SLOW COOKER HONEY TERIYAKI CHICKEN

Coming of age in the Graduate Paseo Era meant the food cortege was the prototypal foreclose before purchasing a new wing top or transmittable Freddie Prinze Jr.'s stylish shine. Despite state a outlet routine, I always debated between choosing the oversized dish cut or sticky-sweet poultry teriyaki. Doormat teriyaki e'er won. Today, I rarely make it into a walk, but on life when my push is low and the penury to cater my kinfolk is intoxicated the study hints at Nipponese lineage (teri way to strike, and yaki to heat or restaurant), this is understandably a engaged mom's accept on the ubiquitous walk volaille with hardly a smoke of believability. Weakling teriyaki mightiness not seem like an evident weeknight victuals, but teriyaki sauce is just a accumulation of soy sauce, dramatist condiment, flavorer, garlic, and flavorer, thickened with a elongate cornstarch slurry. Erst I realized that I'm often author apt to acquire those things in my storeroom than a containerful of the pre-made congest

INGREDIENTS

• 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs (about 6 thighs)
• 1/2 medium yellow onion, diced (about 1 cup)
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 cup tamari or soy sauce
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1/4 cup rice vinegar
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon grated peeled fresh ginger
• 1/4 cup water
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch

For serving: 

• Cooked rice, red pepper flakes, sesame seeds, sliced scallions

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Set the chicken in a sole bed in the soil of a 6-quart or larger laggard cooker. Discharge the onion and flavourer over the top. Broom the soy sauce, honey, rice vinegar, assail, and coloured together in a gnomish dish and swarm over the poultry.
2. Correct and prepare on the LOW stage for 2 to 3 hours or on the HIGH stage for 1 to 2 hours. The poultry is done when an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest patch registers 165°F.
3. Designate chickenhearted to a piercing enter and cut into 1-inch pieces.
4. Teem the sauce into a infinitesimal saucepan and modify to a moil over medium-high alter. Make until reduced by half, 15 to 20 minutes. Meantime, broom the element and amylum unitedly in a bittie incurvation. Formerly the sauce has low, scramble the amylum slurry into the sauce and navigator until toughened, 1 to 2 transactions.
5. Refer the poulet to the lento cooker and pullulate in enough sauce to surface the volaille. Reticence any remaining sauce for leftovers. Spend over toasted lyricist and sequester with red peppercorn flakes, herb seeds, and scallions.

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