Chicken From A Crock Pot

Have you ever been intimidated with cooking a whole chicken?  Well, with a crock pot, you don't have to be.  The only messy part you have to deal with is cleaning out the chicken, because the pot will take care of it all and put your headache to rest!  The chicken comes out full of flavor and falls of the bone so quickly that you don't even have time to catch it.  Yes, let's all drool a little...

Slow-Cooked Whole Chicken

Ingredients
- 1 ~3 lbs whole chicken
- 1 large yellow onion, roughly chopped
- 4 stalks of green onions, roughly chopped
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp dark soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp sesame oil
- 1 Tbsp salt
- 2 tsp black pepper

Tools
- crock pot

Steps
1. Place chicken in a large contain and add chopped onions and green onions.  Combine liquid ingredients, salt, and pepper and rub all over chicken.  Marinate chicken for about 12 hours (or overnight) in the refrigerator.

2. Place chicken, vegetables, and liquid goods in the crock pot and turn on High.  Cook for about 3 hours.  Use thermometer to check if chicken is done. (Wow, two steps?  That's it??)

Serves 6-8.

Just one tip...
...because the chicken is slow-cooked, it is very tender and very delicate.  I had some issues taking the chicken out of the crock pot without breaking up the entire chicken.  In the end, I used a straight meat fork and the outside part of the tongs to carefully (and I mean really carefully) take it out.  Just use a little patience and steady hands.

Blanched green beans and chicken... a great combo.