These family friendly slow cooker teriyaki chicken legs are a crowd pleaser. Using a sugar-free, homemade teriyaki sauce, this easy chicken recipe is healthy too being low-carb, paleo, and Whole30 compatible. Instructions to make teriyaki chicken legs in the Instant Pot are also included.
How To Make Teriyaki Chicken Legs In the Crockpot
- Add the chicken legs to the bottom of the slow cooker.
- In a small bowl, mix together sauce ingredients. Pour sauce on top of chicken legs.
- Cook HIGH 2-3 hours or LOW 4-6.
- Garnish with sesame seeds & green onions if using.
- Add the chicken legs to the bottom of the pressure cooker.
- In a small bowl, mix together sauce ingredients. Pour sauce on top of chicken legs.
- Close lid and seal vent. Select high pressure for 15 minutes. When cooking time is complete, quick release the pressure.
- Garnish with sesame seeds & green onions if using.
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FAQs & Tips
What size slow cooker or Instant Pot will you need?
I used a 6-quart slow cooker or Instant Pot.
Can you use another cut of chicken?
As with a lot of my recipes, you can actually use your preferred cut of chicken here, not just chicken legs. If you use white meat you will want to lower the slow cooker cook time by an hour or so and the pressure cooker cook time by 3 minutes. White meat does not take as long to cook as dark meat.
How do you thicken the sauce?
Thickening the sauce can be done directly in the slow cooker or Instant Pot. I almost always use an slurry of arrowroot and water to thicken my sauce. You can make your slurry as thick as you want. If you’re using arrowroot flour/starch, use a 1:1 water/starch ratio. I use 2 tbsp of water mixed with 2 tbsp flour and pour it into the appliance.
PrintSlow Cooker Teriyaki Chicken Legs
These family friendly slow cooker teriyaki chicken legs are a crowd pleaser. Using a sugar-free, homemade teriyaki sauce, this easy chicken recipe is healthy too being low-carb, paleo, and Whole30 compatible. Instructions to make teriyaki chicken legs in the Instant Pot are also included.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 3 hours
- Total Time: 3 hours 10 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
- 3 pounds chicken legs
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame seeds (optional garnish)
- 1 green onion, sliced (optional garnish)
- 3/4 cup coconut aminos or low-sodium soy sauce
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- Pinch salt & pepper
Instructions
- Add the chicken legs to the bottom of the slow cooker.
- In a small bowl, mix together sauce ingredients. Pour sauce on top of chicken legs.
- Cook HIGH 2-3 hours or LOW 4-6.
- Garnish with sesame seeds & green onions if using.
- Add the chicken legs to the bottom of the pressure cooker.
- In a small bowl, mix together sauce ingredients. Pour sauce on top of chicken legs.
- Close lid and seal vent. Select high pressure for 15 minutes. When cooking time is complete, quick release the pressure.
- Garnish with sesame seeds & green onions if using.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 444
- Sugar: 0 g
- Sodium: 807.8 mg
- Fat: 14.4 g
- Saturated Fat: 3.6 g
- Carbohydrates: 8.3 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 65.2 g
- Cholesterol: 309.4 mg
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Love this recipe!!! They always turn out so good and tender. Perfectly paired with rice with the sauce drizzled over. Don’t leave out the green onions, it gives it that extra crunch.
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Loved these easy and tasty drumsticks and they were gobbled up by my picky 3 year old! I used the directions for the instant pot method and made them in my Ninja foodi pressure cooker. I think mine cooks a little different so I bumped up the time to 15 minutes. But the results were delicious, fall off the bone drumsticks. Definitely will be making again.
This recipe is easy and delicious. It will be in regular rotation!
This was super easy to pull together. The hardest part was not eating it all once the chicken was done, as I still needed to cook my rice and put my salad together. I used chicken thighs for my dish. The flavor set in all the way to the bone. So good!
This was so easy and so flavorful! I loved that I could throw it in the slow cooker in the morning and it was ready by dinner. I put some fresh snow peas in the slow cooker in the last 30 minutes to make it a full meal. I bet it’d be good with broccoli too! I’ll try that next time 🙂
Great pic- I can practically taste the teriyaki!