justJENN recipes

I really couldn’t think of a name for this thing. I make this recipe a lot…but in the oven. Lately, I just haven’t had time. So I thought, what if I threw it all in a crock pot til I got home from work? Hm…I was worried, frankly. But it turned out so amazing that the kids declared it ‘THE BEST CHICKEN EVER.’ What. That in itself was totally worth it. Guess I won’t be going back to oven cooking.

ingredients:
1 whole chicken, cut up
1/2 cup soy sauce (shoyu)
1/2 cup water*
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup mirin (sweet cooking wine)
1 teaspoon pepper

Well, there aren’t really any steps to this. In a bowl, whisk together the soy sauce, water, honey, mirin and pepper. *When I make this in the oven I DON’T use the water, but here in the crock pot I figured it needed a little more liquid.

Nothing like raw chicken staring at you. Ew.

Put the chicken in the crock pot, pour the sauce on top, turn it on low. I am not a fan of the ‘high’ setting, things don’t always come out the same - but it’s all up to the amount of time you have. If you only have a few hours, you can also put it on high for 4 hours instead.

At the end of the eight hours, you should have a nice, juicy, amazingly good piece of chicken. Hopefully the kids will agree.

Ricky Ricardo’s favorite dish. Do you need more of an incentive than that?

ingredients:
4 frozen - skinless, boneless chicken breasts
1 medium onion, sliced
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
salt
pepper
1 can black beans

cooked rice

Put in a crock pot for 6 -8 hours on low. Serve with your cooked rice.

I could end the recipe here, but what else can I say. Hm. Sometimes I throw in corn or peas, just for the hell of it. OH. You can add about a cup of water if you are freaked about not having liquid in your crock pot. I hear you, but since the chicken is frozen, you have a bit of moisture in there to keep you from burning the house down.

That’s it. This is the quickest recipe ever. It’s perfect on those days when you don’t want to do a damn thing and just want to come home and eat. Basically - every day.