Slow Cooker Island Chicken is a deliciously simple dish. Pair with a fresh salad and mashed potatoes, dinner is done. Great freezer meal too!
Nothing tastes as good as a really flavorful dinner already cooked when I get home from work. Am I alone here? Island Chicken is just that. It’s not fruity island either, it’s just super flavorful and tastes so amazing – of course they’d eat it on an island – I would too!
Island Chicken is the absolute perfect freezer meal – I promise you. It’s even on our 40 meals in 4 hours. I LOVE having my freezer full of dinners just waiting for me to pluck out and throw into the crock pot – you have heard of dump meals right? Island Chicken is a great dump meal. I hate the name, but I love the dumping of a few ingredients into the slow cooker and having a really yummy dinner coming out of it! Minutes I tell you – Minutes to make dinner. That’s my kind of meal.
Being that this recipe is called Island Chicken I like to serve it with some fancy rice and some snow peas or something fun like that. Steam in the bag is easy enough right? Your whole family will love eating dinner with this chicken!
Let me give you a few more fun and easy dinners – you’re going to love these too!
Adapted from: [Annie's Eats|http://www.annies-eats.com/2009/10/14/island-chicken/]
Island Chicken
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Sounds very tasty and a nice addition to my chicken file. One question about the marinade the chicken has been marinating in – is that added with the chicken and other ingredients for cooking or is the extra marinade tossed out?
Everything is added to the crockpot. Hope you enjoy it!
When making these freezer meals do you put everything in zip lock bag except for the extra ingredients like this recipe states do not add chicken broth til putting in crock pot
For this recipe, I went ahead and added the broth to the freezer bag as well. When it’s a larger quantity (1 cup+), I will wait to add it that morning just for the sake of saving space in the freezer. Hope that helps!
can you use dark meat for this to?
Absolutely! I think any type of meat would work with the marinade. Enjoy!
This was super simple! Perfect for a hectic midweek dinner. I grilled this and served it with corn on the cob for this month’s recipe swap! Amazing!
Can you cook it on low, and if you do how long would you cook it for in crock pot?
Hi, I’m going to put all of these ingredients together in the freezer for a later date.. Do I combine all of the ingredients and put in a bag to freeze except for the chicken stock or do I add the chicken stock to it and freeze it that way? Thanks:)
Christine – I think you could do it either way 😉
I have to admit, reading the spices, it sounds more… Italian, maybe? Sounds wonderful by any name, though! 😀
This will sound like I’m nitpicking but this isn’t a “meal”. It’s just the chicken. While I love anything that makes life simpler I didn’t see how this one qualified to make this particular list.
Any side suggestions for an easy complete meal? I’d still like to try it.
Steam in bag veggies 🙂
This is almost exactly like one of my facorite recipes (lemon garlic chicken) but in mine, the chicken sits doesn’t marinade in the juice, you cook it with the juice in the crockpot then add cream cheese. Sooooooo good over pasta!! I
How much cream cheese? And when do you add it?
There is no cream cheese in this recipe.
When making the recipes that have chicken, can I use already frozen chicken? Also, if I freeze these meals, do they need to be thawed out before placing in crockpot?
Kim I used frozen chicken breasts for freezer meals – just make sure to pop them out of the freezer only long enough to put them in the bags and then right back to the freezer. If you are using them to make that day – of course you can use them!
I am confused – you say chicken stock and chicken broth – which is it? Is it 1/2 cup chicken broth?
We used chicken broth, and are making this one tonight. 🙂
About how much weight would 6 breasts be? I’m thinking these are on the smaller size. We get our chicken from Sam’s and they average 1lb a breast so I’m not sure how much to use.
Becky – go by what your family eats. 🙂 I would say if they are not the Sam’s chicken breasts (I know exactly what you’re talking about) I would figure about 1/2 pound per breast – so this recipe (give or take) would be 3 Sam’s breasts 🙂
All I can say is Wow! My husband usually likes everything I make but he could not stop talking about this chicken recipe! Gave it 11 out of 10! 😉 and when I think about how easy it was to prep and throw in the crockpot a few days later, simply can’t beat it! We’ll be trying all the others! 😉
It’s called Island Chicken because it’s supposed to be like a Jamaican Jerk seasoning on it!
Hi! I’m having trouble knowing how to measure the chicken. I noticed you say “go by how much your family eats”. It’s just me and my husband eating these recipes. Should I include enough chicken for 4 servings? I’ll know how to eye-ball if I know how many people these recipes should serve.
yes enough for you to have 4 servings should be great. I usually do 4 chicken breasts 😉
My question is, if I am cutting this recipe in half how does that change the cook time?
Does it cut the cook time in half as well?
It won’t cut it in half – but it will cook more quickly 😉
It won’t cut it in half – but it will cook more quickly 😉