Honey Sesame Chicken

It was my turn to host Sunday dinner yesterday, this is a crock pot meal and I knew it was exactly what I needed!  Based on the number of Christmas treats and goodies I needed to get made, I needed the fastest meal possible!  This ended up being very good, a little bit of sweet and a little bit of kick, moist and oh so easy! 

Most of the ingredients are fairly standard, maybe just need some fresh green onions and some sesame seeds (not pictured), but those you can get in bulk at Winco, since you only need a couple of tablespoons. 
So after your chicken is in the crock pot, you can turn it on low at this point if you wanted, mix almost everything else up in bowl.  Cutting up an onion was the longest step, so you can tell this goes pretty fast.  Once your sauce is mixed up, pour that over the chicken.  You will want to move, lift, shift around the chicken to make sure all the surfaces have at least some sauce on them.  Once that is done, put the lid on and let the crock pot magic begin!  You can do this on either high or low, depending on how quickly you need this.  My chicken was mostly thawed, you could put them in frozen if you had more time to let it cook.
When it is done cooking, should look like this:

Also, at this point, you should have some rice already cooking.  Take the chicken out to shred it up.  With the sauce in the crock pot, put some cornstarch and water in a small bowl and mix it up, add that to your sauce.  Turn your crock pot to high so the sauce will start to bubble and get thick.  Once that has happened I added my chicken back into the sauce for serving.  You could serve separately if you so desired.
To serve, place a spoonful onto your rice and garnish with sesame seeds and sliced green onions.

Enjoy!
Honey Sesame Chicken (in the crock pot)

4-6 chicken breasts
salt and pepper
1/3 C. diced onion
2 Cloves garlic, minced
1/2 C. honey
1/4 C. ketchup
1/2 C. soy sauce
2 Tbls olive oil
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
4 tsp cornstarch
1/3 C. water
1-2 Tbls sesame seeds
3 green onions, chopped

Directions:
1. Place chicken in crock pot and lightly season all sides with salt and pepper.
2. In a medium bowl combine the onion, garlic, honey, ketchup, soy sauce and red pepper flakes.  Pour over chicken.  Cook on low for 3-4 hours or high for 2 hours.
3. Remove chicken to cutting board, leaving sauce.  Shred chicken, set aside.
4. In a small bowl dissolve the cornstarch in the water, add to crock pot.  Stir to combine with sauce.  Cover and cook on high for 10 minutes until sauce thickens.  Add the chicken back in before serving.
5. To serve, put a spoonful of meat and sauce onto rice and sprinkle with sesame seeds and green onions.