Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken, Moist & Delicious!
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An everyday favorite, this slow cooker honey mustard chicken recipe is as easy as 1-2-3. With just a few ingredients, you’ll have dinner ready that’s all made for you in a slow cooker or crock pot.
Easy Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken
This recipe for honey mustard chicken has a great combination of sweet, savory and tangy flavors, all cooked wonderfully slow until the chicken is tender and fall-apart delicious. The addition of soy sauce adds a wonderful touch of savory umami flavor that balances well with honey, mustard and vinegar. Choose either boneless skinless chicken breasts or chicken thighs and you can use bone-in for more flavor. We love chicken thighs! 🙂 And you can serve this delicious slow cooker chicken recipe with your favorite rice, pasta or even in a sandwich. It’s delicious!
Video: Recipe for Honey Mustard Chicken in Slow Cooker
How to Make Honey Mustard Chicken in Slow Cooker
This honey mustard chicken recipe is so moist and tender. You can keep it whole and cut the chicken in chunks and serve it with rice or pasta. Or you can shred it with two forks and make a “pulled chicken” for sandwiches, sliders, tacos or quesadillas. The possibilities for this honey mustard chicken is endless!
Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 to 2.5 pounds (910g-1140g) boneless skinless chicken breasts or chicken thighs
- 1/2 cup (120ml) honey
- 1/4 cup (60ml) soy sauce (or Tamari for gluten free)
- 1/4 cup (60ml) mustard
- 2 Tablespoons (30ml) malt vinegar (or distilled vinegar for gluten free)
- 4 garlic cloves , mashed
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper , or to taste
To thicken the sauce (optional)
- 2 Tablespoons (30ml) cornstarch
- 2 Tablespoons (30ml) water
Instructions
- In a 4 quart slow cooker, combine honey, soy sauce, mustard, malt vinegar, garlic and black pepper. Stir to combine all ingredients together well. Add the chicken and press chicken down to cover it in as much sauce as possible.
- Cook the chicken 4-5 hours on High or 6 hours on Low until the chicken is moist and tender.Stir the chicken about 2 times, if possible, during the cooking and push the chicken down so it's immersed in the sauce.
- Optional: to thicken the sauce (do this about 1 hour before chicken is finished cooking). Make the corn starch slurry: mix cornstarch and cold water in small bowl. Stir the mixture so that all the cornstarch is completely dissolved, leaving no lumps.Quickly stir in the cornstarch slurry into the crock pot teriyaki mixture and combine well so that the cornstarch doesn't thicken and become lumpy. Finish cooking for the final hour.
- Serve the hot and delicious chicken over rice, pasta or in a sandwich!
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Nutrition Information
More Easy Honey Mustard Recipes:
- lazy 5 minutes honey mustard sauce
- grilled honey mustard chicken sandwich
- honey mustard chicken wings
- Here’s some more ideas for honey mustard chicken recipes.
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This recipe was originally published in 2016 and re-published in 2020 with an updated video!
27 Comments on “Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken, Moist & Delicious!”
What kind of mustard is good in this?
It was originally made with regular prepared mustard, however we’ll often use spicy brown mustard or any of our other favorites when making this chicken.
Enjoy!
This looks yummy. I can’t wait to try it. What sides do you normally serve this with?
hi,
can we freeze it?
thank
Tried this tonight and we’re adding it to the keeper list! We had pork chops we needed to eat, so we substituted that instead and it was great. Cut it into bite size pieces and tossed with rice and broccoli for a yummy bowl! The soy sauce really added a unique and interesting flavor.
I put this in my recipe book! Looking forward to trying this out.
Awesome, thank you!
I love this—I threw in some baby potatoes and let it cook on low all morning, occasionally mixing or shredding the chicken. Really good recipe (also, I used a combination of whole grain and spicy mustard, really good).
Awesome recipe!! Very flavourful, moist and super simple to make.
So glad you liked it! Thanks for letting us know.
Dumb question. You put the chicken on the slow cooker raw?
That’s a great question! Yes, it’s raw. But we’ve also tried it with cooked roast chicken and it turned out great too!
Thank you for this wonderful recipe. This looks amazingly delicious and so simple to make! I will be adding this to my family’s meal plan this week.
This looks amazingly delicious and so simple to make! I will be adding this to my family’s meal plan this week.
Thanks Vera and enjoy!
Absolutely adored this recipe.
Tonight I replaced chicken with a pork joint and shredded the meat an hour before it was finished cooking. Absolutely beautiful!
This looks lip-smackin’ good. I made it for tonight’s dinner. It was a hit
Let my slow cooker do all the work lol. The whole family loved it. Will definitely be making this again.
Very nice, full of flavour and brilliantly healthy.
thanks Greg! We love flavorful food. 🙂
would this work with hot English Mustard like Colman’s
Yes, that would work. The spicy flavor would be a nice addition!
Can you use mustard powder???
Hi Jan, we have not use mustard powder and it might not give the same “tang” as regular creamy mustard. But if you try it, please let us know how it turns out. Thanks!
Can you use Dijon mustard? Gonna try this tomorrow
Dijon will give it a nice tang. Because it has a stronger flavor than most mustards, you might want to start with a little less and then adjust to taste.
This Honey Mustard Chicken is a delicious recipe served shredded over jasmine rice with cilantro as garnish. It’s super easy as well.
I wanted to try it in cubes but when I removed the chicken at 3 hours it would not cut smoothly with a very sharp knife. The cutting actually just shredded the chicken. The recipe says to cook chicken whole and then cut into cubes. I think it would only work to do just the opposite. Cut raw chicken in large cubes and cook it in the sauce for a shorter period of time.
I would still rate a 5 star but definitely disappointed that the instructions for the cut version did not work as expected.