Crockpot Chicken Terikayki ? Cooking Whims

Accidents happen.

Imagine this scene:

You come home from work, change into your workout clothes, pop in the Jillian Michaels DVD, decide it?s a Level 2 kind of day, grab your weights, push the coffee table and chairs out of the way, lay down your exercise mat, lace up your shoes, and start pumping it out with jumping jacks and squats.

And halfway through the workout you get to the most annoying exercise of them all: backwards lunges with a dumbbell curl. You?ve done it 8 trillion times before, but this time for some unlucky reason, you go back for a lunge and lose your balance. You realize you have a half a second to catch your balance, but know it won?t happen in time, and in trying to regain it, you fall to your left?but your right leg stays to your right.

Yah?I fell. I fell hard, and twisted my right knee pretty badly in the process. Luckily I didn?t tear any ligaments or break any bones (though, I must say, having your kneecap pop out of place and then landing on it definitely feels like something broke).

Nevertheless, no physical activity was prescribed for me for 7-10 days. On top of that, when I can go back to physical activity, it has to be low impact moves. No Jillian for a while

If you know me, I don?t take the prescription ?sit down for 7-10 days? very well. I?m always on the go. More importantly, I?m very dedicated to my workout schedule. So it?s hard for me to lose 1-2 weeks of physical activity and still eat the way I normally do.

On top of that, cooking became very difficult. Standing up for an hour in front of the stove wasn?t really an option.

So I turned to my trusted, wonderful, beautiful, shiny, glorious friend.

My crockpot

Crockpots = lifesavers for those on a busy schedule (or those with disabled knees). Take ingredients. Throw into pot. Turn it on. Dinner when you come home. If I didn?t enjoy chopping veggies that much, I actually would probably use the crockpot every day. Anyone out there that does?

And after a little searching, I settled on this finger-lickin? recipe for chicken drumsticks in a homemade teriyaki sauce.

Honestly. The easiest crockpot recipe I?ve ever made.

Crockpot Chicken Teriyaki (From Finding Joy in My Kitchen)
Serves 4
>> Click Here for Printable Recipe <<

Ingredients:

• 6-8 chicken drumsticks (I used 6)
• 1/4 cup reduced sodium soy sauce
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 2 tbsp honey
• 1 tsp bottled minced garlic
• 1 cup water
• 2 tbsp cornstarch

Directions:

1. Spray a slow cooker lightly with cooking spray. Lay the chicken in an even layer in the pot.
2. Whisk together the water and cornstarch. Then add in the soy sauce, ginger, honey, and minced garlic.
3. Pour the sauce over the chicken. Cover the crockpot and cook on Low for 8-10 hours.
4. Serve over rice and a with a side of veggies.

My Two Cents:?Absolutely phenomenal. And, as I usually say, I know when a recipe is a true winner when Chris goes back for seconds and steals all of the leftovers for his lunch the next day The sauce had just the right amount of sweetness to it, and the chicken was incredibly tender ? it slid right off the bone.

I imagine this would work just as well with any kind of chicken that you have ? breasts, thighs, etc.

Seriously people.

So. Easy.

Source: http://cookingwhims.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/crockpot-chicken-terikayki/

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