Brown Sugar and Garlic Chicken is delicious, SUPER easy and very inexpensive. Plus, you use the slow cooker and I am in love with my slow cooker….there are so many reasons why I try to use it as often as possible!
First of all, it’s very easy to just throw all the ingredients in and let it cook itself throughout the day. Then the fact that it doesn’t make the house 100 million degrees, is a huge benefit! This next meal cost me next to nothing since I already had a bag full of frozen chicken sitting in the freezer!
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Combine all the ingredients in crock pot (except chicken) and whisk together until mixed thoroughly and all corn starch lumps are gone.
Cook on Medium for 4-6 hours or high for 4 hours.
Serve with rice or in taco shells and enjoy!
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What a great dinner! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
We will really enjoy this Brown Sugar and Garlic Chicken, it looks delicious. Thanks for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and hope you are having a great weekend!
Can you substitute something for the sierra mist, like chicken broth? I would have to buy it special just for this recipe. Thanks for posting; making it tonight!
If you have any kind of soda, it will work. Or even just seltzer water. But chicken broth should be ok also.
What type of vinegar? Plain? Apple Cider? Just curious if it makes a difference.
in the picture, it is showing distilled vinegar. but I’m sure apple cider or even rice or white wine vinegar will do.
You say any kind of soda will work….so it doesn’t make a difference if you use a white soda like Sierra Mist or a dark soda such as Pepsi?
Does this go good on hamburger buns like pulled BBQ chicken?
Made this last night. I did the cook on high for four hours option. Chicken got over cooked and I even took it out 15 minutes early to shred the chicken. It smelled great and the taste is awesome. I would recommend lowering the time and checking the chicken early! Will make it again for sure!
Did you use frozen or thaw chicken?
After pinning this a year ago. I’m FINALLY getting around to making this. I didn’t have Sierra Mist or any other citrus soda, so I was going to make something else. That’s when I realized I had ginger ale. BINGO! It’s cooking now, but when I tasted the sauce before I added the chicken, it tasted awesome. The house smells wonderful! The garlic smell is coming out as it heats up and my stomach is growling already.
This is a wonderful recipe and has become one of our favorites! I rarely have any soda in the house, so I just use water with lemon and lime juice. Sometimes I dice the chicken and add onions, bell peppers and broccoli for the last hour or so. I serve it with rice and egg rolls. This one is a keeper!
I made this with my crockpot today. I used 5 boneless skinless kosher chicken breasts, and otherwise followed the recipe to the T (except whole-foods brand lemon-lime soda… because it’s all they have!) The sauce was MUCH to sweet for my tastes, and I ended up doctoring it a lot, and adding another bunch of soy sauce and red pepper flakes for some heat. I also excepted to thicken more than it did with the corn starch, but instead the corn starch just tasted kinda funny to me in the sauce. I’d leave it out next time and figure another way to thicken. I would probably add just a 1/3 of the recommended brown sugar, and like 10 cloves of garlic, something for heat, and possibly works better with bone-on chicken. It only took about 3 hours on high in my crock pot.
Made this for dinner last night. At the end of he recipe, it suggested using it for tacos. Do NOT do that. It was a horrible combo. I think over rice would have been soooo much better. I am eating the leftovers right now plain and they are great! I love the idea serving on a bun with provolone.
The first night it was pretty tangy from the vinegar but mellowed out the following day (I used rice vin).
Sweet and tangy! Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks so much! I was curious about that combo!
Has anyone tried this recipe with pork?
Has anyone tried pork instead of chicken?
Recipe looks yummy, one question though, i have a whole chicken thawing out right now as we speak, May i use it instead of the 5 chicken breast. If so do i need to cut the chicken by sections, or May i just put the whole chicken in crockpot just as it is?
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I made this for my picky family tonight and we all loved it! My husband is not the biggest fan of crock pot meals and went back for seconds. A bonus…my 5 year old and 3 year old children loved this as well! Will definitely make this again! Used sprite and it was perfect, BTW.