Zesty Slow Cooker Chicken Barbecue Recipe

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Slow Cooker Zesty BBQ Shredded Chicken is a great twist on basic barbecue chicken. It's as easy as adding frozen boneless chicken to your crock pot, topping it with the sauce ingredients, then set it and forget it!

We served it with a dill pickle spear, some tortilla chips and this homemade Tomato Peach Salsa or try it with this BLT Macaroni Salad.

There is much debate about if it is safe or not to use frozen chicken in a slow cooker so if your worried about it, you can use thawed chicken. Quin Patton, a food scientist formerly with PepsiCo said, "It is safe to cook a frozen chicken in a slow cooker, you just need to make sure the internal temperature gets up to 165 degrees at some point during the cooking process." I have personally never had any problems using frozen in any slow cooker recipe, but I can't guarantee if you will or not so please make your own decision.

a graphic of zesty crock pot shredded bbq chicken sandwiches for two — Slow Cooker Zesty BBQ Shredded Chicken Sandwiches for Two

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How to make Crock Pot BBQ Chicken:

Place the frozen boneless chicken in a 4 quart slow cooker Crockpot. Click for a 4 quart crockpot.

In a small bowl whisk the barbecue sauce, Zesty Italian salad dressing, brown sugar, and Worcestershire sauce.

Pour the sauce ingredients over the chicken.

boneless chicken breast covered in zesty bbq sauce in a crock pot slow cooker

Cover and cook 8 hours on low or 4 hours on high.

Use a fork to shred the chicken in the pot then stir to coat completely.

Serve the zesty shredded chicken on the sandwich rolls.

two sandwiches with zesty bbq shredded chicken that was cooked in a crock pot — Crock Pot Shredded BBQ Chicken

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Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 8 hours

Total Time: 8 hours 5 minutes

Slow Cooker Zesty BBQ Shredded Chicken is a great twist on basic barbecue chicken. It's as easy as adding frozen boneless chicken to your slow cooker, topping it with the sauce ingredients, then set it and forget it!

Ingredients

8 oz frozen boneless chicken breasts
1/2 cup barbecue sauce
2 Tablespoons Zesty Italian salad dressing
2 Tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
2 sandwich rolls

Instructions

Place frozen boneless chicken in a 4 quart slow cooker Crockpot. Click here for a 4 quart crockpot.
In a small bowl whisk barbecue sauce, Zesty Italian salad dressing, brown sugar, and Worcestershire sauce.
Pour sauce ingredients over chicken.
Cover and cook 8 hours on low or 4 hours on High.
Use a fork to shred the chicken in the pot then stir to coat completely.
Serve zesty shredded chicken on sandwich rolls.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 534 Total Fat: 10g Saturated Fat: 2g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 6g Cholesterol: 96mg Sodium: 1313mg Carbohydrates: 69g Fiber: 2g Sugar: 37g Protein: 40g

Nutrition information is a guideline only, is calculated automatically by third party software, and absolute accuracy is not guaranteed.