Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken and Noodles

An easy twist on Chinese takeout, this Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken and Noodles will be your favorite weeknight dinner. Cubes of tender chicken with slices of red bell peppers and onions are slow cooked in a flavorful honey garlic sauce and served with noodles for a flavorful and delicious dinner the whole family will love.

 

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe

There’s not much better than homemade honey garlic sauce. It’s sweet and sticky and the rich, robust sauce coats each of the tender chunks of lean chicken breasts making them absolutely melt-in-your-mouth delicious. It’s one of those simple recipes that only takes a handful of basic ingredients, but delivers big on flavor. You can serve it over pasta, rice, or straight out of the slow cooker just as is.

One of the best things about this recipe is that all you have to do is place everything in your crockpot and let it cook away for a few hours then come back to a delicious and hearty meal ready to serve.

Slow cooking almost anything ensures it’s going to be super flavorful. If you love easy slow cooker chicken recipes, you should also check out our Crockpot Chicken Pot Pie, Slow Cooker Pickle Chicken and our Slow Cooker Chicken Teriyaki.

💓 Why We Love This Recipe 

• Great freezer meal: This dish freezes well which makes it an excellent meal prep recipe.
• Easy recipe: This easy slow cooker recipe only takes a few simple steps and uses simple ingredients from the grocery store.
• Delicious sauce: The homemade sticky honey garlic sauce that coats the chicken and noodles is loaded with incredible flavors.

🛒 Ingredients

• Boneless skinless chicken breasts- cut into bite size pieces. You can also use boneless chicken thighs
• Red bell pepper– or you can use any color bell pepper
• Honey-this is the key ingredient that gives the sauce the sweetness
• Soy sauce-gives the sauce a salty balance to the honey. You can use regular or the low sodium soy sauce.
• Ketchup– gives the sauce beautiful color and depth of flavor
• Sesame oil– adds a wonderful nutty flavor
• Garlic cloves- you can use freshly minced or minced garlic in the jar
• Diced onion-you can use dried onion flakes
• Cornstarch and cold water– makes a slurry to thicken the sauce
• Spaghetti noodles-or any of your favorite pasta
• Scallions, green onions or sesame seeds– for garnish

🥄 How to Make This Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe

Step One: Add Chicken and Veggies to Slow Cooker

In your slow cooker place the cubed chicken, chopped onion, and sliced red bell pepper.

Step Two: Combine Sauce Ingredients

In a medium-sized bowl whisk together the 3/4 cup honey, soy sauce, ketchup, sesame oil and minced garlic until combined.

Step Three: Add Sauce

Pour this savory honey-garlic sauce over the chicken and veggies and stir to combine.

Step Four: Slow Cook

Cover and cook on low for 6 hours, high for 4 hours.

Step Five: Thicken Sauce

Right before serving in a small bowl combine the cornstarch with 3 tablespoons of cold water and whisk to combine.

Stir the cornstarch slurry into the slow cooker to thicken the sauce.

Step Six: Garnish and Serve

Before serving, add in the drained spaghetti.

Garnish with scallions and serve.

Store leftover honey garlic chicken in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 3 days. 

Crockpot Honey Garlic Chicken Variations

• Chicken: You can substitute the cubed breasts with shredded chicken, boneless skinless chicken thighs or even cubed pork if you like.

• Noodles: Thick spaghetti noodles work great, but you can even use angel hair or ramen noodles if you like. Instead of pasta, you can use brown rice, regular white rice or even cauliflower rice.

• Ketchup: Instead of ketchup you can thin out tomato paste with a little water and add a pinch of brown sugar to sweeten it.

• Spices: You can add a little bit of cayenne, a pinch of red pepper flakes or sriracha for a little kick.

• Garnishes: I like to garnish with scallions or spring onions, but you can garnish with sesame seeds too.

Can I Put Frozen Chicken in the Slow Cooker?

Technically, it’s okay to cook chicken from the frozen state in the slow cooker but, chicken cooks best when you thaw it first. This allows the chicken to cook evenly. It also allows the seasonings and juices to soak into the fibers of the meat making it super tender.

Whether you’re cooking it from a thawed state or from frozen, for it to be considered safe to eat, chicken should always be cooked to internal temperature of 165° F on an instant-read meat thermometer.

Can I Add Other Veggies?

Of course. Stir in some broccoli or cauliflower florets, other colored bell peppers, thin slices of carrots or snap peas. 

How Do I Thicken My Sauce?

If your sauce is runny, add in a few more teaspoons of cornstarch slurry and allow it time to cook and thicken. 

How Can I Thin Out the Sticky Sauce?

If the crock pot honey garlic chicken sauce is too thick, just add a little water at a time until it reaches the consistency you’re looking for.

More Slow Cooker Recipes

• Slow Cooker Minestrone Soup
• Crockpot Smokies
• Crockpot Beef Stew
• Simple Slow Cooker Chili
• Crockpot Meatballs
• Slow Cooker Southwest Chicken