Slow Cooker Sriracha Chicken Recipe
Slow cooker chicken with sriracha is the perfect slow cooker meal for all of you who love spicy food. The flavors of sriracha hot sauce, stewed tomatoes and slow cooked chicken in a crock pot or slow cooker are amazing. What you have are endless dinner possibilities. The wonderful flavors of this slow cooker chicken recipe are the spicy tang of sriracha hot sauce, stewed tomatoes and sweetness from honey and brown sugar. You can cook the chicken to where it’s tender to be eaten as a whole piece. Or you can slow cook the chicken longer to have it super fork tender and shredded to perfection. That’s what happens when you make chicken recipes in the slow cooker, you can have different textures for different dishes.
Juicy Crock Pot Chicken with Sriracha Hot Saice
The juices from the stewed tomatoes in this slow cooker chicken recipe add the nice light sauce that can be poured over pasta or rice. This spicy sriracha chicken recipe pairs perfectly with hearty starches. Great pairings are with penne pasta and even brown rice. If you only want to eat the chicken when it’s shredded, add them to tortillas for sriracha slow cooker chicken tacos. Or into slider buns for chicken sliders.
If you want extra flavor, use chicken thigh meat. The dark meat will take about the same time to cook and it’ll be super juicy and amazing. If you like both types of white and dark meat, you can use both as well for this recipe. What ever you do, it’ll be delicious. This recipe has not been tested with bone-in chicken yet, but if you try it please leave a comment below for the results. Thanks and enjoy!
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Slow Cooker Sriracha Tomato Chicken
Ingredients
- 2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts or chicken thighs
- 1 onion , chopped
- 3 cloves garlic , minced
- 14 oz canned stewed or diced tomatoes
- 1 Tablespoon fresh ginger , minced
- 3 Tablespoons Sriracha hot sauce , or to taste
- 1 Tablespoon distilled white vinegar
- 1 Tablespoon honey
- 1 Teaspoon sesame oil
- 2 Tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 Tablespoons fish sauce (or use Tamari Fish Sauce for Gluten Free)
- 1/2 Teaspoon sea salt , to taste
Instructions
- In slow cooker, combine all ingredients except for the chicken. Combine the ingredients well.
- Add chicken and push it into the sauce until it's immersed.
- Slow cook the chicken for about 4 hours on HIGH or 6-8 hours on LOW, or until the chicken becomes the texture that you want.
- For a more soft, shredded chicken, cook it longer. Taste the sauce then add additional salt and pepper, if needed.
- Serve chicken with rice, pasta and make sure to pour the delicious sauce over everything! Or shred the chicken in tacos.
jen says
Gonna try this tonight!! But I’m allergic to fish sauce-any substitution suggestions???
Best Recipe Box says
Soy sauce would work as a sub, or even just salting to taste. Either way it won’t taste quite the same but should still be quite tasty.
Danielle Harrington says
Mmmm, this is in the crockpot now. Oh my goodness, I tasted the sauce after I mixed it up. It was good & I like tomatoes with chicken.
Tamika says
I’m in love with the flavor! And the chicken was so juicy! I’ll be making this again for sure! Thanks for yet another great recipe.