Honey Sauce Chicken

This reminds me a lot of the Sweet & Sour Chicken I make, but much less time consuming, and honey instead of sugar!  This recipe has hit Pinterest fame, so I figured I should give it a go.  It doesn't compare to Sweet & Sour Chicken, but then again this one takes about 1/5 of the time and is about 200% healthier :/  So...it's a good option when you are short on time and not trying to eat fried sugar chicken.

Honey Sauced Chicken

3/4 pound chicken (of your choice)

1/2 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. black pepper

1/2 cup honey

1/4 cup soy sauce

1/8 cup chopped onion (or 1/16 cup onion flakes)

1/8 cup ketchup

1 Tbs. vegetable oil

1 clove garlic, minced

1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes

Season both sides of chicken with salt and pepper, put into crock pot. In a small bowl, combine honey, soy sauce, onion, ketchup, oil, garlic and pepper flakes. Pour over chicken. Cook on low for 3 hours or on high 1 1/2 hours. Chicken into bite size pieces, then return to pot and toss with sauce. Serve over rice or noodles.

To bake chicken as a 30 minute meal:

Dice chicken and season both sides with salt and pepper, place in 8x8 pan. Pour sauce over chicken and bake at 350 for 20 minutes, stirring after 10 minutes.

Serves 2