Slow Cooker Zesty Orange Chicken

I’ve got a fantastic slow cooker meal for you today! This Zesty Crockpot Orange Chicken has tons of flavor and is so ridiculously easy to put together.

Basically, the recipe goes like this:

1. Chop up some chicken.
2. Dump a bunch of stuff in the slow cooker.
3. After that’s done, mix together some water and some cornstarch for a thickener.

Eat! You will love it, and there’s plenty of yummy orange sauce to soak into the rice 🙂

And if you like this one, you might be interested in 40 other slow cooker dump recipes that are AMAZING!

Slow Cooker Zesty Orange Chicken

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Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 4 hours

Total Time: 4 hours 10 minutes

Servings: 6

Author: Lauren Cobello

Ingredients

• 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts cubed into 1" pieces
• 1/2 cup orange juice concentrate
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 Tbsp seasoned rice wine vinegar
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• 2 cloves garlic minced or pressed (or 1 heaping tsp jarred garlic)
• 3 Tbsp corn starch
• 1/4 cup water
• Sesame seeds

Instructions

• Place all ingredients in the slow cooker except the water and cornstarch.
• Cook on high for 4 hours.
• In a small sauce pan, mix water and cornstarch together until well blended.
• Add 1/2 cup of the liquid from the slow cooker and heat on medium, whisking often.
• Once it bubbles and thickens, add it back to the slow cooker and mix.
• Let it cook for another 15 minutes and serve over rice and top with sesame seeds.

Have you grabbed my freezer meal plans, yet? I might be biased but I think they are pretty amazing! They have saved our dinner hour for years now. Check them out!