Our crock pot honey garlic chicken is perfect for any weeknight meal, is kid-friendly, and made with only 5 ingredients! Grab honey, soy sauce, chicken breasts, chili sauce, garlic, and green onions and get cooking.
Crock Pot Honey Garlic Chicken
What is better than having dinner ready when you get home from a busy week? Throw all the ingredients for this honey garlic chicken into the slow cooker for an easy dinner.
The honey garlic sauce for this recipe is flavorful, sweet, and spicy all at the same time. Once you make this recipe, you’ll want to slather this sauce all over everything!
We love slow cooker recipes that have minimal ingredients, big flavor, and easy to meal prep for the week.
Before You Start This Recipe…
what does honey garlic chicken taste like?
This honey garlic chicken recipe is the perfect combination of sweet and spicy. The honey balances out the chili sauce to make a sticky and delicious sauce.
Internal Temperature
Be sure that the chicken breasts have an internal temperature of 165ºF before shredding the chicken after cooking.
What type of chicken Do I use?
We use chicken breasts for this honey garlic chicken recipe. If you are a dark meat kind of person, feel free to use chicken thighs (boneless or bone-in).
Just be sure you check the temperature of the chicken thighs and remove the bones before shredding the meat.
be sure you spray your slow cooker
We always recommend spraying your slow cooker before cooking anything for a long period of time to avoid burning on the edges of your slow cooker.
Can I make this in the instant pot?
You can make a version of this recipe in the Instant Pot.
- Follow are Instant Pot shredded chicken recipe.
- After the chicken breast is shredded, return into back into the Instant Pot.
- Add the soy sauce, garlic, chili sauce, and honey to a bowl and whisk all the ingredients together until the honey no longer clumps together.
- Add the sauce to the Instant Pot and toss the chicken with all the other ingredients.
- Turn on the sauté feature and bring the sauce to a boil.
- Heat everything together until it reaches your desired temperature.
5-Ingredients You Need
You read that correctly, this amazing crock pot honey garlic chicken is made with only 5 ingredients…and chances are you already have them in your pantry! Here’s the line-up:
- boneless skinless chicken breasts
- minced garlic
- honey
- soy sauce (or tamari)
- red chili garlic sauce
Basic ingredients, amazing flavor!
Check it out!
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How to Make Honey Garlic Chicken Breast
It’s quite simple. All you have to do for this recipe is put all 5 ingredients into a slow cooker, turn it on, and walk away!
Temperature + Cook Time
High: You can either cook this recipe on high for 2-4 hours or…
Low: for 6-8 hours.
- Make the sauce. You want to make the sauce in a separate bowl before pouring it into the slow cooker. Why? You want to make sure the honey has dissolved into the other ingredients.
- Add the chicken breast. Spray the slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray and then add the chicken breasts to the slow cooker.
- Pour the sauce. Pour the sauce into the slow cooker over the chicken. Be sure the chicken is covered in the sauce.
- Cook the chicken. Cook on high or on low.
- Shred the chicken. Once the chicken has an internal temperature of 165ºF shred the chicken with two forks.
- Optional thicken. If you like a thicker sauce add 1/2 tablespoon of cornstarch to the sauce and whisk the cornstarch into the sauce. Mix the chicken with the thick sauce, cover the slow cooker and let the sauce thicken.
- Serve over rice. Enjoy!
What Goes with Honey Garlic Chicken?
You can easily turn this slow cooker chicken recipe into an amazing chicken meal prep by pairing it with your favorite grain and stir-fried veggies.
Portion out a serving of honey garlic chicken with a cup of cooked grains and a cup of veggies.
- Grains: brown rice, white sticky rice, quinoa, or cauliflower rice
- Veggies: green beans, broccoli, or peppers and onions.
a couple more ingredient tips
Make it spicy
If you want to make this honey garlic chicken any spicier, add red pepper flakes or a few teaspoons (or a tablespoon if you’re a fire breathing dragon!) of sriracha to the honey garlic sauce.
Add some crunch
Serve this honey garlic chicken with sesame seeds or chopped cashews for some extra crunch.
How to Store Honey Garlic Chicken
Store this honey garlic chicken in an air tight container for 5-7 days in the refrigerator. We recommend keeping the honey garlic chicken separate from other ingredients (rice, veggies, etc.).
Can I Make this a Freezer Meal?
This honey garlic chicken is a great freezer meal if you are meal prepping for yourself or any loved ones.
- Create honey garlic sauce by mixing together minced garlic, honey, soy sauce and red chili garlic sauce until the honey has dissolved.
- Then, place chicken breast into a freezer safe gallon-sized bag and pour sauce on top.
- Remove as much air from the bag as possible and seal tightly.
- Freeze for up to 3 months.
Want to learn how to reheat this freezer meal? Check out how here.
Crock Pot Honey Garlic Chicken
Our Crock Pot Honey Garlic Chicken is perfect for any weeknight meal, is kid-friendly, and made with only 5 ingredients! So? Make your grocery list, head to the store, and cook up this amazing slow cooker honey garlic chicken.
Ingredients
- 1.5 lbs. boneless, skinless chicken breast
- 3 tablespoons minced garlic
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 cup soy sauce (or tamari)
- 2 teaspoon chili garlic sauce
- 1/2 tablespoon cornstarch (optional)
Instructions
- First, create your honey garlic sauce. Whisk together minced garlic, honey, soy sauce, and red chili garlic sauce un honey has fully dissolved.
- Next, place chicken breast on the bottom of your slow cooker. Then, pour the sauce over the chicken.
- Turn slow cooker to high and cook for 2-4 hours OR low and cook for 6-8 hours.
- Once your chicken is fully cooked and tender, remove chicken from slow cooker and use 2 forks to shred.
- Thicken sauce by adding in 1/2 tablespoon of cornstarch and whisk until dissolved.
- Then, add chicken back into the crockpot and stir with the sauce. Cover and let cook for 10 more minutes so that the sauce can fully thicken.
- Serve with your favorite grain and vegetable.
Tips & Notes
- Nutrition is just for the chicken.
- Cornstarch is optional, but your sauce will be thin if you don’t use it.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1/6 Calories: 214 Sugar: 23 Fat: 3 Carbohydrates: 26 Fiber: 0 Protein: 25Keywords: crock pot honey garlic chicken, slow cooker honey garlic chicken
I keep going back to this recipe time and time again! So easy and so tasty!! The flavor is awesome and it’s always a hit. I will say this usually cooks in way less time than the recipe suggests but I just pay attention and turn it off earlier. Delish!!
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I bloody love this recipe so much! It’s truely delicious. So easy to make and pretty cheap on the wallet too which is a bonus. I just have mine with brown rice and some broccoli and it’s genuinely the best lunch. Would be awesome with lots of other sides and in a wrap too. LOVE!
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This is seriously one of my favorites!
Omg. This came out SO YUMMY. I love it! The sauce is to die for. I used my Instapot. Cooked for 8 min, high pressure, meat setting! Then I slow cooked on normal for 10 min after adding the corn starch.
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The Instant Pot worked for me too! I actually started with frozen chicken, set it to Poultry for 15 min, then 10 min on Slow Cook and it came out surprisingly tender 🙂 I also doubled the Chile Sauce for more of a kick…yum yum Love FitFoodieFinds!!! The Sheet Pan Salmon Stir Fry was killer too!
Thanks so much for your tips and tricks!
I followed the instructions, using the ingredients listed and it was a complete miss. I even cooked on low setting for 6 hours and the chicken was dry – one word disaster! Not trying again. =(
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Super easy and it taste AMAZING! This is the first recipe I’ve tried on Fit Foodie Finds and it was by far, incredible! MAKE THIS RECIPE!
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So glad you love it!!
This recipe is amazing & so quick and easy to put together! Definitely will be a staple on my house from now on! Thank you!!!
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This is one of the BEST and EASIEST crockpot/meal prep recipes I have ever made and had. It is a true staple in our home. Thank you Lee!!
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So glad you loved this!!
I do not have a crockpot, only a slow cooker. Can I still make it in a slow cooker?
Yes! They are the same thing 😀
This recipe was amazing, please check out my youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Qm72XSb9a0L4y3_T7atmA/
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This was so good. Also 8 year old approved ☺️ Will definitely be making again!
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I made just the sauce without the chicken and froze it. Should this be froze solid – mine is still liquid/runny?
would you be able to tell me how many ounces is 1/6 serving size? 🙂
Unfortunately we don’t have that info!
This was delicious! So so so easy and perfect for meal prep! Will definitely be making again. 🙂
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Fantastic! It is one of our favorite recipes! I am so glad you liked it!
I don’t have chilli garlic sauce anything g else I can use ? Or can do without.
You can use sriracha!
This was super easy and was great for meal prep!
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Yay! Glad you loved it!
This looks great and easy to make. I do not have a slow cooker though. Do you think the instant pot will work?
Yes! I think it will work just fine!
This looks amazing, just ordered the chili sauce. 3 tablespoons is a lot of garlic, is that right? Video shows much less.
How much does each serving weigh? I used 1.5 lbs of chicken breast. Once cooked, 6 servings weighed out at 2.6 oz each of chicken (I added the sauce after I weighed the chicken). I feel like, based on the the amount of protein in each serving alone, it should be more. I always appreciate the nutrition info. I just wanted to confirm. Thanks 😃
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I made this last weekend and we all loved it! Perfect for leftovers as well. This was so easy to make but full of taste so I will definitely make this again. I found your blog just last week and already tried two recipes and I’m planning next week’s meals by going over your blog.
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YAY!! So glad you loved it!
Looks delicous!! Just curious what kind of rice you used?
We used long-grain brown rice for this recipe, but any kind works!
What is red chili garlic sauce? Would it make it spicy? If so, is there a substitute so it wouldn’t be spicy? Thank you!
Hi! It is like a hot sauce and can be found in most grocery stores in the Asian section. Feel free to omit, but it doesn’t make it too spicy! Here’s a link for the product we use on Amazon: https://rstyle.me/n/dewq5zb6pp7