Our slow cooker is a life saver – a life line to a hot, comforting dinner that we wouldn’t always have had time to make. Between work, the kids with school and sports and everyday life I can’t believe that we don’t eat macaroni and cheese out of the box for dinner. And I can proudly say that we actually don’t. A frozen pizza or boxed mac and cheese meal doesn’t show it’s face around our house that often at all…we just always seem to be cooking something. But for those nights that we know one of us is running a kid to one field and the other is going to another soccer field, slow cooker recipes are the best. This Slow Cooker Hawaiian Sticky Chicken is one of our favorites – kids included. It’s sweet and tangy, perfect over rice or in a taco or a slider. Or just plain out of a bowl.
Start off by cooking the chicken. get two pounds of chicken in your slow cooker with some chicken broth, garlic cloves and pineapple juice. Cook on high for 4 hours until the chicken is tender and easily shreds. Shred the chicken and drain all of the liquid out from the slow cooker, saving 2 cups for the sauce. Add a cup of apricot preserves, soy and teriyaki sauce, hoisin sauce and Wondra® flour to the liquid and whisk to combine. Wondra flour is a quick way to thicken sauces without having to make a cornstarch mixture, you can add Wondra flour directly into whatever you want to thicken up and it works amazingly well. Next put the shredded chicken back in the slow cooker and pour in the sauce. Mix the chicken together with the sauce so that it’s completely coated and cook for another hour on high.
Serve over hot bowls of rice and use a few sesame seeds and chopped scallions for garnish! Now that’s a pretty amazing looking slow cooker dinner! If you are counting WW points, the point totals are included at the top of this post. Use reduced-sugar jam for an accurate point count.
Here are a few more Hawaiian-themed recipes you might like to try…
Slow Cooker Hawaiian Meatballs Hawaiian Chicken Tacos Cauliflower Crust Hawaiian Pizza Hawaiian Macaroni Salad
