Honey Pineapple Chicken~! Slow Cooker Edition!

 

 So my sister-in-law for Christmas gave us a big electronic menu Slow Cooker and a Slow Cooker recipe book :) I'm really happy that she gave these to us because since we opened it up we have been making things left and right with it! hehehe.  I actually have always wanted one because I think it's a pretty nifty idea to prepare things earlier in the day and just toss it in the cooker and not have to worry about it for hours. It does all the hard work for you~! You don't even have to really thoroughly clean it if you use cooker liners :) I think I'm going to write a post in the future about the wonders of it hehe.

So one of the things that I did this week to mix things up a bit was " Honey Pineapple Chicken Tenders".  I really like pineapple it's one of my favorite fruits to eat in dishes. I think it goes well with almost anything! Since I had bought prior some chicken tenders, I took this recipe and modified it a bit. I had somewhat of a tough time because the recipe called for 3lbs of chicken and I only had 1lb so I had to cut the recipe down to the appropriate measurement :) It called for a bunch of math, some head wracking and some eyeballing! I really don't do too much eyeballing at this stage of the game because I don't yet feel too comfortable with the " a pinch of this a handful of that " way of cooking.

So for this dish what I did was I chopped up the tenders into tiny chunks, placed them in the Slow Cooker and then added the other ingredients, which were, honey, vegetable oil, soy sauce, garlic, pineapples, salt and pepper. I also added the juice of the pineapples into the mixture even thought it didn't call for it, because I figured it was such a small amount of chicken it would probably get dry in the cooker. I set it for 8 hours on low. After like 4 hours I added a lot more pineapple and nuts to the mixture and then at the 5 hour mark, it was pretty much done so we took it out and it was dinner time!  (the dish was prob. done a lot sooner but I was not so sure so I called Chef Richy in for the grand inspection lol)

So how did the dish turn out? It was really good! With some rice and veggies next time it will be perfection! Richy ate most of it sadly so I didn't have too much of it in the end hehe. What did I learn from this? Buy more chicken that just 1lb!