A good friend of mine shared this recipe with me. She has six kids. Six! It’s beyond me how she gets dinner on the table every night for her family. Every day is a busy day. I like to save my slow cooker for busy days, so if I were her, I’d be using it all the live-long week.
What I love about this Sweet Shoyu Chicken is its versatility. Serve it over rice. Check. Make nachos with it. Check. Wrap it up in a tortilla. Check. Eat it plain. Check, check.
Make it with dark meat, make it with chicken breasts. Double check again.
I’ve done it all.
I actually made it twice last week. Once for us and once for my parents while they were here for a quick visit over the weekend (the same weekend I inhaled all these cookies). Saturday morning it took just minutes to throw a few ingredients into the slow cooker and six hours later this sweet, perfectly tender chicken was ready to eat.
Slow Cooker Sweet Shoyu Chicken
Ingredients
6 large boneless, skinless chicken breasts or 8-12 boneless, skinless chicken thighs.
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
1 cup soy sauce
3 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp minced onion
1 large green bell pepper, seeded and chopped
Instructions
Place chicken in the bottom of the slow cooker. In a medium-sized bowl whisk brown sugar, water, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and minced onion together. Pour over chicken and stir in chopped green pepper. Cook on low for 6-8 hours. Remove meat, shred or slice, and return to juices in slow cooker. Serve.
adapted from my friend Manina
Glad you like it! I think I might make some today and I will give your adapted version a try! 🙂
Oh, my. I love how juicy it looks. I adore shredded chicken in the crock. Adore. It.
Do use the juice over the rice?
Yes! You don’t have to but I like to!