crock pot & dinner 18 Dec 2008 12:49 am
Crock Pot Honey Shoyu Chicken
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.
on 19 Dec 2008 at 12:39 am 1.camille said …
okay, that picture of the “BEST CHICKEN EVER” alone.. is making me want to buy a crock pot. any recommendations?
on 19 Dec 2008 at 5:13 pm 2.Jae said …
i just bought my very first crock pot. ooh…i’m going to try this recipe! looks very delish!
on 19 Dec 2008 at 11:26 pm 3.justJENN said …
Camille, I just saw one on tv that has a latch so you can carry it and go places. Imagine the possibilities! For a car ride! Bowling! Long walks on the beach! Kidding, but the latch certainly seemed like a good idea.
on 29 Dec 2008 at 3:19 pm 4.Dp said …
Just took this out of the crockpot and it smells DELICIOUS. Thank you!
on 12 Jan 2009 at 8:17 pm 5.So-niele :: Cooking for 3.5 :: January :: 2009 said …
[...] the chicken is in the reefer. I’m not sure what I might do with it just yet, thinking maybe this. I’m on kick with using the Crock Pot again. I like 1 dish meals sometimes. Less clean up is [...]
on 30 Jun 2009 at 7:47 pm 6.dvl said …
made this today with chicken thighs and used ponzu in lieu of mirin and the fam said it was epic nom nom nom! this is our new favorite chicken crock pot recipe.
ps. see you in sd in a couple of weeks!