Honey Chicken

[southernoracle]

I made this awesomely yummy crock today from a recipe I found on Rival's site.

Honey ChickenIngredients

Comments

[discostare]

I have no way of answering your question, but I wanted to say thank you for posting this.

[superdaintykate]

I wonder if the oil would help keep the sauce from turning too gluey/sticking to the crock. How did yours turn out?

[southernoracle]

I turned out on the thin side, about halfway between chicken stock and spaghetti sauce. It was just the right consistency to serve over rice.

[amethyst42]

I think they suggested the oil because the original recipe was for boneless/skinless breasts. The fat from the skin in your alterations would compensate for the oil.

[srb]

Yes.

There's really no other fat in the recipe and the chicken would get dry and stringy without it.

[hollymayberry]

that's irrelevant really. you have all the sauces and the steam that keep the chicken moist. it's the point of a crock pot. i always use boneless/skinless chicken and it's always nice and tender

[srb]

I disagree - if there's no fat then you're covering dry chicken with a wet sauce. It works, but it doesn't make the chicken taste good. It makes the chicken taste like sauce. That's not tender meat.

The point of a crockpot isn't steam - it's long low heat, specifically to replicate the action of a dutch oven in an oven, and that's historically used for long slow cooking of beef and pork with lots of connective tissue and fat to melt off.

You can certainly use a crockpot to cook just about anything, but it's not the best tool for boneless, skinless chicken.

[dragonfly_lily]

I use oil when I put rice in the bottom of the crock. I mix it all together before piling in all of the ingredients.

[southernoracle]

How much oil do you use?

[dragonfly_lily]

Enough to give 1/2 cup a nice coat--maybe 2 to 3 tbsp.

Yeah...

[dmbutterfly22]

I tried this recipe a couple of months ago. I swear to you, I followed the directions to a T, and when I checked on it when I came home (had only been cooking for 5.5 hours on LOW), everything had turned into black, burnt sludge. The breasts were black hockey pucks. I think something is wrong with my crock pot!