Slow cooker BBQ Chicken is made with a quick homemade sauce and can be enjoyed whole or shredded for a delicious BBQ chicken sandwich. It takes less than 10 minutes to get this into the slow cooker so you can set it and forget it!
This slow cooker bbq chicken uses a homemade bbq sauce that is super simple to put together, using pantry ingredients you may already have on hand. You can always use your favorite bottled sauce if you’d like. This recipe can easily be doubled or tripled without any adjustments to the cooking time. Be sure to use our scaling feature in the recipe to halve, double, or triple a recipe. Just adjust the sliding scale for the number of that works best for you. Alternately, you can change the serving number after selecting the print button for easy printing.
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High vs. Low Slow Cooker Temperature
Depending on the size of the chicken breasts, it usually takes about 2-3 hours to cook on high. We’ll go for the higher setting when at home while it’s cooking. If you want to cook chicken breasts in the slow cooker on low, set it for 4-5 hours.
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How much sauce vs. chicken:
We use one batch of sauce for 4 small chicken breasts. If your chicken breasts are larger we suggest doubling the sauce. This sauce is so good you’ll want to have extra at all times, we drizzle some on top of the cooked chicken too!
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How to Serve Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken?
We like to put slow cooker BBQ chicken on a kaiser roll topped with coleslaw or some banana peppers and sliced red onion. It makes for one delicious BBQ chicken sandwich. But you can always serve your chicken breasts whole.
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This looks so good. It would be helpful to have how much chicken “by weight” since chicken breasts vary in sizes.
Good point! Recipes like this are very flexible. A chicken breast weighs an average of 1/2 a pound. This recipe can accommodate 2 to 3 pounds.
Great tasting chicken oh so easy to make. I will definitely make this again especially for large family gatherings. My only negative is that the sauce is way too thin and I had to boil it down to use it and add some prepared sauce.
Yet another home run recipe! We halved the recipe, shredded it and served on a bun with a side of French fries. Easy Peasy and very yummy. Thanks once again.
Well, one more home run recipe. Easy Peasy and very tasty. We shredded it and served it on buns alongside some French fries. The sauce was perfectly flavored BBQ. Yum.
Looks so good. Making this today. Thanks
Another great recipe! However, the flavor of the red wine vinegar threw off my tastebuds as it relates to that “BBQ” flavor we are all familiar with. I think next time I will use apple cider vinegar. Using the RWV though, this would be an awesome sauce to use with pork shoulder for slow cooker pulled pork! Thank you, gang. Love your recipes.
This was excellent! Super tasty and so easy. Followed the recipe exactly.
Would this work with chicken thighs instead of breasts?
Just make sure you use boneless skinless thighs.