South Pacific Island Chicken From A Crock Pot Recipes

SLOW COOKER HAWAIIAN CHICKEN

Steps:

• Put chicken breasts into the crock of a slow cooker; top with barbeque sauce, pineapple slices, and soy sauce.
• Cook on High for 4 to 5 hours.

TROPICAL ISLAND CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine first 10 ingredients. Set aside 1/3 cup for basting; cover and refrigerate. Pour remaining marinade into a large resealable plastic bag. Add chicken; seal and turn to coat. Refrigerate 8 hours or overnight., Prepare grill for indirect heat, using a drip pan. Place chicken over drip pan; grill, covered, over indirect medium heat 45-60 minutes or until a thermometer reads 170°-175°, turning and basting frequently with reserved marinade during the last 20 minutes.

SLOW-COOKER SOUTHWESTERN CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a 5-qt. slow cooker, combine the corn, black beans and 1/2 cup salsa. Top with chicken and remaining salsa. , Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours or until chicken is tender. Sprinkle with cheese. Cover and cook 5 minutes longer or until cheese is melted.

ISLAND CROCK POT CHICKEN

Steps:

• Drain pineapple and reserve liquid.
• Put chicken parts in bottom of slow-cooker.
• Mix together pineapple syrup, chicken broth, vinegar, brown sugar, and soy sauce in a saucepan.
• Heat until brown sugar dissolves.
• Pour over chicken.
• Heat on high for one hour.
• Add pineapple chunks, garlic and green pepper.
• Cover and cook on low for 7- 9 hours.
• Half an hour before serving mix together cornstarch and water and add to the slow-cooker.

SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND CHICKEN (FROM A CROCK POT!)

Steps:

• In a large bowl combine pineapple juice, orange juice, and 3 tablespoons of the ground ginger.
• Put 1/2 of the liquid in a large zipper seal bag (or split it in two bags if need be). Reserve rest of liquid in bowl or other covered container.
• Rinse chicken and pierce with a fork in several places of each breast. Place chicken in zipper bag(s)and refrigerate at least 4 hours to overnight (I prefer overnight).
• Drain the mandarin oranges and put in container with reserved liquid, cover and marinate for the same amount of time as the chicken.
• Chop peppers and onion.
• When ready to cook, place chicken in bottom of crock pot, discard the marinade. Layer the onions and peppers on chicken and salt and pepper to taste.
• Drain pineapple chunks and add fruit to crock pot. Add UNDRAINED crushed pineapple to crock pot as well as the mandarin oranges WITH the liquid.
• Set crock pot to HIGH and cook 6-8 hours, depending on when the chicken is done.
• When ready to serve cook rice according to package directions and serve chicken with sauce over the rice. ENJOY!

SLOW-COOKED SOUTHWEST CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a 2- or 3-qt. slow cooker, combine the beans, broth, tomatoes, chicken, salsa, corn and seasonings. Cover and cook on low 3-4 hours or until a thermometer inserted in chicken reads 165°., Shred chicken with 2 forks and return to slow cooker; heat through. Serve over rice. If desired, serve with lime wedges and fresh cilantro. Freeze option: After shredding chicken, freeze cooled mixture in freezer containers. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Heat through in a saucepan, stirring occasionally; add a little broth or water if necessary.

TROPICAL CROCK POT CHICKEN

Steps:

• Place the chicken pieces on the bottom of your slow cooker.
• In a bowl, mix together all remaining ingredients.
• Evenly pour over the chicken.
• Cover and cook on low for 5-8 hours (depending on the chicken parts used) or cook on high for 3-4 hours.

CROCK POT CARIBBEAN CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a skillet, brown the chicken in oil over medium-high heat.
• Using a slotted spoon, transfer the chicken to the slow cooker, and add the potatoes and tomatoes to the slow cooker.
• Add the onion, green pepper, garlic, brown sugar, ginger, pepper, cayenne, thyme and salt to the skillet and cook over medium-high heat for 3 minutes.
• Stir the broth into the skillet, then transfer the mixture to the slow cooker. Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours, or on high for 3 to 4 hours.
• Stir in the coconut milk and cook for an additional 30 minutes on low.

SOUTH PACIFIC PORK ROAST (CROCK POT)

Steps:

• Season roast with salt and pepper and rub with minced garlic.
• Pan sear (on top of stove) roast about 3 minutes on each side.
• Place onion in bottom of crock-pot.
• Place roast on top of onion.
• Top roast with remaining ingredients, except Pineapple, cornstarch, and water.
• Mix water and cornstarch and pour onto top of all ingredients.
• Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.
• Add the can of pineapple and cook for another hour, or you can do like me and be lazy and throw the pineapple in with the other ingredients and cook it the whole time!

SLOW-COOKER COUNTRY CAPTAIN CHICKEN

Steps:

• Place onion, pepper and garlic in a 6-qt. slow cooker. Arrange chicken pieces over vegetables., Whisk the next 5 ingredients with the chicken broth. Pour over chicken. Cover and cook on high for 1 hour. Add raisins and tomatoes. Reduce heat to low and cook until chicken reaches 165°, about 2-1/2 hours. Serve over rice; if desired, sprinkle with parsley.