Slow Cooker Orange Chicken

The best Slow Cooker Orange Chicken recipe calls for few ingredients – and is a little sticky, a tad sweet and full of comforting flavour!

For more slow cooker chicken recipes, try these Slow Cooker Lazy Cabbage Rolls, Slow Cooker Apple Pork, or Slow Cooker Cacciatore.

If there’s one constant winter after winter – it’s the use of my slow cooker. Also known as ‘my saviour’, this small appliance fits perfectly with my busy schedule and tackles the majority of the work for me so I can tend to other things in my day.

There’s nothing better than going from school to cheerleading {or Gymnastics, or dance} and coming home to a cooked meal. I still recall how coming home to my Slow Cooker Apricot Chicken cooked and waiting, simply made the day.

Thanks to slow cooker recipes, I don’t have as many frantic kitchen pacing episodes of ‘what to make for dinner‘, right at dinnertime.

One favourite that we have made a couple times this winter is Slow Cooker Orange Chicken. I’d also call this a healthier orange chicken version of a traditional, since oftentimes Orange Chicken is deep-fried.

Yet not my One Pan Orange Chicken that uses oranges, so check that one out.

How to Make Slow Cooker Orange Chicken

You’ll need the following ingredients to make this easy recipe that takes so good you’ll swear its chinese takeout. The full instructions and easy steps to make it (with such little prep time), are below in the printable recipe card.

• boneless skinless chicken thighs, or boneless skinless chicken breasts
• all purpose flour
• sweet orange marmalade
• bbq Sauce
• low-sodium soy sauce
• ginger root
• garlic powder
• 1black pepper
• green onions,
• sesame seeds

To Make: Toss chicken with flour and place chicken in a large bowl. Add remaining ingredients; toss to coat. Transfer to slow cooker; cover with lid.

Cook on LOW 6 to 8 hours (or on HIGH 3 to 4 hours). Remove chicken from slow cooker with a slotted spoon and cut into desired pieces. Then add chicken pieces back into the crock pot and cook with the lid off for another 20 minutes.

Serve this slow cooker meal over white rice or brown rice. Top with chopped green onions and sesame seeds. Enjoy!

To Store:

Place orange chicken leftovers in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 5 days.

This is an easy orange chicken recipe that the whole family enjoys. This recipe is most certainly a family favorite. Just as good as from your favorite chinese restaurant.

This wonderful crockpot orange chicken recipe is full of flavour and is so easy to make thanks to simple sauce ingredients. It’s one of our best easy recipes.

I love the zest of the citrus with the ginger and garlic, its the best orange sauce. This orange chicken is best served over rice (or even cauliflower rice) and a side of your favourite vegetable, Slow Cooker Orange Chicken would also pair nicely with a stir-fry.

This great recipe was inspired by Kraft Canada, with just a couple additions and changes – mainly to suit our family’s taste and create that perfect tangy orange glaze. It’s a little sticky, a tad sweet and full of comforting flavour!

Your entire family will fall in love with this chicken dinner and its flavorful sauce, along with the ease of slow cooking. It’s a recipe that proves that you can make your restaurant favorites at home.

You might want to also check out our hawaiian chicken recipe, for another chicken recipe to add into your dinner rotation.

Slow Cooker Orange Chicken

The best Slow Cooker Orange Chicken recipe calls for few ingredients – and is a little sticky, a tad sweet and full of comforting flavour!

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 8 hours hours

Total Time: 8 hours hours 10 minutes minutes

Servings: 6 people

Course: Main Dishes

Cuisine: Chinese

Author: Tammi

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Ingredients 

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• 3 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs
• 1/3 cup flour
• 1 cup Orange Marmalade
• 1 cup BBQ Sauce
• 1/3 cup low-sodium soy sauce
• 3 Tbsp gingerroot
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 1/4 cup green onions (chopped)
• 4 tbsp sesame seeds

Instructions

• Toss chicken with flour in large bowl. Add remaining ingredients; toss to coat.
• Transfer to slow cooker; cover with lid.
• Cook on LOW 6 to 8 hours (or on HIGH 3 to 4 hours). Remove chicken from slow cooker and cut into desired pieces. Add pieces back into the crock pot and cook with the lid off for another 20 minutes.
• Serve with chopped green onions and sesame seeds.
• Enjoy!

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Nutrition

Serving: 6people | Calories: 555kcal | Carbohydrates: 63g | Protein: 46g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 215mg | Sodium: 1195mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 48g

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