Name: Slow Cooker Chicken Recipe (General Tso’s Copycat)
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h 5 min
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts (cut into one inch cubes); 1/4 cup cornstarch; 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; 1/2 cup hoisin sauce; 2 T soy sauce; 1/2 cup brown sugar; 3 cloves garlic (minced); 3 Tablespoons rice wine vinegar; 1 teaspoon sesame oil; 1/4 tsp dry ginger; 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper (more or less to liking); Optional garnish (green onions, sesame seeds, additional red pepper flakes)

How To Make Slow Cooker Chicken Recipe (General Tso’s Copycat)

This slow cooker chicken serves a mouthwatering dish just like General Tso’s! Tender chicken is cooked with hoisin sauce, rice wine vinegar, and soy sauce.

Preparation: 5 minutes

Cooking: 3 hours

Total: 3 hours 5 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

4chicken breasts,boneless, skinless, cut into 1-inch cubes
¼cupcornstarch
1tspvegetable oil
½cuphoisin sauce
2tbspsoy sauce
½cupbrown sugar
3clovesgarlic,minced
3tbsprice wine vinegar
1tspsesame oil
¼tspdry ginger
½tspred pepper,crushed, to taste

Optional Garnish:

green onions
sesame seeds
red pepper flakes

Instructions

In a mixing bowl add the chicken and cornstarch. Toss until the chicken is completely coated in the cornstarch.
In a medium sized skillet over medium high heat add oil and cook the chicken until the chicken is lightly brown but not cooked throughout. Put in the bottom of a slow cooker.
In a small mixing bowl whisk together hoisin sauce, soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic, rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, ginger and crushed red pepper. Pour on top of chicken in the slow cooker.
Cook on Low heat for 3 to 4 hours or until chicken is cooked throughout.
Serve over rice and garnish with green onions, sesame seeds, and red pepper flakes, if desired. Enjoy!

Recipe Notes

If you are cooking the chicken without browning in the skillet first, when chicken is finished cooking, remove the chicken and add 1 tablespoon of cornstarch to the sauce. Add the chicken back to the crockpot and cook for an additional 15 minutes until the sauce thickens up. Chicken could also take longer to cook, closer to 4 hours.

Nutrition

Calories: 399.29kcal
Fat: 15.63g
Saturated Fat: 4.04g
Trans Fat: 0.15g
Monounsaturated Fat: 6.60g
Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.72g
Carbohydrates: 32.30g
Fiber: 0.87g
Sugar: 21.11g
Protein: 30.54g
Cholesterol: 89.86mg
Sodium: 857.83mg
Calcium: 41.61mg
Potassium: 392.49mg
Iron: 1.55mg
Vitamin A: 33.90µg
Vitamin C: 1.07mg

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