Around this house Wednesday nights are deemed crock-pot nights, especially during marathon training season. My training group meets on Wednesdays at 6:30, right at dinner time. Using the slow cooker makes it easy for Andy to eat dinner and not have to wait for me, and when I get home dinner is ready. I was getting sick of our normal pulled pork so I went on the search for something new. That is when I found this pineapple teriyaki chicken recipe on Spark People.

I had all of the ingredients already {not shown-brown sugar & pepper}. I was excited to use my new, smaller crock-pot I picked up from Target for just $10. The one I normally use is huge, this one is perfect to make a meal for two people.

I cut the original recipe in half and added green peppers.

What you need:

1/4-1/2 cup of pineapple juice

1/4-1/2 cup soy sauce

1 tablespoon brown sugar

handful of green peppers

couple twists of fresh ground pepper

pineapple slices

1 pound of chicken (I used 6 strips cut into cubes)

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In a bowl mix pineapple juice, soy sauce, brown sugar, & pepper in a bowl

Place chicken in crock-pot

Place pineapples on the chicken

Pour mixture in

Add green peppers

Cook on low for 7 hours

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I served mine with Trader Joe’s brown rice. It only takes three minutes to make!

I didn’t thicken up the sauce and I wish I did. The chicken was on the dry side but had a good amount of flavor. Next time I will also reserve some fresh pineapple to put on top after the meal is prepared. I think this would be great with some broccoli added as well!

 Overall I really liked this meal, it was super easy to make! It will be something I make again soon. That puts my total to three crock-pot meals I can make. Now that I have the smaller crock-pot I hope to try more things (the larger one burnt a lot of food).

What crock-pot meals to you have to share?