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Why you will love this Mongolian Chicken Recipe
SO EASY! No searing or stir frying, simply add the ingredients to the slow cooker and walk away! THE BEST SAUCE: The sublime sesame boasts a craveable, complex balance of savory, sweet, and tangy with a kick of heat that will have you licking the plate! RICH, GLOSSY SAUCE: No sad, thin, watery sauce here! After the chicken cooks, the sauce is thickened with a simple cornstarch slurry. JUICY CHICKEN: The chicken cooks until fall apart ender while soaking up the divine sauce. VERSATILE: Use boneless, skinless chicken breasts or chicken thighs, add any veggies, serve over rice, zoodles, etc. make it sweeter, spicier, tangier, etc. PANTRY FRIENDLY: This Mongolian Chicken is made with kitchen staples if you do much Asian kitchen (or soon to be staples if you don’t). Once you stock them once, you can make this recipe quicker than picking up takeout! BUDGET FRIENDLY: Feed the entire family for the fraction of dining out!
WHAT IS MONGOLIAN CHICKEN?
This better-than-takeout, swoon worthy Mongolian Chicken is based off my Mongolian Beef, which is one of my absolute favs because the sauce is everything. The Mongoilan sauce is perfectly balanced savory, sweet, tangy and spicy. It’s savory from the soy sauce, garlic and ginger, sweet from the brown sugar and rice wine, tangy from the hoisin (like Chinese BBQ sauce), and is topped off with a splash of sweet heat from Asian Sweet Chili Sauce. Can we say best sauce ever?! Mongolian Chicken is simply a tender chicken version of this Mongolian Beef with a variation on the incredible sauce. Mongolian Beef is a popular dish served in Chinese-American restaurants such as PF Changs and doesn’t actually come from Mongolia. Story has it that a chef in a Chinese American kitchen needed a creative name for a new Asian dish and “Mongolian Beef” was born. Although I love my stir-fry Mongolian Beef version, I loooove my crockpot, and I love my always stocked chicken, thus this Slow Cooker Mongolian Chicken was born.
Mongolian Chicken Recipe Ingredients
This copycat Chinese Mongolian chicken recipe is easy to make and comes together with a few special ingredients.
Chicken breasts: I used boneless skinless chicken breasts. Cornstarch: Helps thicken the sauce. Soy sauce: Use reduced sodium soy sauce so you can control the amount of salt in this dish. Water: Just ½ cup helps make the Mongolian sauce. Brown sugar: You need a little sugar to balance out the spiciness in this dish. Asian sweet chili sauce: Sweet, with a hint of spice and packed with flavor from a combination of red chilies, onion, garlic, Japanese rice wine, brown sugar and fish sauce. Japanese rice wine: Not to be confused with rice wine vinegar. Hoisin sauce: Adds a tangy flavor. Ginger: I prefer using fresh ginger in this recipe. Sriracha: Add more or less to taste.
How to Make Mongolian Chicken
Slow Cooker Mongolian Chicken – stress free and unbelievably delicious for those days when you are juggling a million things or for those nights you want to kick your feet up and stuff your face with fakeout takeout Mongolian Chicken. Win-win.
Tips for making Slow Cooker Mongolian Chicken
Mongolian Style Chicken Variations
Customize heat: I use 4 tablespoons Asian Sweet Chili Sauce and 1 teaspoon sriracha which is perfect for the palates at our house which like more spicy but when I made this dinner for my friend with 3 children under 4, I only used 2 tablespoons Asian Sweet Chili Sauce and omitted the sriracha – so basically, this Mongolian Chicken can be perfectly tailored to everyone so it can be everyone’s favorite fakeout takeout. Customize flavor: You can customize the flavor of the Mongolian Chicken Sauce by adding additional Asian Sweet Chili Sauce for more sweet heat, Sriracha for spicier, brown sugar for sweeter if desired. Add veggies: You are welcome to add broccoli to steam in the slow cooker after you have shredded your chicken but I like to just steam mine in the microwave for 3 minutes – because then it just takes 3 minutes – or add any cooked veggies to your chicken your heart desires – and I can promise your heart will never desire them 1000x more once bathed in this intoxicating Mongolian sauce.
How to store Slow Cooker Mongolian Chicken
This Slow Cooker Mongolian Chicken recipe makes fantastic leftovers as it reheats beautifully and stays tender, juicy and saucy for days! How to store: store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
How to Reheat Mongolian Chicken
How to reheat on the stove: heat a skillet over medium heat on the stove. Once hot, add the chicken, reduce to medium low and continue to cook and stir occasionally until warmed through. You may need to add a splash of water for saucier chicken. Reheating in microwave: transfer chicken to a microwave-safe plate. Heated on high for 90 seconds, stir then continue to cook at 30 second intervals as needed until heated through.
Can I Freeze Mongolian Chicken?
Yes! To freeze:
How to serve Mongolian Style Chicken
Stir Fry Veggies. You can stir fry any veggies your heart desires from broccoli, to bell peppers, to mushrooms, to carrots, etc. Shortcut Veggies. You can purchase pre-chopped veggies perfect for stir fries or use a frozen stir-fry blend or steam-in-the-bag microwavable frozen veggies. Crockpot Veggies. As previously discussed, you can add vegetables directly to the crockpot to cook with your chicken. Salad. You can swap the stir-fried veggies for a fresh, crunchy salad such as Crunchy Asian Salad, Chinese Salad, or Asian Pineapple Salad. You can even add the Honey Garlic Chicken directly to the salads. Fruit. Fresh fruit such as chopped pineapple is always an easy, welcome sweet Asian side. Grilled Pineapple, Summer Fruit Salad, Perfect Fruit Salad, Creamy Grape Salad, and Pina Colada Fruit Salad are also fantastic. Appetizers. For an Asian feast, Crockpot Honey Garlic Chicken is delicious with Chinese appetizers such as Crab Rangoons, Chicken Lettuce Wraps, Pineapple Cream Cheese Wontons, Sesame Chicken Egg Rolls, Sweet and Sour Chicken Egg Rolls or Chinese Chicken Wings. It is also delicious with potstickers, even though they are technically Japanese and not Chinese. Soups. Let the Chinese feast continue with soup! I love to warm up to Egg Drop Soup which is SUPER easy and always a satisfying favorite.
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