Slow-Cooker Mango Sriracha Pulled Chicken
Published Sep 20, 2013•Updated Apr 19, 2022
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Slow-Cooker Mango Sriracha Pulled Chicken is a simple pulled chicken made with sweet and spicy flavors from mango and sriracha in the slow-cooker.
Thanks to traffic, Bangkok seems to function about 15 minutes late. This is appropriate because my friends and husband will tell you that I run eternally 10 minutes late. Do the math on that one. It means that, on Bangkok time, I’m always 5 minutes early. Trafficky Bangkok for the win!
Last week, I was in a cab on the way to a 7am dentist appointment and, thanks to my cab driver’s “better route” through back alleys, it looked like I was going to make it by 7:02. I was feeling so timely until we reached a narrow intersection just as a double-decker bus rounded the bend. Back alleys in Bangkok are barely wide enough for a car and a motorbike, so forget about a double-decker bus loaded with tourists. Thus ensued a round of shouting in various languages, hands slapping out windows, and too many drivers who left their vehicles and stood around debating the best way to get the bus through. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, the bus finally inched its way around the corner and was headed off to some temple or another.
The taxi driver got back in the car, we both shrugged and laughed, and I made it to my appointment at 7:15.
15 minutes late – it’s unavoidable I tell ya.
For someone who is always running late, a slow-cooker is a dream come true.
Did I tell you I inherited a slow-cooker? My friend Anne gifted it to me when she moved home to the U.S. (Miss you Anne!!) This was a thrilling development because a) in hot Bangkok, a tiny slow-cooker is far preferable to a full-size noisy oven that heats up the whole house and b) I had big plans in mind for anything of the “pulled” variety – pulled chicken and pork immediately came to mind.
Being still new to the slow-cooking world, I went with two well-loved ingredients here – mango and Sriracha. The sweetness of the mango is so nice paired with the spicy red sauce and a hint of sour from rice vinegar. After the chicken cooked, I blended the remaining sauce and tender mango cubes and poured it over the chicken until it became a juicy, drippy, delightful mess.
Even Bangkok traffic can’t get the better of me when there’s a crockpot of pulled chicken waiting at home.
More Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes
- Slow Cooker Green Salsa Chicken
- Slow Cooker Hawaiian Chicken
- Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas
- Slow Cooker White Chicken Chili
- Slow Cooker Chicken and Biscuits
- BBQ Pulled Chicken
- Sweet Chili Chicken
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Slow-Cooker Mango Sriracha Pulled Chicken
Equipment
- 6-quart Slow Cooker
- Cutting Board
- Standing Blender or Immersion Blender
Ingredients
For the chicken:
- 2 pounds skinless chicken thighs (with the bone in or out)
- 1 large red onion, diced
- 1 1/2 cups roughly chopped mango (fresh or frozen will work)
- 1/4 cup low sodium chicken broth
- 2 Tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 Tablespoons Sriracha (spicy chili sauce – with the rooster on the front)
- 1 Tablespoon tomato paste
For serving and topping:
- Sandwich buns
- Sliced avocados
- Cilantro
- Asian Slaw (thinly sliced red and green cabbage tossed in rice vinegar, a bit of honey, and salt)
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients for the chicken in a crockpot and cook on high for 4 hours, until the chicken is tender and falls apart easily. Transfer the chicken to a cutting board and shred with two forks (discarding the bones if you used bone-in chicken thighs). Blend the sauce that remains in the crockpot in a blender or with a hand-blender. Taste and add salt, if needed. Toss the shredded chicken in the sauce until well-coated. (You may not need all of the sauce.)
- Serve on sandwich buns with any of the desired toppings above.
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Oh my gosh! This is delicious. I had already made my shredded chicken and was looking for a way to use it. So glad I came across this. I only had dried (unsweetened) mangos so I doubled the chicken broth to compensate for the lack of juice from the mangos. It came out amazing. I served it over lettuce with diced avocado.
Oh yum, Kristen! Thanks so much for letting me know. I’ve never tried it with dried mangos, but will have to give this a try. What a great idea and makes it super pantry-friendly.
I made this today and my family LOVED it! They even asked me to start making it more often.. Like once a week! 🙂 Thank you for sharing!
That’s awesome – thanks so much for the note Melissa – it’s definitely one of my favorite flavor combinations!
If you live in Bangkok, you may try the “Original Srirach”, its sell by SrirachaPanit. It has mid, hot and very hot.
My husband & I enjoyed this for dinner and loved it! We served it over a bed of basmati rice and it was delicious.
Thanks so much for letting me know, Becca – glad to hear you liked it!
Hi, what are the measurements for the Asian Slaw? I typed it in, but I couldn’t find an actual recipe for it.
Thank you.
Hi Norma – unfortunately, I don’t have a recipe for the Asian Slaw. I tend to just toss finely shredded cabbage and rice wine vinegar (sometimes a little honey and salt and pepper) until it tastes “right”. Next time I make it, I’ll measure everything out and post it though!
Thank you.