Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken Recipe
This Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken recipe is an easy and flavorful dish featuring tender, juicy chicken breasts cooked low and slow in a rich honey mustard sauce. The creamy finish at the end adds a luscious texture, making it perfect for a comforting dinner or versatile enough for sandwiches, wraps, or salads.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 6 hours
- Total Time: 6 hours 10 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Slow Cooker
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Halal
Ingredients
Scale
Chicken
- 2 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breasts
Sauce
- ½ cup honey
- ½ cup yellow mustard
- 1 ½ tsp. Worcestershire sauce
- ¼ cup salted butter, melted
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- ½ tsp. dried leaf oregano
- ½ tsp. pepper
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ cup heavy cream (to be added at the end)
Instructions
- Prepare the chicken: Place the boneless skinless chicken breasts at the bottom of your slow cooker, arranging them evenly to ensure even cooking.
- Make the sauce: In a small bowl, whisk together honey, yellow mustard, Worcestershire sauce, melted butter, minced garlic, dried oregano, salt, and pepper until fully combined. Hold the heavy cream aside for now.
- Add sauce to chicken: Pour the honey mustard mixture evenly over the chicken breasts in the slow cooker, ensuring all pieces are coated with the sauce.
- Cook low and slow: Cover the slow cooker with its lid and cook on the LOW setting for 6 hours. This slow cooking process allows the flavors to meld and the chicken to become tender.
- Add cream: After 6 hours, carefully stir in the ½ cup of heavy cream directly into the slow cooker and mix well with the sauce.
- Shred the chicken: Using two forks, shred the chicken breasts directly in the slow cooker, mixing the shredded pieces thoroughly with the creamy honey mustard sauce.
- Serve and enjoy: Your slow cooker honey mustard chicken is ready to serve. Enjoy it as a main dish with sides, or use it for sandwiches, wraps, or salads.
Notes
- This recipe can be refrigerated for up to 3 days and frozen for about 3 months.
- If your slow cooker tends to cook hotter or faster, check the chicken around 4 to 4½ hours to avoid overcooking.
- You can substitute French mustard for yellow mustard if desired, but it will alter the flavor slightly.
- For a thicker sauce, reduce the amount of heavy cream or cook with the lid off in the final 30 minutes.
- Use two forks to shred the chicken for a perfect texture that absorbs the sauce well.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving (approximately 1/4 of recipe)
- Calories: 413 kcal
- Sugar: 24 g
- Sodium: 655 mg
- Fat: 20 g
- Saturated Fat: 10 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 8 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 26 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 34 g
- Cholesterol: 144 mg
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