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Crock Pot Teriyaki Chicken is an easy and delicious make ahead dinner, perfect for any weeknight. Filled with red onion, peppers, pineapple and chicken, cooked low and slow in teriyaki sauce to perfection. Set it, forget it and enjoy over butter rice or quinoa.
Crock Pot Teriyaki Chicken | An Easy Weeknight Meal
Me and my Crock Pot are on speaking terms again. Not that we weren’t ever NOT on speaking terms…sometimes I forget it exists. ANYWAYS, it’s still hot in Portland and I’m still lazy…so…the crockpot is clawing its way back onto my counter appliance food chain and we are eating like there’s no tomorrow.
I made this Crock Pot Teriyaki Chicken recipe a few weeks ago and just about died. So easy. 10 minutes of prep. Ridiculously tasty. Did not heat up my house.
The end.
Make this and enjoy the slow-cooked goodness that is this chicken.
How to make Crock Pot Teriyaki Chicken
- In a crockpot, throw in some chicken breasts, teriyaki sauce, pineapple chunks {with all that juice too}, diced red peppers, and red onion.
- Add a lid, click it to high and let ‘er rip for 3-4 hours which basically means until the chicken shreds just by looking at it.
- And that’s it. Enjoy over rice, quinoa or by itself. So so delicious any way you do it.
Everyone in my family loved this and my 5-year-old daughter even asked for seconds. Shocking stuff, especially if you know my daughter at all.
Save or pin this recipe for later, folks! It’s the perfect weeknight meal!
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Crock Pot Teriyaki Chicken over Quinoa Pilaf
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups bottled teriyaki sauce
- 2-3 boneless skinless chicken breasts about 1.5 pounds
- 1 cup red bell pepper diced
- 1/2 red onion diced
- 1 20 oz. can pineapple chunks
- salt & pepper to taste
for the quinoa:
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/2 cup yellow onion finely diced
- 1 cup quinoa
- 2 cups chicken stock
- salt to taste
- cilantro for garnish, if desired
- sesame seeds for garnish, if desired
Instructions
- Place all ingredients for chicken into crockpot. Stir to coat chicken. Cover and cook on high for 4 hours or until chicken is very tender.
- Shred chicken and place back into liquid. Cover and keep warm until ready to serve.
- For quinoa, 30 minutes prior to serving chicken, melt butter in medium saucepan and sauté onion 2 minutes to start becoming tender. Stir in quinoa to coat in butter. Add in chicken stock and salt if desired. Stir, cover, bring to boil, reduce to simmer and cook 20-30 minutes or until liquid is absorbed and quinoa is soft.
- Serve chicken over bed of warm quinoa and top with sesame seeds and cilantro.
Nutrition
other teriyaki recipes you might like:
Pineapple Chicken Skewers with Homemade Teriyaki Sauce
Teriyaki Glazed Garlic Kale Meatballs with Mango Avocado Salsa
This looks and sounds delicious!!
My family loves this recipe! It’s on our regular rotation! Yum!!
This looks great. Saved it and am going to try it this week. I love loading up the crock in the morning knowing I don’t have to cook later that day! Thanks!
Hi! I tried this tonight, and it turned out waaaaay too salty. Couldn’t eat it! I used Kikkoman’s Teriyaki sauce and Dole chunk pineapple. Did you use low-salt teriyaki?
Kikkoman tends to be more salty…like their soy sauce. Try a thicker teriyaki like Trader Joe’s teriyaki sauce.
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Sounds yummy! Can you recommend a good store bought teriyaki sauce, it’s hard to find a good one! Thanks:)
I’ve tried this one before and like it: https://express.google.com/u/0/product/5296666536919099621_1647851661049369208_9359450?mall=Rockies1&directCheckout=1&utm_source=google_shopping&utm_medium=product_ads&utm_campaign=gsx&gclid=CjwKCAjwmJbeBRBCEiwAAY4VVZPtPXfKN5f0mjTUgbPT5C_RcxM3ReA8HtJRxQv9ROikMyusdEryXRoCd-YQAvD_BwE
Sounds easy and delicious! Perfect for a busy weeknight!
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Just made this today after finding it here (or maybe it was in the weekly meal prep email?) So good!!! It’s in circulation to be a regular!
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Lauren,
Did you strain the pineapple juice before adding, or should I throw in the fruit and juice? Thanks!
Never mind…got it:)
No, don’t strain it! Add it all in 🙂
Looks great. Do you drain the pineapple chunks or include the juice? Thanks!
i made this for dinner on Friday night, just had to tell you it was Delicious! And it was super simple to make, and the kids liked it too, even my picky eater. I might try crushed pineapple next time. to get more pineapple in every bite. Thanks for the recipe 🙂
It always surprises me what my mother ends up referencing in our conversations! I think she’s more in touch with pop culture than I am. This crockpot chicken sounds incredible, I will definitely be making it for dinner soon.
Going to try this tonight! Thanks.
Haha, my dad loves those shows too (and Big Brother), and he’s 73! He watches the Bachelor Pad, etc., too!
Delicious dinner idea! I love it!
My grandma watches the bachelor/ bachelorette and she’s 83! haha
This looks awesome (as does your crockpot, i agree with everyone above) question- does the pineapple in this dish make the meat “sweet?” this is perfect for me, but my hubs doesn’t like “sweet meat”. (how’s that for a gross combo?) my mom does not watch DWTS or the Bach.. but is obsessed and not slightly so with that Castle crime/novelist.. and i don’t think it’s the murders that keeps her watching. 🙂
It is on the sweeter side, but I think the teriyaki sauce had something to do with that too. You could just omit the pineapple 🙂
Love this, super easy peasy & yummy! I have to skip the bell peppers, cause my throat does this funny thing when I eat them. (Lol, it closes up, highly allergic to a food I love, just not fair!)
Ok, I’m a 53 to “girl”, my patient is a 78 yo “woman” (her descriptions) and we both wouldn’t be caught dead watching any “reality TV” . She says people ought to meet the way they used to “in church” and just have “quickie weddings”
Lol, some days she cracks me up!
Can I just start off by commenting on how cute your Crockpot is! I’d be a bit disturbed too if my mom confessed she watched the Bachelor too. In fact, I’m quite okay with not ever knowing about that part of her life, if it exists:) Pinned this lovely chicken for my family; it looks great!
Your mom is perfectly NORMAL Lauren; I’m close to her age and I watch the Bachelor because it’s so crazy the rivalry between them. The scenery is nice at the far away locations. Not much to chose from on TV these days, even with the pathetic cable choices.
This looks great Lauren. Love an easy recipe like this for a Monday 🙂
54 here, and I don’t watch the Bachelor or Dancing with the Stars (too much talking, not enough dancing). I do watch Blue Bloods cause Tom Selleck is a hunk! and there are a couple other shows where I am quietly admiring the hunkiness. Mostly, though I’m too busy to watch. My daughters -30 & 27 are pretty grossed out by everything I do, but I tell them – I had a life before you and now I’m getting back to it. Not that I’m doing anything all that degenerate!! I travel, go out with friends, took up painting, go to the gym, joined a bowling team, went back to college and I work. Really what is too old? Too old for what?
Lauren,
My mom watches the Bachelor too!!! She is 72. I think it’s, well, I don’t know what to think!! And she likes Dancing with the Stars. I don’t watch those shows. Maybe we are too young to watch it. Haha!
Ha, my parents got way cooler after I went away to college too. My mom also tunes into the Bachelor every now and then, and then calls me to discuss how crazy and over-produced the show is. (I agree, yet watch it!!)
Anyway, this meal looks awesome. Love the pineapple in there!
My mom watches the bachelor too but now she’ll admit it’s ridiculous. Does that make it better? I can’t decide! I love this crockpot meal. I could eat it for breakfast.
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The recipe looks great. I am going on 59! Trust me, we may be older, but we are far from dead. I do tabata, HiiT and lift heavy weights. I do something different everyday…keeps me young. I don’t watch those shows, but I love supernatural and person of interest…plenty of hot men on those shows…just saying. My kids are 26 and 22…not READY for grand kids yet. Thank you for another great recipe. ( PS: bet if you did some research you would find it was mainly older women reading that 50 shades of grey series….)
My mom also is obsessed with the Bachelor! But, she’s 55 so maybe that’s ok? I don’t know. I’m still deciding on whether I am okay with it.
BUT I am very okay with an easy, and delicious crock pot recipe! Love your crock pot too, so cute! Pinned!
My mom is obsessed with the Monday lineup and….The Kardashians. Ugh, the shame.
Thank you for sharing the CROCK POT TERIYAKI CHICKEN OVER QUINOA PILAF recipe. Crock pot recipes are very convenient. I work full time from home and the rest of my family is away at school and work during the day. I know my family will like this recipe.