Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe is one of the easiest crockpot chicken recipes you can make. All you have to do is throw the ingredients into the slow cooker and let them cook away. Once your slow cooker Honey Garlic Chicken is done, just add a veggie side, and dinner is done! You can also use this shredded chicken to make a tasty chicken sandwich!

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe

There are so many recipes, including this honey garlic chicken recipe that can be made in the crockpot that really there isn’t any reason not to love your crockpot. If you love easy dinner recipes then you are going to love this easy honey garlic chicken recipe.

This honey garlic chicken slow cooker recipe gives you a tender chicken with a delicious sauce, the honey garlic sauce is flavorful without being overpowering. It is the perfect slow cooker chicken recipe that you can toss in the crockpot and forget about it until dinner time. Along with being an easy recipe, with simple ingredients and flavorful the clean up is easy too!

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken in a slow cooker

I love slow cooker meals because they make my life so much easier. I put everything in the slow cooker and let it cook while I go about my day. Come dinner time the main part of the meal is done and all i have to do is make some sides to go with it. My whole family loves it when I make crockpot honey garlic chicken for dinner and I love that it is a super simple recipe and most of the items are in my pantry at all times.

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overhead photo of Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken on a plate served with green beans and a roll.

How to Serve Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe

As a Main dish. I served this the first time I made it as the main dish with veggies as a side dish.
As a sandwich. The next day my husband turned the leftovers into a honey garlic chicken sandwich. Now when we make it for dinner we go with either way depending on our moods.
Over rice. You can also make a chicken and rice bowl by serving the chicken over rice. You can use white rice, brown rice, or jasmine rice.
Add sesame seeds. After cooking and removing from the slow cooker you can also add some sesame seeds if you want to.

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken sandwich on a plate

What to Serve with Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe

The first night I made this slow cooker honey garlic chicken I served it with lemon roasted asparagus, but I think that it would be amazing with lots of other side dishes well. If you are serving this slow cooker chicken as a meat dish check out some of our favorite sides to go with it.

If we are making chicken sandwiches then I go with traditional sandwich side dishes including parmesan garlic sweet potato fries, garlic parmesan potato chips, homemade potato chips, and air fryer steak fries.

spoonful of Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken in the slow cooker

How to Store leftovers

Allow the chicken to cool completely and then store leftover honey garlic chicken in the fridge in an airtight container.

Can I freeze the cooked chicken?

Yes. If you are wanting to meal plan and make it so you can just pull out a meal, heat it up, and get dinner on the table this one freezes great. Just allow the chicken to cool completely once it is done cooking and then store in zip close freezer bags or freezer-safe container

and store in the freezer.

When you are ready to use it you can thaw it in the fridge over night or in the microwave. To reheat we just put it in a microwave safe bowl and reheat it.

What is the best chicken to use for this recipe?

I like using skinless boneless chicken breasts but you can also use boneless skinless chicken thighs

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe ingredients- chicken breasts, grape jelly, onion, garlic, and other ingredients needed to make the recipe

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken Ingredients

grape jelly
soy sauce
boneless skinless chicken breasts
onions diced
fresh garlic minced
crush red pepper or red pepper flakes
honey
green onions sliced

How to Make Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken

Combine the jelly and soy sauce in a small bowl. Heat for one minute and stir till the big lumps of jelly are gone.

Spray the slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray or line with a slow cooker liner.

Add all of the ingredients besides the green onions into the slow cooker.

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe ingredients in the slow cooker

Cook on high heat for 4 hour or on low heat for 7 hours.

Once done cooking, Take two forks and shred the chicken while still in the crockpot.

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe cooked in a slow cooker.

Mix the shredded chicken well with the sauce in the slow cooker.

chicken shredded in the slow cooker after being cooked with honey garlic sauce

Top with the green onions. Serve with a side of veggies or on a roll.

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