Best Slow Cooker Hawaiian Chicken
35 Comments Mar 31, 2022
Updated Jan 27, 2023
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This Slow Cooker Hawaiian Chicken has a sweet and tangy sauce along with onion and green bell pepper! Great over brown rice and with steamed green vegetables.
Easy chicken recipes are what the slow cooker is all about! Also, try my fiesta chicken, sweet and sour chicken, Mongolian chicken or Hawaiian haystacks next.
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I enjoy easy recipes like this that don’t need much work. After I get home, I put on a pot of rice and can get dinner served right away. Crockpot Hawaiian chicken will be one of your favorite healthy dinners!
When I think of Hawaiian recipes, I think of pineapple, green pepper, and a sweet sauce, this chicken recipe checks all of those boxes.
Recipe Ingredients
- Chicken breasts – Boneless skinless chicken breasts are great for this recipe. They stay moist in all the sauce. Another option is chicken tenderloins.
- Bell pepper – Green bell pepper is a staple in Hawaiian recipes.
- Pineapple – Crushed pineapple will sweeten and flavor the sauce; drain pineapple chunks. You can add the pineapple juice to the dish, though the sauce will be on the runny side.
- Bacon – Cooked and crumbled bacon adds a slightly smokey flavor to the recipe.
- Sauce ingredients – For the sauce, you will need barbecue sauce, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, and pepper.
Step-by-Step Directions
Step One – Add the chicken breasts to the slow cooker.
Step Two – Sprinkle over the pepper and garlic powder. Add the bell pepper, crushed pineapple, barbecue sauce, cooked bacon, soy sauce, and Worcestershire sauce. Mix everything.
Step Three – Cook on low for 6 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time. The chicken will marinate as it slowly cooks.
Step Four – If desired, shred the chicken, or serve the chicken breasts whole or halved.
How to serve
- On Rice – Serve the chicken over rice along with the Hawaiian sauce. For a healthy option, serve with brown rice, or you can make white rice or even coconut rice. Great with a green side dish such as steam broccoli and topped your dish with sliced green onions.
- With Mashed Potaotes – You may not think of serving this chicken with mashed potatoes, but it is good! The salty mashed potatoes go great with the sweet and tangy chicken.
- As a Sandwich – Serve the shredded crockpot bbq Hawaiian chicken on hamburger buns with macaroni salad.
Recipe FAQs
You can use boneless skinless chicken thighs in this recipe with no issues. You may need to degrease the sauce before serving by laying paper towels over it to soak up the grease.
If you want to make this even healthier, leave out the bacon. The sauce still has plenty of flavor without it.
Yes, add one sliced jalapeno to make spicy Hawaiian chicken. Or you can add a couple of pinches of cayenne pepper.
You can add other vegetables such as sweet yellow onion, thickly sliced carrots, green beans, and even water chestnuts.
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Slow Cooker Hawaiian Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breasts, (can use chicken tenderloins or boneless skinless chicken thighs)
- 5 slices bacon,, sliced and cooked
- 1 green bell pepper,, diced
- 1 cup barbecue sauce, (I use Sweet Baby Rays)
- 2 tsp. soy sauce
- 2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- 20 oz. can crushed pineapple,, drained very well
Instructions
- Add the chicken breast to the slow cooker. Add remaining ingredients and stir the toppings on top of the chicken to combine.
- Cover and cook on low for 6 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time.
- If desired shred the chicken. Serve over white or brown rice, or hamburger buns. Enjoy!
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Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
Hi
Can I double Up the recipe,?
Thanks
Yes, you can double this type of recipe with no issues.
Can I use legs & thighs and degrease sauce after it is done cooking?
yes, that will work great.
How can I make the sauce thicker?
You can mix 2 Tablespoons of cornstarch with 2 Tablespoons of water and add to the finished dish.
Can I use thick cut Pork Chops in this . Would I have to adjust the time ?
Those will work with the same amount of time.
When is the bacon added? Recipe doesn’t specify if it’s at the beginning ( so cooks with the already cooked bacon for the 5-6 hours) or at the end.
Add it at the beginning with everything else.
Very very delicious. I did add my own flare to it. I used pineapple chunks instead of crushed. I mixed my “sauce” ingredients separately in a bowl, then added the pineapple chunks to it and used my emulsion blender to make the sauce thick and pinappley. I then dumped it over top of 6 chicken thighs and the bell peppers, with some minced garlic instead of garlic powder. thanks for the wonderful recipe and inspo!
do you need to use pineapple?
No, you can leave it out.
Delicious and easy. I used canned diced pineapple. Served over Minute brown rice. Picky eaters of he house were happy.
Can this recipe be doubled in one crock pot? Would the cooking time change?
Yes. You most likely won’t need any extra time if you keep the lid on the entire time.
Made this tonight …. delicious flavour
Looking forward to making this!
Broccoli as a side jumps out to go with the chicken and rice. Any other suggestions? Maybe baby bok choy?
Thanks!
I serve broccoli with most everything. That or asparagus sounds good.