If you love the classic take-out dish of sesame chicken but want something a little healthier, consider this slow cooker recipe where the chicken is slow-cooked rather than deep fried. The sauce is just the right amount of salty and spicy. If you like more spice, simply add more red pepper flakes or my secret ingredient, Sriracha sauce.
Slow Cooker Sesame Chicken
Ingredients
- 4 Chicken Breasts
- salt and pepper
- ½ cup honey
- ½ cup soy sauce
- ½ cup diced onion
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- chopped green onions (optional)
Instructions
- Season the chicken breasts with salt and pepper and place in slow cooker.
- Mix the honey, soy sauce, onion, ketchup, olive oil, garlic, and red pepper flakes in a bowl.
- Pour over chicken.
- Cook on low for 4 hours, or high for 2 hours.
- Remove chicken from slow cooker, leaving the sauce behind.
- Dissolve the cornstarch in ⅓ cup of water, and pour into slow cooker. Cook the sauce for 10 minutes so it can thicken.
- As the sauce cooks, slice the chicken.
- Return the chicken to the pot and coat with sauce.
- Serve chicken over rice.
- Sprinkle chicken with sesame seeds and green onion.
I love sesame, but I’m also allergic , which is a bummer! I sometimes eat them anyway and this sounds like a dish that I would enjoy!
Use toasted almonds
looks like a yummy recipe and using a slow cooker win win!
Looks delicious, and love that you can put it in the slow cooker and forget about it til it is time to eat.
I LOVE rice and this is something that I would eat everyday!. Now I’m hungry, thanx LOL. Maybe might try this tonight!
If you can make these amazing meals you would have NO trouble making bread from scratch! Give it a whirl – it’s a very creative process.
LOL OK fair enough. I’m quite loving my bread maker though and it makes me feel like I’m actually a bread baker! 😛
This recipe looks so good! I’m printing it now! (And I’m not going to complain about the cold in Alberta anymore 🙂
Oh wow that looks so delicious. I was thinking of having rice and something tomorrow and this recipe just might be it. Thanks for sharing.
Did you go for it?
Sounds yummy!
I would have to leave out the red pepper flakes. Otherwise, sounds yummy!
This sounds good. I might try it with some ginger instead of the red pepper flakes.
Sounds yummy, will have to try this 🙂
My family would love this dish.
oh wow! i wish i had a slow cooker 🙁 but this looks absolutely delicious!!
Yum!
That looks super easy and oh so yummy. Guess what we’re having next?
I want to make this but I don’t have a slow cooker. 🙁
That looks amazing. I love your slow cooker recipes.
That sounds delicious!
Oooh! I live in northern Ontario and was complaining about a recent -32C. But you win ;0
I’m trying to make more slow cooker recipes, and love the sesame chicken idea. I’ll be trying it.
This looks delish! With all the cold weather we’ve been having this would make the perfect dinner!
This look delicious, sesame chicken is one of my moms favorites so I may have to whip it up one night shes over!
Hey, I like this recipe. Looks like it would be easy to portion and freeze for busy lunch days. And easily combined with multiple veggies.. thanks.
Looks tasty, Thanks for sharing 🙂
Mmmmm this dish looks fantastic, it’s going on my must try list.
Looks good and simple. I’m a little uncertain of the ketchup in the recipe, but I’ll give it try.
You could also use tomato sauce, but I find ketchup is what I always have in the house!
this looks tasty and simple! yummy
Looks delicious,thanks for sharing
I going to try this with brown rice. Thank you for this idea
thanks for the recipe! i wish i had a slow cooker
I like cooking with sesame seeds, this looks like a great slow cooker recipe.
This looks so delicious and I always buy chicken breasts and then look for some thing like this to do with them.So for me it’s look no further.I also like that it’s easy to do and uses products that I have in my house.Thanks for sharing this wiith us.
I love to see new chicken recipes.
This looks delicious – will definitely have to give this one a try.
This sounds perfect for large crowd next weekend. Aside from prep, not much else to do but sit down and eat! It sounds delicious too!
Looks amazing!!
I will add julienned carrots
a must try
Oh yes! This looks divine! A new addition to my slow cooker arsenal.
Looks delicious,today we have chili in the cooker
Sounds really yummy! Love Slow Cooker meals! Thanks for the recipe!
this looks amazing!! i requested a slow cooker for Christmas so hoping I can start making these meals 🙂
I love take-out sesame chicken but not all the salt. I can’t wait to try this homemade version!
time to pull this one out again
This is comfort food. I can easily pack this up for lunches as well.
I have to give this a try
That looks mouth watering. I’m a big fan of chicken and rice. Gonna have to try this some time.
perfect recipes for leftover turkey
We are having this today with leftover chicken
We just had something very similar for dinner last night, but without the rice– we wrapped the chicken in romaine lettuce leaves for a healthier meal & it was spectacular.
Rice is a staple in our home ad I am always looking for slow-cooker recipes,thanks for sharing this one its sure to be a hit
This looks super yummy. I don’t use my slowcooker nearly enough. This may make me dust it off.
This looks so delicious , I would love to try this.
Sounds delicious. I need some ideas right now, especially for my slow cooker.