Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken, Moist & Delicious!
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Today we’re sharing an easy slow cooker recipe and it’s one of our favorites. Slow cooker honey mustard chicken has all the flavors that hit the spot. Best of all, the chicken is fork tender and SO FLAVORFUL!
Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken that’s Easy
If you have a craving for honey mustard chicken our recipe is perfect and easy. Our fork tender and flavorful chicen has a great combination of sweet, savory and tangy flavors, all cooked wonderfully slow until the chicken is tender and fall-apart delicious. Just add everything to the slow cooker, give it a stir and return a few hours later to dinner.
Watch the Video making Honey Mustard Chicken in the Slow Cooker
Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 to 2.5 pounds (910-1140 g) boneless skinless chicken breasts or chicken thighs
- 1/2 cup (170 g) honey
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) soy sauce (or Tamari for gluten free)
- 1/3 cup (85 g) mustard
- 2 Tablespoons (30 ml) malt vinegar (or distilled white vinegar for gluten free)
- 4 garlic cloves , mashed or minced
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper , or to taste
To thicken the sauce (optional)
- 2 Tablespoons (16 g) cornstarch
- 2 Tablespoons (30 ml) water
Equipment
- Slow Cooker
Instructions
- In a 4 quart slow cooker, combine the 1/2 cup honey, 1/4 cup soy sauce, 1/3 cup mustard, 2 Tablespoons malt vinegar, mashed garlic cloves, and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper or to taste. Stir to combine all ingredients together well.
- Add the chicken and press chicken down to cover it in as much sauce as possible.
- Slow cook the chicken 3-4 hours on High or 5-6 hours on Low until the chicken is moist and tender.
- Stir the chicken about 2 times, if possible, during the cooking and push the chicken down so it’s immersed in the sauce.
- Optional: to thicken the sauce (do this about 1 hour before chicken is finished cooking). Make the cornstarch slurry: mix cornstarch and cold water in small bowl. Stir the mixture so that all the cornstarch is completely dissolved, leaving no lumps.
- Quickly stir in the cornstarch slurry into the crock pot teriyaki mixture and combine well so that the cornstarch doesn’t thicken and become lumpy. Finish cooking for the final hour.
- Serve the hot and delicious chicken over rice, pasta or in a sandwich!
If your air fryer is preheated or if you are cooking multiple batches, you may need to reduce timing by a few minutes (unless preheating is called for in the recipe).
Video
Nutrition Information per Serving
Serving suggestions with this recipe
there’s so many ways to enjoy this honey mustard chicken. The first and most obvious way is to take a few bites of the chicken after it’s cooled. You’ve gotta get a full taste of how delicious it is on it’s own. Then here’s some other ideas for serving:
- Tacos! try these in tacos with some salsa and cheese.
- Honey mustard chicken sandwiches or sliders are wonderful.
- Add it to some rice or pasta
- Quesadillas with honey mustard chicken is fantastic.
- if you’re making pizza, add a handful of this chicken with some pineapple. Honey mustard chicken and pineapple pizza is so good!
- Use the shredded chicken to make taquitos or flautas.
Slow Cooker Recipes for Everyday of the Week
- This recipe is shared from our sister site BestRecipeBox.com. If you’re needing an easy every recipe, check that website for non air fryer foods!
- honey mustard sauce recipe in 5 minutes
- slow cooker chicken tacos
- air fryer honey baked ham
- rack of lamb in the air fryer is so delish
- have you ever tried air frying corn dogs? it’s so quick and easy
- this recipe was originally published in 2016 on our sister blog.
19 Comments on “Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken, Moist & Delicious!”
I’m so glad I found this recipe. It’s so good with sliders.
I really loved the flavors of this chicken recipe. Your honey mustard was on point. Thanks for the recipe.
This looks lip-smackin’ good. I made it for tonight’s dinner. It was a hit
Absolutely adored this recipe.
Tonight I replaced chicken with a pork joint and shredded the meat an hour before it was finished cooking. Absolutely beautiful!
This looks amazingly delicious and so simple to make! I will be adding this to my family’s meal plan this week.
Thanks Vera and enjoy!
Thank you for this wonderful recipe. This looks amazingly delicious and so simple to make! I will be adding this to my family’s meal plan this week.
Dumb question. You put the chicken on the slow cooker raw?
That’s a great question! Yes, it’s raw. But we’ve also tried it with cooked roast chicken and it turned out great too!
Awesome recipe!! Very flavourful, moist and super simple to make.
So glad you liked it! Thanks for letting us know.
I put this in my recipe book! Looking forward to trying this out.
Awesome, thank you!
I love this—I threw in some baby potatoes and let it cook on low all morning, occasionally mixing or shredding the chicken. Really good recipe (also, I used a combination of whole grain and spicy mustard, really good).
Tried this tonight and we’re adding it to the keeper list! We had pork chops we needed to eat, so we substituted that instead and it was great. Cut it into bite size pieces and tossed with rice and broccoli for a yummy bowl! The soy sauce really added a unique and interesting flavor.
hi,
can we freeze it?
thank
This looks yummy. I can’t wait to try it. What sides do you normally serve this with?
What kind of mustard is good in this?
It was originally made with regular prepared mustard, however we’ll often use spicy brown mustard or any of our other favorites when making this chicken.
Enjoy!