Crock Pot Bourbon Chicken

I doubled the chicken and tripled the sauce - we wanted leftovers 😉 I didn’t have dried minced onions so I just minutes fresh onions and added some minced garlic too. Last 30 minutes I added two bags of Asian vegetables and two cans of water chestnuts. I also removed most of the sauce to a sauce pan - brought it to a boil and added a slurry of 3Tbs water w/3 Tbs cornstarch. I whisked that in and let the sauce boil for about 3 minutes and then simmer for about 5-10 more minutes. Then I stirred the thicken sauce back into the crockpot and let it cook for another 20 minutes. Served over rice. YUM!!! Things I’ll do different next time: 1. Lessen the brown sugar as my husband thought it was a tad too sweet. 2. Instead of the two bags of Asian vegetables I’ll do one bag of broccoli and one bag of carrots. Then I’ll get some canned baby corn and maybe some fresh pea pods. Highly recommend!! 😋😋😋😋😋

Our sauce wasn't as lovely and dark as the sauce in the picture. 😞 And I'd definitely recommend doubling the sauce because I don't think one can ever have enough sauce. Tasted pretty good, though for some reason, I wanted "crunch" with it (not sure if that means a crunchy vegetable or maybe water chestnuts or wonton strips? Even the picky eater who dislikes "Asian food" said it was fine. They also asked for broccoli or a veggie with it if we make it again. Side note - I hate slow cooker recipes that call for a cook time on low that's under 8 hours. The whole point of using my slow cooker is to be able to come home from work and have dinner ready. Sorry for the sermon. 😉

Good but do not use a half cup of bourbon as a replacement or substitute like it suggests… LOL I did add fresh garlic and used a low sodium teriyaki sauce.

I had to make some substitutions on this one as I had to use what I had in the house. So I substituted on a 1:1 ratio worcestshire instead of teriyaki sauce. I had to put garlic powder in the amount that was supposed to be for onion powder and vice versa cause I've got plenty of garlic powder but ran out of onion powder. I ended up having to use 3 Tbsp of cornstarch to get any kind of thickness out of the sauce. I cooked for the full 4 hours on low. This is very reminiscent of TGIF whiskey glaze. Very, very yummy. Yummy enough, my old man is no longer fake crying about me turning his whikey into food. Oh, and instead of rice, I tossed in some broccoli florets I needed to use up.

Absolutely delicious!

It was tasty but I wasn’t able to get the sauce as thick and lovely as it looks in the picture. Not sure if I messed something up.

This was gross. I followed the instructions exactly, but adding bourbon is terrible. Stick with the chicken broth