Slow Cooker Brown Sugar Chicken
Ingredients
3 boneless, skinless breasts
1 cup brown sugar
3 cloves garlic, chopped
2 teaspoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
2⁄3 cup white vinegar
1⁄4 cup lemon soda
1 teaspoon lime juice
Instructions
1. Add the chicken into your slow cooker. Cover with the brown sugar, vinegar, garlic, soy sauce, and pepper. Add the vinegar, soda and lime juice.
2. Cover and cook on low for 6-9 hours, or on high for 4-5. The chicken is done when it is cooked through and has reached desired tenderness. I cooked it for 6 1⁄2 hours and the chicken shredded nicely.
3. Serve over white rice with a few spoonfuls the sauce.
Comments
This is adapted from the fantastic website A Year of CrockPotting which is a great resource for anyone who enjoys slow cookery. The original recipe calls for lemon-lime soda but due to the high fructose corn syrup issue, I went with San Pellangrino Lemon soda and added some lime juice. The recipe called for 6 chicken breasts however the breasts I get are usually freakishly large, so I only used 3. 20⁄20 hindsight, 6 would have probably worked fine, if not better.
If you have a sweet tooth, this would be a good recipe for you. It is very, very sweet and, sadly, was a bit too sweet for any of us to want to rush out and have for dinner again.
If I get the urge to make this again, I’ll up the chicken to 6 breasts and reduce the brown sugar at least to 1⁄2 cup if not 1⁄4 of a cup. I don’t think I’ll be rushing out to try it again!
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