaki in a Slow Cooker

In a bowl mix together the honey, red wine vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, onion, ground ginger and pepper.

Add the chicken and turn to coat both sides with the sauce.

Cook in a slow cooker on low for about 4-5 hours

Remove from the slow cooker and shred the chicken with a fork. Then set aside.

Pour the remaining sauce through a fine mesh strainer to strain out the onion and garlic chunks.

Transfer this remaining liquid into a medium sauce pan and heat on the stove to medium heat.

Whisk together the cornstarch and cold water in a separate little bowl.

Once the sauce on the burner starts to boil, slowly pour the cornstarch mixture in, stirring constantly.

Return to a boil and then reduce to low and simmer for about 4 minutes until thickened.

Pour half the sauce over the chicken and mix together.

When you serve the chicken over rice, drizzle more sauce over the top for extra yumminess!  Add broccoli for a perfect veggie.

ENJOY!!

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Shrimp Zoodles are topped with a scrumptious Thai Coconut Sauce

Chicken Pad Thai recipe  is as good as any restaurant version I have ever had!

Beef Teriyaki recipe is served over zucchini noodles for another low carb dinner idea.

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Adapted from Gimme Some Oven