Easy Slow Cooker Thai Chicken in Peanut Sauce

⏲️ Time needed

This recipe has a short prep time: 10-15 minutes. Cook time can be as little as 3 hours on high or as long as 8 hours on low in your slow cooker.

🥘 Ingredients

• boneless skinless chicken breasts
• salsa
• peanut butter
• lime juice
• soy sauce or tamari
• fresh grated ginger root
• peanuts, for garnish
• fresh cilantro, for garnish
• prepared white rice

📋 Instructions

Place the chicken in your slow cooker. Mix together all other ingredients except peanuts and cilantro and pour over the chicken.

Cook on low for 8 hours or on high for 3-4 hours, depending on your slow cooker, stirring occasionally. Serve over white rice and garnish with peanuts and cilantro.

💭 Tips

Peanut sauce is delicious on vegetables, so you could add slices of colorful bell peppers and onions to the slow cooker at the beginning of cooking. Throw in 2-3 cups of spinach in the last half hour or so and this is a complete meal with no sides needed.

❄️ Freezer instructions

Easy Slow Cooker Thai Chicken in Peanut Sauce freezes well. Prepare the sauce in whatever quantity needed for the number of dishes you want to freeze. Freeze the sauce in a separate container and put it together with the chicken in the freezer, then place the instructions and ¼ cup chopped peanuts with them.

Print or write out the below instructions and place with the dish, and label the outside with "Easy Slow Cooker Thai Chicken in Peanut Sauce (needs 2 Tbsp. fresh cilantro and 3 cups prepared white rice).” (I use permanent marker to label the outside; it can be removed with magic eraser.)