Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken, Moist & Delicious!
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!
26 Comments on “Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken, Moist & Delicious!”
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.