I’m so excited to share one of the recipes from my new cookbook with you! It’s a recipe for slow cooker Hawaiian chicken that can be quickly prepped and frozen and then cooked in your slow cooker. Such an easy, simple, and yummy meal to have on-hand.
What I love about this slow cooker Hawaiian chicken is that it’s not your average chicken dinner. In a previous blog post, I shared my favorite chicken crockpot recipes. They’re all delicious, but this is something special.
This recipe for slow cooker Hawaiian chicken only requires four ingredients: chicken breasts, fresh pineapple, brown sugar, and soy sauce. Yum!
No cook freezer meals don’t require any cooking before freezing. Simply combine the meats, vegetables, sauces and spices, and freeze!
Slow Cooker Hawaiian Chicken for the Freezer
Ingredients
- 1lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 1 fresh pineapple, stalk, skin, and core removed and fruit cut into bite-sized pieces
- 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
Materials
- 1 gallon-sized plastic freezer bag
Prep
- Label your freezer bag.
- To your freezer bag, add pineapple, brown sugar, soy sauce, and chicken breasts. (Add the chicken breasts to the bag last, so they’re the first ingredient poured into your slow cooker.)
- Remove as much air from the freezer bag as possible, seal, and lay flat in your freezer.
Cook
- The night before cooking, move frozen bag to your refrigerator to thaw.
- The morning of cooking, pour contents of freezer bag into your slow cooker and cook on “low” setting for 3-6 hours, or until chicken is cooked through and tender.
Serve with brown rice and broccoli, and enjoy!
thanks for help in the kitchen
I made this last night and my family loved it. I love how it does not heat up the kitchen! I made it from scratch the morning I cooked it, but I can’t wait to try it from the freezer!
Yay! I’m so glad you liked it! Thanks for letting me know!
Do you find that the acid from the pineapple deteriorates the puter chocken skin in the freezer.
Yes. I now add the pineapple the day of cooking.
I’m interested in trying this recipe, but am not sure how to peel and cut a pineapple. Will canned pineapple (in it’s own juice) work? If so, how big of a can do you think it’d need?
I would try two 15oz cans. Drain the juice before adding!
Thanks so much!
I bought a box of chicken breast already frozen (cheaper) can i still add ingredients with the frozen chicken breast and put back in the freezer?
Yes, absolutely. Don’t thaw the chicken. Add it to the freezer bag frozen with the rest of the fresh ingredients.
Getting very excited to try your freeze ahead crockpot meals. I notice a good number of your meals call for the chicken to be slice or cut into pieces. Are most of them like that or are some that you put in the chicken breasts whole. I only ask b/c we have a stach of frozed chicken breasts so I’d have to thaw them to cut them before I could do assembly on any that required cutting. Thanks!
You can add them whole and then cut or shred after cooking. Sounds like an awesome time-saver to me. 🙂
Do you think this would work with pork shoulder substituted for the chicken?
Yes, I think that would be good. If the pork shoulder is big (3 pounds+), I’d probably double the amount of brown sugar and soy sauce.
after reading some reviews I was wondering if I could add a bit of fresh garlic for flavor. have you tried this before? or do u think it would overpower the dish? this will be tomorrow’s dinner and I am hoping for a hit. thanks in advance
No, I have not tried it.