A Tasty Dinner - Crock Pot Honey Chicken

Might I start off that I have never been good at New Year's Resolutions and this blog was one of them.

Okay, so every Monday night a couple of (usually) very hungry guys come over for dinner.  This past week I decided to try out my new crock pot I got at an after Christmas sale.  Only $20 with coupon!

The ingredients to the recipe weren't crazy extravagant and it didn't take that long to make in the crock pot either.  There was however a funny smell coming from the crock pot because it was my first time to cook in it but it didn't affect the taste of the food at all.

Here is the recipe:

Honey Sauced Chicken

Yield : 2

3/4 pound chicken (of your choice)

1/2 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. black pepper

1/2 cup honey

1/4 cup soy sauce

1/8 cup chopped onion (or 1/16 cup onion flakes)

1/8 cup ketchup

1 Tbs. vegetable oil

1 clove garlic, minced

1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes

Season both sides of chicken with salt and pepper, put into crock pot. In a small bowl, combine honey, soy sauce, onion, ketchup, oil, garlic and pepper flakes. Pour over chicken. Cook on low for 3 hours or on high 1 1/2 hours. Chicken into bite size pieces, then return to pot and toss with sauce. Serve over rice or noodles.

Tada!  This is the finished scrumptious product!  The dudes devoured it and the dish got many compliments.  I will definitely be making this again, just including a little more time ;)

**Caution** If you double (or triple) the recipe make sure to add time.  I totally forgot to add time and ended up having to cook the chicken in the oven to speed up the cooking process.  That worked fine as well but if you are expecting the chicken to be done at a certain time remember that.

How long did it take? - If you follow the recipe only 1 1/2 hours and it took about the same amount of time for me as well but I cooked the chicken in the oven for about 30 minutes.

  Supplies Needed? - A crock pot, a grocery store and hungry mouths

  How much did it cost? - crock pot - $20, food - I only had to buy chicken, an onion and red pepper flakes so it only cost about $8, TOTAL = $28.

  Tips on how to make it easier/better? - Most of these ingredients you probably have lying around the house and most of you probably already have a crock pot as well.  This is a cheap and easy recipe.

Here is the 30 minute version

Dice chicken and season both sides with salt and pepper, place in 8x8 pan. Pour sauce over chicken and bake at 350 for 20 minutes, stirring after 10 minutes.

 Did you like this project or not? - Yes, loved it!  It was easy and tasty.  I combined it with cilantro lime rice and the two went together perfectly.

The crock pot Honey Chicken came from : http://mmmcafe.blogspot.com/2010/01/honey-sauced-chicken.html

The Cilantro Lime Rice can be found at: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2009/03/chipotle-cilantro-lime-rice-4-pts.html

Enjoy some tasty food!

-Kiana