Crockpot Garlic Chicken with Lime is melt in your mouth chicken with highlights of garlic and lime and is easy to make in a crockpot. The recipe is quick and easy with minimal prep time while the oh so handy crockpot does the cooking!

For the love of crockpot meals like our garlic chicken with lime!

Needless to say, we love our crockpot because many a great meal has come from our beloved crockpot like our Crock Pot Christmas Brown Sugar Ham, Crockpot Pot Roast, and Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings!!

What is your favorite cooking method?

If your looking at our recipe, then it sounds like you must have a crockpot! And with said crockpot doing all the cooking, it leaves you with precious time on your hands.

Time to get things done or do some baking such as our Cranberry Pistachio Christmas Shortbread Cookies or our Shortbread and Scotland Scottish shortbread cookies.

Hey, we are a food blog after all AND Christmas IS coming….just offering ideas!

Hint, hint!

What do you get when you mix garlic, chicken, and lime in a crockpot?

A darn tasty meal, that’s what! We even impressed ourselves with how unbelievably moist and tender the chicken came out!

The combined flavors of the garlic and lime not only heightened the greatness of the chicken but also marinated it to fall apart, melt in your mouth goodness!

Ingredients

You will need the following ingredients:

• 1 whole chicken (5 – 6 pounds), with any giblets removed.
• 3-4 cloves of garlic, mashed
• Pinch of Kosher salt (to help grind up the garlic)
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 1 lime, quartered
• Kosher salt and pepper to taste.

Directions

• Line the bottom of the crock pot with foil, for easier clean up. (Hey, anything to simplify things!)
• Pat the chicken dry, and rub 2/3 of the garlic paste onto it.
  • Mix a pinch of kosher salt into the garlic cloves and mash into a paste.
• Take the rest of the garlic paste and smear inside the cavity.
• Take 2 pieces of lime, and juice them over the top of the garlic. After that, place the other 2 pieces into the cavity.
• Optional: add several pats of butter to top off chicken.
• Sprinkle with Kosher salt and pepper to taste.
• Place into the crockpot, then add in the chicken broth.
• Set on low and let cook for about 8 hours or until done with a light brown to the top.

We did add pats of butter to the top as well but it is not necessary…really, this food blog is exposing too much of our butter addiction!

Tips and safety

As always, use a meat thermometer to ensure the chicken is cooked thoroughly at an internal temp of 165 degrees F. For more information about food safety go here: https://www.foodsafety.gov/food-safety-charts/safe-minimum-cooking-temperature

Make sure your chicken is thawed out as well. Also, don’t forget to remove the innards!

We mention Kosher salt to help grind the garlic into a paste as it is coarser than table salt. That being said, feel free to use whatever salt you have on hand for taste.

Make it easier on juicing the lime by microwaving it for a few seconds at a time and then rolling it against the counter to help release the juices.

You can use reduced fat and sodium store bought chicken broth if you like. We used our Homemade Turkey Stock in this recipe and it sure adds depth to an already wonderful recipe!

Wrap up and last minute thoughts

We are in full swing prepping and baking our Christmas recipes for the blog. However, we still have to eat but the last thing we really want to do, after spending all day in the kitchen, is slave over a hot stove for ourselves

Now, more than ever, we appreciate our crockpot! Especially when a meal comes out sooo tasty and tender like our Crockpot Garlic Chicken with Lime recipe.

The meat is moist, tender, with a nice balance of garlic and hint of lime. Add in a nice side dish or veggie and dinner is served.

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Crock Pot Garlic Chicken with Lime

Recipe by yvonneCourse: DinnerCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

10

minutes

Cooking time

8

hours 

Calories

335

kcal

Total time

8

hours 

10

minutes

Crockpot Garlic Chicken with Lime is melt in your mouth chicken with highlights of garlic and lime and is easy to make in a crockpot. The recipe is quick and easy with minimal prep time while the oh so handy crockpot does the cooking!

Ingredients

• 1 whole chicken (5 – 6 pounds), with any giblets removed.

• 3-4 cloves of garlic, mashed

• Pinch of Kosher salt (to help grind up the garlic)

• 1/2 cup chicken broth
  

• 1 lime, quartered.

• Kosher salt and pepper to taste.

• Optional: pats of butter

Directions

• Line the bottom of the crock pot with foil, for easier clean up.
  
• Pat the chicken dry, and rub 2/3 of the garlic paste onto it.
  Take the rest of the garlic paste and smear inside the cavity.
  
  ****Mix a pinch of kosher salt into the garlic gloves and mash into a paste****
• Take 2 pieces of lime, and juice them over the top of the garlic.
  Place the other 2 pieces into the cavity.
  
  Optional: add several pats of butter to top off chicken.
  
• Sprinkle with Kosher salt and pepper to taste.
• Place into the crockpot, add in the chicken broth.
  Set it for low, and leave it alone. In 8 hours, dinner will be ready.
  Serve with veggies and a pasta dish, if desired.

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