Slow Cooker Orange Chicken - Dump and Go Dinner
4
Servings
7
Ingredients
19
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Chicken thighs slow cooked in a flavorful orange sauce provide an easy dinner option you can look forward to on busy days.
4
Servings
7
Ingredients
19
Comments
Ingredients
- 2 pounds Chicken, Thighs, Boneless/Skinless
- ½ tablespoons Sea Salt
- 6 ounces Orange Juice Concentrate, Thawed
- 3 tablespoons Honey
- ½ ounces Applesauce
- 1 teaspoon Balsamic Vinegar
- 3 tablespoons Ketchup
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Cooking Instructions
Freeze For Later Cooking Day Directions
Easy Assembly/Dump and Go
These directions help you cook or prepare this meal PRIOR to being frozen for serving later (see Serving Day Directions when you are ready to prepare it to eat).
Why would I want to freeze this?
- Divide chicken thighs between indicated number of gallon bags.
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Make From Frozen Serving Day Directions
Slow Cooker
These directions help you cook or reheat this meal AFTER it's been frozen for when you are ready to eat it.
- Thaw: In fridge
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Make It Now Cooking Directions
These directions are for cooking this recipe to serve immediately and NOT to freeze for later.
- In a large bowl combine sea salt, orange juice concentrate, honey, applesauce, balsamic vinegar, and ketchup.
- Place chicken thighs in bottom of slow cooker.
- Pour sauce over chicken.
- Cook on low 6 hours.
19 Comments
Join the discussionHow long does it take to thaw
Anna Lucia – We encourage you to thaw in the refrigerator, and recommend about 2 days in advance.
How many calories is the orange chicken?
Terri – only our diet recipes contain nutritional information on the recipes. However, this is the tool we use to calculate.
That looks delicious! I bet the tomatoey ketchup and orange juice make a great glaze. I make these Asian Chicken Thighs from Taste of Home that have some of the same flavors – wonder if they could be done in the slow cooker? http://www.tasteofhome.com/rec…
I think the above recipe would be easily adaptable to a slow cooker! Just put the chicken thighs in the bottom and the sauce over the top!
I would like to try it out with chicken legs and chicken bone in chicken breast!!
That would totally work!
This is a good sauce with chicken, but we really enjoyed this with beef!
I think beef sounds great too. Thanks for sharing!
6 hours prep AFTER freezing? I need things that take < 5 minutes to prep after they are frozen. What is the point of all this?
Hi Aaron! I totally understand- sometimes you just need something quick and easy. The beauty of this meal is it goes in the slow cooker so you can throw it in the crockpot in the morning and the work is done for you. If that doesn’t work for you, you could always cook it in the slow cooker first and then freeze it fully cooked. Then you could just reheat. Hope that helps!
We loved this! I followed the recipe exactly. I will definitely make it again! It was so easy!
I’m allergic to oranges. What could I substitute?
You could certainly substitute apple juice in this recipe.
Is this skin on thighs or skinless? Does it matter?
We used skin on thighs.
it says 1/2 ounces apple sauce. Do you mean just 1/2 of an ounce or is it more? Also, just regular apple sauce?
Yes, we mean 1/2 an ounce. 1/2 an ounce would be a Tablespoon. Enjoy!