Crockpot Sesame Hen – Simple Sluggish Cooker Dinner Concept

Candy, savory, and barely spicy, this simple Crockpot Sesame Hen is a simple Asian-inspired dinner with completely balanced flavors.

Crockpot Sesame Hen

When you love sesame hen, I feel you’ll take pleasure in this simple, fingers off sluggish cooker sesame hen recipe. Making it within the sluggish cooker, the hen seems extra like my Sluggish Cooker Shredded Hen. When you want it extra like a stir-fry, I might follow the range prime recipe. It’s made with boneless skinless hen breasts or thighs, honey, soy sauce, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar and sriracha for that stability of candy, spicy, savory and acid. Serve it over a bowl of rice or along with your favourite brown fried rice recipe.

Why This Sluggish Cooker Sesame Hen Works

I’m not a fan of candy meals as a essential dish until they’re balanced with savory and spicy flavors. On this recipe, the honey, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, and sriracha complement one another fantastically, making a harmonious stability with out being overly candy. After a number of trials, I lastly nailed the right sweet-savory ratio with out counting on an excessive amount of sugar (or honey on this case).

Nonetheless, some suggestions since I shared this in 2013 impressed me to make a number of tweaks to make it higher. I diminished the tomato paste, added contemporary ginger for a contact of heat, and bumped up the sesame for additional depth. I additionally examined this recipe with hen thighs, which turned out to be my favourite—juicy, flavorful, and excellent for this dish. When you want hen breasts, be happy to make use of these as a substitute!

What You’ll Want

Right here’s the components to make sesame hen within the sluggish cooker. See actual measurements within the recipe card beneath:

• Hen thighs or breasts: Use your most well-liked minimize for juicy, flavorful outcomes.
• Black pepper: Provides a delicate kick to boost the general taste.
• Soy sauce: Supplies a salty, umami base; tamari works nice for a gluten-free choice.
• Honey: Balances the saltiness with a contact of pure sweetness.
• Tomato paste: Provides depth and richness to the sauce.
• Rice wine vinegar: Brings acidity to brighten the flavors.
• Garlic: Infuses the dish with a daring, fragrant layer.
• Ginger: Provides heat.
• Sesame oil: For that sesame taste.
• Sriracha: For warmth to stability the sweetness.
• Cornstarch: Thickens the sauce to coat the hen completely.
• Water: Helps dissolve the cornstarch.
• Sesame seeds: Provides a light-weight crunch and nutty taste.
• Scallions: Brightens the dish with a contemporary garnish.

How To Make Crockpot Sesame Hen

Right here’s the step-by-step instructions, see recipe card beneath for the printable recipe.

Place the hen within the sluggish cooker and season with black pepper. In a medium bowl, mix soy sauce, honey, tomato paste, vinegar, garlic, ginger, sesame oil, 1 tablespoon water and sriracha. Pour over the hen and cook dinner on LOW 3 to 4 hours. If you’re not dwelling and want it to cook dinner longer, it will likely be nice.

Take away hen, leaving the sauce within the sluggish cooker. Shred hen with two forks; put aside.

In a small bowl, dissolve cornstarch in remaining 1/4 cup water; add to the sluggish cooker and stir to mix. Cowl and cook dinner on HIGH till barely thickened, about 15 to twenty minutes; return hen to the sluggish cooker and blend nicely.

Serve hen and sauce over rice and prime with sesame seeds and chopped scallions for garnish.

Serving Ideas

• Rice – Serve this over sticky rice, jasmine rice or brown rice. For simple rice recipes do this Immediate Pot Brown Rice. Cauliflower rice would make an awesome low-carb choice.
• Greens – steamed or roasted broccoli, snow peas, asparagus or bok choy could be an awesome facet.

Leftovers

For lunch the following day, I made some lettuce wraps with some leftover forbidden rice. This can preserve as much as 4 days within the fridge in an hermetic container.

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