Crock Pot Honey Garlic Chicken Breast

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Bursting with Asian type flavor, this low-fat crock pot recipe is a great start a low-fat diet. An easy to make recipe that uses pantry staples.

This is the start of a few changes on recipe choices for this site. My Internist is requesting a 40-gram low-fat diet. I try to be a compliant patient. So on to better food choices.

Based on an Allrecipe.com chicken thigh recipe. Switch out the thighs for skinless breast and decrease the honey some and increase the garlic (a wife must do).

My Rating

A solid 4.

Recipe notes for Crock Pot Honey Garlic Chicken Breast

This is orginally a much larger, chicken thigh recipe. I cut it down and changed to skinless boneless chicken breast.

Serve with rice and use the sauce as gravy. There is enough “sauce” to cook more meat. Perhaps twice as much but you may want to keep it the same for more sauce for rice during serving. Oriental veggies would go great with this. Next time, I put them in the cooker the last hour or so.

If you want more sauce, add a half to a full cup of water. If you want the sauce to be thicker, then add a tablespoon of cornstarch to 2 tablespoons water and add near the end of cooking. Double the thickening solution if you add a cup of water. Add the water will delute the taste some but there is a lot of taste and deleting some will be fine.

A sodium note. The orginial recipe had a half cup of soy sauce. That was heavy on the salt. I recieve a lot of complaints (see comments) and now suggest only 1/4 cup of low sodium soy sauce.

Just pantry staples you already have.

Start with 1 1/2 to 2 pounds of skinless boneless chicken breast cut into 4-6 pieces. You may use chicken thighs if you wish.

Combine 1/2 cup of ketchup, 1/4 cup soy sauce (low sodium preferred), 1/4 cup honey, four cloves crushed garlic and 1/2 to 1 teaspoon basil. Whisk together.

Spread the chicken across the bottom of a slow cooker. Add the sauce. This is a 3 1/2 qt, but big should be ok especially if cooking a larger amount.

Cook on low for 4 hours.

Serve with rice and use the sauce as gravy

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Crock Pot Honey Garlic Chicken Breast

Bursting with Asian type flavor, this low-fat crock pot recipe is a great start a low-fat diet. An easy to make recipe that uses pantry staples.

CourseMain Course
CuisineChinese

Servings	Prep Time
4	10 minutes

Cook Time

240 minutes

Servings	Prep Time
4	10 minutes

Cook Time

240 minutes

Crock Pot Honey Garlic Chicken Breast

Bursting with Asian type flavor, this low-fat crock pot recipe is a great start a low-fat diet. An easy to make recipe that uses pantry staples.

CourseMain Course
CuisineChinese

Servings	Prep Time
4	10 minutes

Cook Time

240 minutes

Servings	Prep Time
4	10 minutes

Cook Time

240 minutes

Ingredients

1 1/2 pounds skinless boneless chicken breasts cut into 4-6 pieces
1/2 cup ketchup
1/4 cup soy sauce low sodium preferred
1/4 cup honey
4 cloves garlic crushed
1/2-1 teaspoon basil to taste

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Instructions

Start with 1 1/2 to 2 pounds of skinless boneless chicken breast cut into 4-6 pieces. You may use chicken thighs if you wish.
Combine 1/2 cup of ketchup, 1/4 cup soy sauce (low sodium preferred), 1/4 cup honey, four cloves crushed garlic and 1/2 to 1 teaspoon basil. Whisk together. If you're not a big fan of soy sauce then cut the amount of soy sauce in half.
Spread the chicken across the bottom of a slow cooker. Add the sauce. This is a 3 1/2 qt, but big should be ok especially if cooking a larger amount.
Cook on low for 4 hours.
Serve with rice and veggies.

Recipe Notes

Several want the liquid thicker at the end of cooking. You can thicken it some with cornstarch. Try one tablespoon cornstarch in two tablespoons of cool water mix well then add to the liquid in the pot about 30 minutes before completing and turn up to high. When you mix it in either take the chicken out briefly to get all the liquid treated or move the chicken to the side and mix well. And don't forget to go to high for the last 30 minutes or so.

This a bit heavy on the soy sauce and some will not like it. I now recommend 1/4 cup instead of 1/2 cup of soy sauce. With regular soy sauce, the salt is on the high end. I prefer low sodium soy sauce now for this recipe.

Lastly, the model recipe used 1 teaspoon of basil. I think that is ok but my wife feels it is a bit heavy so I made it a range of 1/2 to 1 teaspoon.

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Last Updated
November 5, 2017

Nutrition Facts

Crock Pot Honey Garlic Chicken Breast

Amount Per Serving

Calories 247 Calories from Fat 18

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 2g 3%

Saturated Fat 0.003g 0%

Polyunsaturated Fat 0.01g

Monounsaturated Fat 0.0002g

Cholesterol 106mg 35%

Sodium 935mg 39%

Potassium 13mg 0%

Total Carbohydrates 24g 8%

Dietary Fiber 0.1g 0%

Sugars 20g

Protein 38g 76%

Vitamin A 4%

Vitamin C 6%

Calcium 1%

Iron 0.05%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Bursting with Asian type flavor this low fat crock pot recipe is a great start a low fat diet. An easy to make recipe that uses pantry staples.