Crock Pot Garlic Chicken
This Crock Pot Garlic Chicken Thighs recipe is super simple. Yet, the flavor and tenderness of the chicken can’t be beat!
Servings: 8 people
Ingredients
- 5 lbs bone-in chicken thighs
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 cup butter melted
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons garlic salt
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon parsley flakes
- 1 teaspoon dried cilantro leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
Instructions
- Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a skillet over medium/high heat.
- Brown all of your chicken thighs, about 3 minutes on each side.
- Place your browned chicken thighs in a 6-quart crock pot, pouring the remaining butter/cooking juices over top.
- Whisk together your melted butter and spices and immediately pour evenly over your chicken.
- Cover and cook on low for 4 hours.
- If you would like to brown up your chicken, place the thighs on a cookie sheet with a large, wide, slotted spoon and place in your oven on broil (Hi if you have the option of Hi/Lo) for 60-90 seconds, watching it closely.
Notes
- When you are browning your chicken, let it be for the 3 minutes on each side. Don’t bother it at all. It will make the browning process work much better.
- If you choose to use your broiler to brown up your chicken, do NOT walk away. Your broiler can take a recipe from perfection to ruined in the blink of an eye.
- This recipe makes a bunch of chicken, so it would be perfect for taking to a pitch-in or potluck. However, if you want fewer portions, you can easily cut this recipe in half.
- As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly depending on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish.
- All slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline and should always be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.