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Garlic Honey Chicken Freezer MealPopular

Garlic Honey Chicken Freezer Meal

Make ahead of time, store in the freezer, pop it in the crockpot for an easy meal!

30 min560 cal50g proteinServes 4131 saves
Amy BushAmy Bush

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts
  • 5 garlic cloves, minced
  • 2/3 cup soy sauce
  • 1 1/3 cup ketchup
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/2 tsp onion powder
  • 3 Green onions
  • 1 tbsp Sesame seeds

Instructions

  1. 1Add all ingredients to a gallon Ziploc bag.
  2. 2When ready to cook, set the frozen bag in the fridge overnight.
  3. 3Add the contents of the bag to the crockpot with 1 cup of water.
  4. 4Cook on high for 3-4 hours or on low for 5-6 hours.
  5. 5Serve over white rice.
  6. 6Garnish with green onions & sesame seeds

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Freezer meals are the closest thing home cooking has to a superpower — one afternoon of prep and dinner is handled for the next four weeks.

Cooks on Pepper share this collection because every recipe freezes cleanly, thaws without turning grainy, and cooks straight from frozen when the day gets away from you.

Every recipe here is designed for the freezer from the start — assembled raw in bags for the crockpot, or fully cooked and portioned for the microwave.

Quick Tips

  1. 1

    Label with the cook method

    Include temp and time on every bag — future-you doesn't remember.

  2. 2

    Lay bags flat to freeze

    A flat frozen bag thaws twice as fast and stacks like books in the freezer.

  3. 3

    Undercook the pasta

    Pasta finishes cooking during reheat — al dente going in means perfect texture coming out.

  4. 4

    Skip the potatoes

    Potatoes turn mealy in the freezer — swap for sweet potato or cauliflower instead.

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