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These slow cooker chicken tacos have the juiciest, most flavorful chicken. I love that you can make the chicken and prep the fixings ahead of time. It’s perfect for parties and is super family friendly. Have you tried my sweet and spicy baked chicken recipe? It’s been very popular with many of you and is always a winner at dinner parties plus it’s caveman EASY. Great news!!
This is the slow cooker (even easier) version! We love easy. Especially lately with being in my third trimester and starting to feel TI-RED!
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For the Crock Pot Sweet & Spicy Slow Cooker Chicken:
2 lbs (4-5 count) Chicken Breasts, boneless, skinless, trimmed of fat
1 cup very warm water
1/4 cup white vinegar
2 Tbsp lemon juice
2 Tbsp worcestershire sauce
4 Tbsp melted butter
1/3 cup ketchup
1/3 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
2 tsp dry mustard
2 tsp salt
2 tsp chili powder
Toppings/ Taco accessories:
Small flour tortillas
Lettuce, chopped
Tomatoes, diced
Cheddar cheese, shredded
Guacamole
Cilantro
Sour Cream
Hot sauce such as Tabasco
How to Make the BEST Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos:
1. Whisk together all of the marinade ingredients: 1 cup water, 1/3 cup ketchup, 1/4 cup vinegar, 2 Tbsp lemon juice, 2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce, 4 Tbsp melted butter, 1/3 cup brown sugar, 2 tsp dry mustard, 2 tsp salt, 2 tsp chili powder.
2. Add chicken to the slow cooker and pour marinade over the top. Turn a couple times to coat in sauce. Set slow cooker on high for 4 hours or low for 6 hours then keep warm until ready to serve.
3. The chicken will be incredibly tender and easy to shred. Pull chicken with two forks and let it sit in slow cooker juices until ready to serve.
How to Assemble Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos:
1. To assemble tacos: dice, grate and chop all of your fixings (see ingredients list above).
2. Warm up your tortillas by placing a 5 or 6 a time between two lightly damp paper towels and microwaving for 30 seconds.
3. Add the chicken first, then load ’em up with the rest of the toppings. We love a drizzle of Tabasco hot sauce on top.
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Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos
Ingredients
For the Slow Cooker Sweet & Spicy Slow Cooker Chicken:
- 2 lbs 4-5 count Chicken Breasts, trimmed of fat
- 1 cup very warm water
- 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 2 Tbsp lemon juice
- 2 Tbsp worcestershire sauce
- 4 Tbsp melted butter
- 1/3 cup ketchup
- 1/3 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
- 2 tsp dry mustard
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp chili powder
Toppings/ Taco accessories:
- Small flour tortillas, About 10-12
- Lettuce, chopped
- Tomatoes, diced
- Cheddar cheese, shredded
- Guacamole, click for yummy recipe
- Cilantro
- Sour Cream
- Hot sauce such as Tabasco
Instructions
How to Make the BEST Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos:
- Whisk together all of the marinade ingredients: 1 cup water, 1/3 cup ketchup, 1/4 cup vinegar, 2 Tbsp lemon juice, 2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce, 4 Tbsp melted butter, 1/3 cup brown sugar, 2 tsp dry mustard, 2 tsp salt, 2 tsp chili powder.
- Add chicken to the slow cooker and pour marinade over the top. Turn a couple times to coat in sauce. Set slow cooker on high for 4 hours or low for 6 hours then keep warm until ready to serve.
- The chicken will be incredibly tender and easy to shred. Pull chicken with two forks and let it sit in slow cooker juices until ready to serve.
Assembly Tips & Instructions:
- To assemble tacos: dice, grate and chop all of your fixings (see ingredients list above).
- Warm up your tortillas by placing a 5 or 6 a time between two lightly damp paper towels and microwaving for 30 seconds.
- Add the chicken first, then load 'em up with the rest of the toppings. We love a drizzle of Tabasco hot sauce on top.
These Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos are super yummy! Enjoy! 🙂
This is the first of your recipes that we didn’t love. Much too sweet and the ketchup and mustard powder were a strange combo for tacos. Very disappointed because we love, love, love your fish and shrimp tacos!
I’m sorry to hear you didn’t love it. It is a different flavor profile here.
Just like the recipe says… SWEET AND SPICY!!! Loved it♥️👍♥️
Hi, I’m making this for a party and wanted to know if I can double the recipe in a slow cooker.
Hi Elena, I haven’t tested that but I think it could work. If you experiment, let me know how you liked the recipe!
Love your recipes but this one was not my favorite. Too sweet for my liking
I dont see anything but positive comments here. I was referred to this recipe by a friend that isvan excellent cook. I’m of a culinary degree and as I first read, it is just BBQ chicken. I made it anyway and it’s good but not of taco filling I prefer. I added many seasonings of cumin, hot pepper, etc to make it of chicken tacos I prefer. I will try other recipes of yours however.
Thank you for your comments and feedback, Nicole. I hope you love the other recipes that you will try.
All I have on hand is boneless skinless chicken thighs. Will that work?
Hi Sheri, I imagine that will work too although we recommend breast as it has a lot more meat.
Which size of flour tortillas in inches do you consider “small”?
Hi Georgiana, we purchase the small taco tortillas. The burrito size ones are too big for this. These are the smaller of the options, and if I were to guess, I think they are about 4.5″.
What can I use in place of dry mustard since there is an allergy in my household?
Hi Deanna, I honestly haven’t tried other substitution for the dry mustard but feel free to experiment and look for something else that you might like.
Hi Deanna, I honestly haven’t tried other substitutions for the dry mustard but feel free to experiment and look for something else that you might like.
Hi! I can’t wait to make this week. What could I replace the worchestire with? My daughter is allergic to fish and products containing fish . Usually I leave it out of recipes but I miss that unami flavor
Hi Melissa, for every tablespoon of Worcestershire, you can dissolve 1/4 teaspoon granulated sugar in 2 teaspoons of soy sauce plus 1/4 teaspoon lemon juice. You can also add a dash of hot sauce, too, and you’ll get a sweet-spicy-salty-umami blend.
Good food
Thank you!
Hi Natasha,
Once the chicken is cooked, can it be frozen afterwards?
Thankyou.
Hello Sophie, you’re referring to freezing just the meat correct? That should work just fine.
I didn’t have time to cook the chicken in a crock pot, so I cooked them in my Dutch oven instead. They were SO delicious. The chicken was tender, juicy, and had so much flavor! I would definitely make these again!!
I love it and that sounds great! So good to know that you were able to make this successfully too using your dutch oven. Thanks for sharing, Jill!
Would it be ok to use boneless/skinless/thin cut chicken breasts?
Hi Missy, I imagine that will be fine too.
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Thanks Rebecca. I am so glad to have you here too!
OMG Natasha ! Just made this recipe today and after 2 incredible taco’s filled with wonderful I had to let you how good they were . This one is definitely going to be made many more times I’m my house . An excellent recipe to say the least . I’ve made several of your recipes and they have all been outstanding . This one is the most recent yummy recipe I’ve made and can’t wait to try another. Keep em coming Natasha and I’ll keep making em . You have a big fan in Kansas .
Thank you so much for your compliments and great review, I absolutely love it!
AMAZING. I made the recipe exactly as is and made your spicy guacamole and oh my goodness so much deliciousness. My 5 year old approved too. I was gifted a slow cooker and thanks to you I can now use it! As a full time working mamma I need these type of recipes to make my life easier and still have homemade easy and yummy meals. Thank you!
That’s just awesome!! Thank you for sharing your wonderful review, Maria!
Natasha thank you so much for sharing your secrets kitchen tools with us! I am learning to cook with you I made again the go ahead breakfast sandwiches for Breakfast
We love them so delicious.
Everything is so good I love the fried rice with chicken.
Cant wait to explore more♥️
So grateful for you🙏🏼
Hello Reina. Thank you for sharing that with me. I’m glad that you’re learning a lot from my recipes.
kay I guess I’m kinda dumb, but I was wondering if you use concentrated lemon juice or lemonade that you drink. (in the picture above it looks like lemonade). Thanks! Can’t wait to try this recipe….looks and sounds so yummy!
Hi Tammy, that is a great question. That particular product is just pure lemon juice (not concentrate). It’s the same as squeezing fresh lemon juice.
Hi Natasha,
What can I substitute for the Ketchup?
Hi Sheila, I have always used ketchup so I can’t say for sure but maybe tomato sauce, although you would have to season to taste since ketchup has more salt and sugar in it and more flavor in general than tomato sauce.
For some odd reason, I didn’t have white vinegar on hand- only apple cider. (semi-bad Christopher)
But, from my sneak taste test after 6.5hrs of slow cooking, I think that the acv added a nice ‘sharpness’ and I’m very very pleased. The only addition to this yummy recipe- one large part sliced and part diced jalapeño pepper to the bottom for the chicken to ‘rest’ on while cooking.
My space smells incredible, but I need to get back to the kitchen to chop some toppings amd assemble. Mouth is watering! Thank you, as always, for sharing great eats!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for sharing that with me.