Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken
Buy our air fryer e-cookbooks today When the weekend rolls around our slow cooker bbq chicken is always a favorite to make. With just a few ingredients and some patience, it’s crazy to see how delicious and easy it is to make this tender chicken. The flavors are fantastic, sauce is juicy and flavorful. Delicious crock pot barbecue chicken leftovers are even better for lunch or dinner the next day.
Slow Cooker Barbecue Chicken Recipe
This is truly a no fuss meal because even the ingredients are no-fuss. Grab your favorite bottle of barbecue sauce along with a few other ingredients and voila! Just walk away for a few hours and you can come back to a bit pot of crock pot bbq chicken. Shred it to the thickness you want and you’re ready to feed a crowd or your hungry family.
Video: Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken
Chicken breast or Chicken thighs?
This is always the question: Which cut of chicken to use? And it’s a great question. Our answer is always to use the cut of chicken you’re like most. Just make sure that the chicken is skinless and boneless.
- Chicken breast: if you’re using boneless skinless chicken breast, make sure it’s not the huge breast with rib meat attached. Just one piece of this is gigantic, thick and will take longer to cook. We suggest separating the rib meat tenderloin from the breast, then cutting the thick breast in half. This will help if you’re wanting the crock pot to cook the bbq chicken on high within about 4 hours.
- Brown meat chicken thighs: this is still our favorite cut because it’s more flavorful. But with all the sauce, even the breast meat will be moist when saturated with the sauce. When we make our crock pot mexican chicken, we prefer using chicken thighs.
Best BBQ sauce for crock pot chicken
Use any of of your favorite sauces. Some BBQ sauces are thicker than others. If your sauce is nice and thick, you may not need to make the cornstarch slurry to thicken the final sauce in the slow cooker. If your sauce is thinner, you might need to increase the amount of cornstarch to thicken the final sauce in the slow cooker to your preference. Here’s a few of our kitchen’s favorite & most popular BBQ sauces:
Sugar Free Chicken for Low Carb Keto Diet
If you’re conscious about your sugar intake, then bbq sauce generally has a good amount of sugar. But we’ve tested and tasted several brands of sugar free barbecue sauces and they’re fantastic! Here’s a few of our favorites:
Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken
Ingredients
- 2 pounds (907 g) chicken (boneless, skinless thighs or breasts), about 7-8 thighs or 3-4 breasts
- 1 cup (240 ml) BBQ sauce
- 1 small onion , minced (or 1 teaspoon onion powder)
- 2 teaspoons (10 ml) oil
- 1 Tablespoon (15 ml) Worcestershire sauce or soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) smoked paprika
Cornstarch slurry to thicken sauce:
- 1 Tablespoon (15 ml) cornstarch
- 1 Tablespoon (15 ml) cold water
Equipment
Instructions
- In slow cooker, combine chicken, BBQ sauce, onion, oil, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, and smoked paprika.
- Stir to combine the sauce well and incorporate around the chicken.
- Push the chicken down into the sauce so the chicken is covered in as much sauce as possible.
- Cover and cook on HIGH for about 4-5 hours or about 6-7 hours on LOW.
- Shred the chicken to your desired thickness and texture.
- To thicken the sauce: in small bowl stir cornstarch and cold water until all lumps are removed. Pour into the pot and stir until combined with the chicken and sauce. If needed, cover the pot and slow cook for another 5 minutes or until the sauce is thickened.
- Return the chicken to the sauce and stir to coat the chicken with the sauce.
- Serve in a sandwich, on pasta or mashed potatoes. Enjoy!
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Nutrition Information per Serving
Ways to serve crock pot bbq chicken
With so many ways to serve the chicken, you might want to make it every Sunday to last the whole week.
- Chicken sandwiches! We love buying burger buns and serving chicken sandwiches. It’s a great alternative to burgers for anyone who prefers eating chicken. Add some slaw, lettuce or tomato and you have a fantastic way of serving bbq shredded chicken.
- Sliders: buy some of the sweet and tender hawaiian slider rolls. This is the perfect way to make a big batch of sliders. Just fill the slider rolls with chicken and if you want cheese, add some on top. Bake all the sliders in the oven at 350F for about 5-10 minutes until the buns are warm and cheese is melted. party time!
- Pasta is a great base for this saucey crock pot barbecue chicken.
- For you culinary history buffs, here’s a great article on the origins of bbq sauce
Best Slow Cooker and Crock Pot Recipes:
- Crock pot Chicken taco salad with slow cooker chicken and Mexican spices
- Whole chicken in the slow cooker
- Miracle creamy garlic chicken in slow cooker
- Slow cooker chicken tacos
- All our slow cooker recipes
1 Comment on “Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken”
I recently got a new slow cooker so I tried this recipe out and it was just the best. I really loved making sandwiches out of this chicken.Â