Recipe: Tasty Slow Cooker Barbecue Chicken

Slow Cooker Barbecue Chicken. Doctor a bottle of barbeque sauce with vinegar, brown sugar, garlic powder, and red pepper flakes and pour it over chicken in a slow cooker for an easy and delicious main course. Place chicken in a slow cooker. In a bowl, mix the barbecue sauce, Italian salad dressing, brown sugar, and Worcestershire sauce.

The chicken is so tender and just melts in your mouth with the most amazing flavor! This is a great way to kick off spring and get into summer time with this BBQ Chicken. Moist, juicy chicken is versatile and makes several different meals in one! You can cook Slow Cooker Barbecue Chicken using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Slow Cooker Barbecue Chicken

1. You need 2 of large boneless skinless chicken breasts (about 1.5 lbs worth).
2. It's 1 1/2 cups of ketchup.
3. You need 3/4 cup of brown sugar.
4. You need 1/4 cup of cold water.
5. You need 1 tsp of onion powder.
6. It's 1 tsp of hickory flavored liquid smoke.
7. You need 1 tsp of apple cider vinegar (white vinegar will do).
8. You need 1/4 tsp of crushed red pepper flakes.
9. Prepare 5-6 dashes of worcestershire sauce.
10. Prepare of Salt and pepper to taste (optional, I didn't use any).

In a small bowl, mix ketchup, orange juice, brown sugar, vinegar, oil, parsley, Worcestershire sauce, garlic salt and pepper; pour over chicken. Remove chicken to a serving platter; keep warm. Place the chicken breasts into the bottom of a slow cooker. In a bowl, stir together the ketchup, mustard, lemon juice, garlic powder, maple syrup, Worcestershire sauce, chili powder, cayenne pepper, and hot sauce until the mixture is well blended.

Slow Cooker Barbecue Chicken step by step

1. Place chicken in the bottom of your slow cooker. Wisk together all other ingredients. Pour evenly over chicken..
2. Cook on low 6 hrs. Shred chicken (you can do it right in the slow cooker). Stir shreds into the sauce..
3. Continue on low 1-2 more hrs to really flavor the chicken. Serve on toasted buns. Enjoy!.
4. See notes below ⤵.
5. NOTE: You can totally use bottled bbq sauce instead of the sauce ingredients listed. I'd go with about 1 1/2 cups sauce + 1/4 cup water. I just always have everything on hand to make homemade sauce and prefer it over bottled..

It's easy BBQ Chicken slow cooker style! It's delicious enough to serve as is or sometimes, I serve it as Slow Cooker BBQ Pulled Chicken with some extra barbecue sauce on the side. Other times, I pile it onto rolls for Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Sandwiches. Add chicken and turn to coat. Lay chicken breasts in the bottom of a slow cooker, and pour the bbq sauce on top.