BBQ Chicken Sandwiches - Crock Pot

Ohhhhhhhh my.

So this is my newest favorite meal to make.

It was SO.EASY. 

And delicious. 

My husband is from the Kansas City area, the land of the BEST barbecue. (I will not be entertaining any arguments from any Memphis style BBQ fans. Bleh). We also had catered BBQ at our wedding. So I appreciate some good BBQ. And this BBQ chicken was great! I chose to cook it in the crock pot, which made it oh so simple, but cooking it on the stove top would also be easy. (I'll include directions for that below).

In my recipe, I've doubled the amount of sauce you make vs the original recipe in my cookbook, because I personally like my BBQ to be drowning in sauce.

So if you're in India and you have a crock pot, you've probably figured out by now that they tend to cook things on like, supercharged power, so it takes less time than in America. I would only recommend cooking this in the crock pot for about 4-5 hours on low here, but you'd probably need to up that time in America some and either do high for 4-5 hours or low for 6-7.

Hope you enjoy these as much as we did! I adapted the recipe from a cookbook I got here, so all the ingredients are available :)  (well, assuming you have some brown sugar).

BBQ Chicken Sandwiches

2 chicken breasts, thawed not frozen

3/4 cup onions, finely chopped

5-6 garlic cloves, minced

2 TBS oil (I used olive, but you could use vegetable)

1- 1 1/2 cups ketchup

1 1/2 TBS vinegar (the recipe says apple cider is best, but I only had white)

7 TBS brown sugar

2 tsp. salt

2 tsp. cumin

A few shakes of red pepper flakes

I sprayed my crock pot with cooking spray, and then added a splash of water (seriously a splash, hardly any) in the bottom just to keep the sauce from drying out or burning. Place the chicken in the crock pot.

In a bowl, combine all the other ingredients and stir together. Pour the sauce over the chicken. Cook on low for 4-5 hours (if you're in India, longer in America).

About 20-30 minutes before eating, take the chicken out and shred it, then return it to the crock pot and stir to mix. If the sauce is too runny, you can stir in a little extra ketchup and brown sugar, then let it cook the extra 30 minutes with the lid off to thicken up.
 Serve with burger buns (I just bought some from the grocery store...which I've never completely understood why they have those when they don't eat hamburgers...) They're extra tasty if you spread some butter on the buns and then toast them on a  griddle or in the oven first!

** Stovetop directions:  Sautee the onions and garlic in the oil for 5 minutes. Add all the other ingredients, except the chicken, and simmer for about 5 minutes. Stir in the 2 precooked chicken breasts, either shredded or diced. Simmer for a couple more minutes for the chicken to absorb some flavor.