Crock Pot Honey Mustard Chicken
Easy, fast, and delicious. Our Crock Pot Honey Mustard Chicken is a simple shredded chicken recipe with a ton of flavor that makes it perfect to serve with rice or potatoes, on salads, or as sliders!
Have I mentioned how “Quick and Easy” is the theme in our house for dinner, lately? I loved our Crock Pot before, but now, oh now, it’s a lifesaver with crazy busy schedules. Shout out to all the other working moms out there to little ones, solidarity, sisters! For those insanely busy weeknights, I got you. Here’s one of our go-to quick and easy favorites, our Crock Pot Honey Mustard Chicken!
Ingredients Needed
- Boneless chicken breasts – This would also be delicious with boneless chicken thighs.
- Dijon Mustard – Have you made our homemade Dijon Mustard yet?
- Chicken Stock – Have you made your own Homemade Chicken Stock yet? You could also use Homemade Vegetable Stock, too.
- Liquid smoke – Optional but we love the flavor that this adds!
- Garlic – A staple in most of our chicken recipes.
- Honey – The honey of the honey mustard!
- Cumin – It’s subtle but it adds great flavor!
- Salt and Pepper – To season.
- Fresh Parsley – To finish with.
Easy to Make
It doesn’t get much easier than add some chicken to a crock pot, season with salt, and then mix the rest of your ingredients together to pour over that chicken.
Then it’s just a matter of letting it slow cook in your crock pot!
Let that crock pot do its thing and once that chicken is done just give it a quick shred and top it with some fresh parsley. That’s it! Crock Pot Honey Mustard Chicken, done.
How to Serve It
- Over Rice – Like our Coconut Jasmine Rice.
- With Potatoes – Like your favorite mashed potatoes.
- As Slides – In our Easy Homemade Dinner Rolls or Homemade Hawaiian Rolls!
- On Salad – Put it over your favorite green salad or on our Grilled Romaine.
… the list goes on and on! Check out all of our sides and salads!
Recipe Tips
This is a great recipe to prep in advance and make this honey mustard chicken even easier! You can prep it all and let it marinate in the fridge over night, or prep the honey mustard sauce up to 3 days in advance before adding it to the chicken.
We love to shred this chicken in all of that flavorful honey mustard sauce to keep it all nice and juicy, but you could also serve it as whole breasts, too.
This is a great recipe to freeze! Cook, shred, cool and then add it to your freezer safe containers and store for up to 4 months.
Enjoy! As always, if you make this recipe or any of my others, I love to hear what you think! Leave a comment below, email me, or you can find me on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest!
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Crock Pot Honey Mustard Chicken
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 cup Dijon mustard
- 1/3 cup honey
- 5 garlic cloves minced
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 1/2 teaspoon liquid smoke optional
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon cumin
Instructions
- Prep: Season the chicken breasts with salt and place in the crock pot. Add the remaining ingredients in a medium-sized bowl or pyrex and mix well.
- Slow Cook: Pour honey mustard mixture over chicken. Cook on high for 4 hrs or low for 8 hrs.
- Serve: Shred chicken and serve over rice, potatoes, in sliders, or with your favorite sides!
Can I use boneless skinless chicken thighs? If so, how would I adjust the cook time?
Hi Lynn! You absolutely can, no need to adjust the cooking time 🙂
Ok, so I haven’t tried the recipe yet but I just wanted to say I appreciate how nicely it printed out. Maybe that is silly but I abhor printing out a recipe only to find that it takes multipple pages due to ads and formatting weirdness. It is then awkward to read and it makes me grumpy so I avoid all other recipes on that particular as well. So, thanks! 🙂
Awww TK that is SO nice!! So glad it formats well for you and I hope you enjoy the recipe, too!
Oh man, LOVE honey mustard chicken. It’s one of those flavors that reminds me of my childhood and I could eat it every single week. I’ve never made a crockpot version of it, but as a mother of a toddler, I’m totally sold. It sounds perfect!
Yes! My toddler loved it – and I love how easy it is!
A crock pot had to be invented by a woman who could not squeeze another minute out of the day. Coming home after being gone all day and having to think of cooking a meal is not easy. This honey mustard chicken sounds amazing. You could use the leftover for sandwiches. Love all the flavors going on in the chicken — with the crock pot would not dry out.
Omg YES. Marisa, I love the way you think. Definitely an invention by an overworked woman! 😉
First of all–go YOU!! Creatively getting a healthy, proper dinner on the table after a 12+ hour day is the working mom’s challenge, that’s for sure. I really like that this chicken is so versatile. Served over rice and salads sound delish. I’d probably toast a really great sandwich roll for another way to serve it.
Thank you so much, Kirsten!
I can’t even tell you how much I love Dijon mustard and am always looking for excuses to use it. This chicken dish is the perfect opportunity and I can’t wait to try! Thanks for sharing another brilliant recipe 🙂
Love everything about this. So simple yet so incredibly yummy looking. My gosh…look at the fork-tender chicken. Honey mustard chicken is our favorite, and in a slow cooker is brilliant. Thanks for this awesome recipe, will be making this very, very soon.
I love everything about this….especially that I can make most of it in the evening and then throw into the crock pot in the morning. Having this ready when I get home is going to be a game changer. We love honey mustard so this sounds just perfect for our house. Can’t wait to add this to our menu planning for this week.
It made our weeknights sooo much easier! Enjoy, Debra!
I have not jumped on the Instant Pot bandwagon….BUT I DO love using my slow cooker. I needed to figure out a dinner idea for an upcoming birthday celebration. I think this is it. Printing right now….awesome!!
You know, I’m with you, Gloria! I have an IP, but I mostly use it for the slow cook option because I broke our very old and well loved crock pot!
Honey Mustard is a classic that never gets old for me. Thank you for this amazing, must-pin crockpot recipe of it! I’ll keep it at hand!
Thanks, Michelle!