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Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken

RECIPE BY: San

DATE: January 12, 2024

Total Time 4 hours 5 minutes

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Looking for a delicious and easy Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken recipe? This recipe is simple to follow and yields tender, juicy chicken every time.

Using a crock pot to slow-cook chicken in barbecue sauce results in mouthwatering pulled chicken perfect for sandwiches, salads, tacos, or wraps. Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken is fantastic to have all year long.

Our family loves barbecue chicken! It is one of our favorite meals all year long, whether, for a summer BBQ or warm winter meal, we love this saucy sweet chicken.

I am so excited to share this Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Recipe with you all! This recipe is super easy and only requires a few ingredients that you likely already have in your pantry. And clean-up is a breeze since everything is cooked in the slow cooker.

Slow cooker recipes are one of my favorite things to cook during the week – they’ve saved me a lot of time! This shredded BBQ chicken is fantastic because it’s a mix-and-go dish; you don’t have to brown the meat first. All you have to do is put everything in the slow cooker, and you’re ready to go.

Recipe Tips

  • Can you use chicken thighs? You can use chicken thighs; in fact, my husband prefers them over chicken breasts. Just be sure you use the same amount of boneless, skinless chicken thighs for this recipe, which would be 4 lbs.
  • How long does pulled BBQ chicken keep? Store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator for three to four days. You can also freeze it for several months!

how to make slow cooker barbecue chicken

Add the Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce to the crockpot. Add 1/4 cup of water to the bottle of the BBQ sauce and return the lid, shake the bottle, and then pour the remaining sauce and water mixture into the crock pot. This makes sure you get all of the sauce out of the jar!

Next, add the peach preserves to the sauce and mix.

BBQ sauce and peach preserves in black crock pot

Add the brown sugar, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and red pepper flakes to the slow cooker and mix.

Add the chicken to the sauce in the slow cooker and turn it over so the chicken breasts are coated.

Cook on high for 4 to 5 hours or until the chicken falls apart and tender.

Shred the chicken using two forks and pull it apart. Or better yet, add the chicken to your mixer and turn the mixer on low using the paddle attachment and shred easily this way. Less mess, too!

Serve with bread, over rice, on top of a salad or rolled up in a tortilla, There are so many things to do with this fantastic BBQ chicken recipe.

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Best Ever Sweet Barbecue Chicken

Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 4 hours
Total: 4 hours 5 minutes
Servings: 15
Calories: 289 kcal
Sweet Barbecue Chicken is an easy crockpot recipe. The slow cooker leaves the chicken moist & tender. Leave the work to your crockpot, sit back & enjoy.
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Ingredients
 

  • 4 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts about 5-6 chicken breasts
  • 18 ounce bottle of Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 teaspoon onion powder
  • 12 ounces peach preserves

Instructions
 

  • Add the Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce to the crockpot. Add 1/4 cup of water to the bottle of the BBQ sauce and return the lid, shake the bottle and then pour the remaining sauce and water mixture into the crock pot. This makes sure you get all of the sauce out of the jar!
  • Next, add the peach preserves to the sauce and mix together.
  • Add the brown sugar, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and red pepper flakes to the slow cooker and mix together.
  • Add the chicken to the sauce in the slow cooker and turn it over so that the chicken breasts are coated in the sauce.
  • Cook on high for 4 to 5 hours, or until the chicken is falling apart and tender.
  • Shred the chicken using two forks and pull apart. Or better yet, add the chicken to your mixer and using the paddle attachment, turn the mixer on low and shred easily this way. Less mess too!
  • Serve with bread, over rice, on top of a salad or rolled up in a tortilla, so many things to do with this amazing BBQ chicken recipe.

Serving: 0.5cupCalories: 289kcalCarbohydrates: 37gProtein: 26gFat: 3gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 77mgSodium: 503mgPotassium: 560mgFiber: 1gSugar: 29gVitamin A: 152IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 29mgIron: 1mg

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  16. Your BBQ chicken looks absolutely delicious! We love BBQ chicken too and I love using my slow cooker for making it!

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  20. I’m a fan of barbecue, and I’m a fan of crockpot recipes. So this is definitely going to a be a hit in my house.

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  22. This looks amazing and I’m definitely going to give the recipe a shot! Pulled chicken in the slow cooker is one of my favorite things and I’m always open to trying new recipes,

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