Brown Sugar & Garlic Chicken ~ Slow Cooker

Happy Food Frenzy Friday!! Today I want to share with you an delicious & easy recipe I found while thumbing around on Pinterest.  This recipe is so easy because there are few ingredients and it's cooked in the crock pot!

 

 

Here is how it's made...

 

Ingredients:

4-6 Boneless/Skinless Chicken Breasts

1 Cup Packed Brown Sugar

2/3Cup Cider Vinegar

1/4 Cup Lemon-Lime Soda (Sprite, Sierra Mist or 7 Up Will Do)

2-3 Tablespoons Minced Garlic

2 Tablespoons Soy Sauce

1 Teaspoon Fresh Ground Pepper

2 Tablespoons Corn Starch

2 Tablespoons Water

Red Pepper (optional)

 

Directions:

• Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray
• Place chicken (frozen, thawed or fresh) inside the slow cooker
• Mix together brown sugar, vinegar, soda, garlic, soy sauce and pepper together.  Pour over the chicken
• Cook on low for 6-8 hours or on high for 4 hours
• When done, take chicken pieces out of slow cooker and pull them apart (they may just fall apart on their own)
• Pour remaining sauce into a small saucepan and place over high heat.
• Separately, mix together corn starch and water and add mixture to the saucepan. Mix well.
• Let sauce come to a boil and boil for 2-3 minutes or until it starts to thicken and turn into a glaze.
• Remove sauce from heat and let it sit for one to two minutes (it will continue to thicken as it cools down).
• Sprinkle red pepper flakes on top if desired.

 

Easy, right?!  And it was delicious.  You could almost make a pulled chicken sandwich with it!

I put the extra sauce in a creamer dish so we could pour the amount we desired.

Enjoy!

 

~ Kerri