This is a very flavorful, healthy slow cooker recipe for slow cooker honey garlic chicken with vegetables. It yields 8 servings of a hearty meal. Each serving includes 1 savory chicken thigh and a cup of vegetables (green beans, red potatoes, and baby carrots)
- 8 chicken thighs, bone-in, skin-on
- 1 lb small red potatoes, halved
- 1 lb baby carrots
- 1 1b green beans, trimmed
- For the sauce
- ½ cup no sodium soy sauce substitute (see recipe)
- ½ cup honey
- ¼ cup no-salt ketchup
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp dried basil
- ½ tsp dried oregano
- ¼ tsp crushed red pepper flakes
- ¼ tsp ground black pepper
- In a large bowl, whisk together soy sauce, honey, ketchup, garlic, basil, oregano, red pepper flakes and pepper.
- Place chicken thighs the bottom of a slow cooker. Arrange potatoes and carrots on top. If you like very tender beans, add them now. Otherwise, wait until the last 30 minutes of cooking before adding the beans.
- Pour the sauce mixture over the vegetables. Cover and cook on low heat for 7-8 hours or high for 3-4 hours. If you didn’t add the green beans earlier, add them during the last 30 minutes of cooking time.
Our estimates assume the use of fresh chicken with only 3% sodium per serving (instead of chicken that has been infused with a high-sodium broth).
Note that sodium percentages depend on which daily reference you use. We estimate that one serving of the slow cooker honey garlic chicken thighs will contain 99 mg of sodium: 60 mg sodium per chicken thigh and 39 mg of sodium per 1 cup of vegetables.
The total of 99 mg per serving implies that this slow cooker honey garlic chicken recipe provides:
– 5% of the U.S. FDA daily reference value for sodium for a 2,000-calorie diet that includes 2,400 mg sodium, or
– 7% of the American Heart Association recommendation of 1,500 mg sodium per day, or
– 10% of the Ménière’s diet recommendation of 1,000 mg sodium per day.
(As is the case with all of the recipes on this web site, the nutrition information provided in this recipe is only an estimate based on nutrition information provided on the packaging of each of the ingredients we used in this recipe and/or on a variety of sources on the web. This information should be regarded as an opinion only, with no guarantees that it is accurate. Obviously, the nutritional information will vary depending on the ingredients and quantities that you use.)
