Recipe: Slow Cooked Honey & Soy Chicken

Ingredients:

• 1kg Free Range Chicken Thighs
• 1 small onion (diced)
• 3 garlic cloves (diced)
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1/2 cup soy sauce (or for gluten free option, use same amount of Tamari)
• 1/4 cup hoisin sauce
• 2 tbs olive oil
• 1 tsp cornflour
• 1 tbs water
• 3 shallots
• 1 tbs sesame seeds
• Rice to serve

Method:

• Preheat slow cooker on low
• If applicable, remove skin and excess skin from chicken thighs
• Finely dice onion and garlic
• Whisk together honey, soy sauce, hoisin sauce and oil
• Add onion and garlic to sauce ingredients and mix
• Layer chicken pieces in the bottom of your slow cooker and pour marinade over the top, then cover with lid
• Finely chop 3 shallots and toast sesame seeds in 180degree oven for 20 – 30 minutes (until golden)
• After 6 hours, remove chicken pieces and set aside
• Pour sauce from slow cooker in to small saucepan and bring to the boil
• Mix cornflour with water and add to sauce
• While sauce is boiling, shred the chicken pieces (optional)
• Pour sauce over chicken and gently combine
• Divide chicken in to bowls and top with shallots and sesame seeds
• Serve with rice