Slow Cooker Bourbon Pulled Chicken

Slow Cooker Bourbon Pulled Chicken isn’t just for Game Night, it’s great for any time you’re feeding a crowd. Bourbon and a molasses barbecue sauce are perfect with chicken. An EASY and healthy dish that everyone will love.

All we are thinking about right now is our Kentucky Wildcats, last nights’ game was jut a little too close for comfort.  This has lead to a Kentucky theme with my cooking. Other than basketball, Kentucky is pretty well known for it’s bourbon.  The Makers Mark distillary is fairly close to where my husband grew up, but in the “wet”county next door. I’m going to run in the Bourbon 1/2 marathon outside of Lexington in June, what a great name for a race.  So this bourbon flavored pulled chicken sounded too good to pass up.

It took less than 5 minutes to put together in the slow cooker and then I just left it for a few hours and we had the most amazing pulled chicken you can image. If you didn’t know, you would never guess it had 3/4 cup of bourbon in it.

Sometimes when you add bourbon to baked goods, you can really identify the bourbon flavor, but not with this chicken. Since it cooks so slowly, the meat is tenderized and absorbs the rich flavor from the bourbon and the molasses.  The result is a slightly sweet, spicy pulled chicken that would be great for a crowd.  I had lots to freeze with just the two of us.  Since it’s cooked without the skin, there is very little grease, just a great bourbon barbecue flavor that isn’t as sweet as the traditional barbecue sauces you see in the grocery. You could easily add bacon or slaw to the top, but I thought it was great all by itself. 

 

Slightly adapted from Cooking for Keeps

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