This easy recipe for Slow Cooker Lemongrass Chicken comes together quickly for dinner, served over cauliflower rice with extra cilantro.
Happy Friday! I can’t believe we’re soon rolling into the last full week of October, with daylight savings and the holidays just around the corner. It has been a crazy week with travel, with K and I in working in different states and many hours spent in the car {and awful traffic}. I made this recipe for Slow Cooker Lemongrass Chicken a few weeks ago, and I really wish I had it ready when I got home last night after 9:00.
Lemongrass is one of my favorite flavors, but I don’t use it nearly often enough. I used three stalks in this recipe. The important thing to remember is you have to trim lemongrass before using it. The first time I made a lemongrass dish a few years ago, I didn’t trim it well enough and K and I were picking lemongrass stalks out of our teeth for an hour after dinner. Whoops 🙂 Food & Wine has a great description of how to trim the lemongrass stalk – read it before you make this dish! Here’s the gist of it: you need to remove the outer leaves and chop up only the bulb for a recipe.
Lemongrass pairs deliciously with chicken. I also added apple cider vinegar, Chinese five spice, garlic, ginger and other tasty Asian-inspired flavors. Serve over regular or cauliflower rice with extra cilantro on top!
Slow Cooker Lemongrass Chicken
An easy dinner recipe using lemongrass.
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 pounds chicken breasts
- 3 stalks lemongrass {bulbs}
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 3 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tsp Chinese five spice
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp grated ginger
- 1/4 cup cilantro {chopped}
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
Instructions
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Add all ingredients to a slow cooker. Cook on HIGH for 2 hours.
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After 2 hours, shred chicken with a fork and stir. Continue cooking on LOW for 30 minutes.
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Serve over cauliflower rice or regular rice.
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I’m Celia. I live in the Chicago area. I'm a mama of two, runner, business owner and former Iowan. My blog includes recipes, fitness and travel posts, and stories about Chicago.
Yum. Lemon Chicken is the best. love this recipe
Nice to have a chance to try it.