Slow cooker General Tsos Chicken Recipe!

This is seriously a fast prep ( 15 minutes ) GREAT meal for dinner, you can add or reduce the spice to your liking!

SLOW COOKER GENERAL TSO'S CHICKEN

COOK TIME

Cook Time -4 hours

TOTAL TIME

4 hours 15 mins

INGREDIENTS

• 5 large boneless skinless chicken breasts (about 3 pounds), cut into 'bite'size pieces
• 4 tablespoons oil ( I used peanut oil! ) 
• 1 cup corn starch
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2  teaspoon garlic powder 
• 1 teaspoon pepper

sauce

• 11 tablespoons hoisin sauce( i used a full 8.5 oz jar. )
• 8 tablespoons soy sauce
• 8 tablespoons rice vinegar
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoon minced garlic (or garlic powder)
• 4 tablespoons water
• 4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes ( I used about 1/4 of a cup, but my family loves spice ) 
• Brown Rice For serving

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oil in a nonstick pan or skillet over medium heat. Whisk together corn starch, salt, 1 teaspoon garlic powder, and pepper.
2. Add corn starch mixture and chicken pieces to a large zip lock bag. Seal and shake to coat chicken.
3. Add coated chicken pieces to pan. Saute 1-2 minutes until browned. (It chicken will still be raw in the middle at this point, that's okay)
4. combine all sauce ingredients in a bowl  and blend . Add half to the crockpot along with chicken pieces. Cook on low for 4 hours.
5. Immediately before serving, Add remaining sauce to the crockpot and stir gently. Serve with rice.

********* This recipe was found on lecremedelacrumb and altered to my families liking ***********