Extremely flavourful chicken

I recently found this crock pot honey garlic chicken dish using chicken breasts. The ingredients are really simple, so I decided to try making it. It was especially useful on these work-from-home days, because I can dump everything into the pot in the morning, and it would be ready by lunchtime.

So today I made this dish. I didn't have chilli garlic sauce, so I used chilli flakes instead (those from Domino's).

ingredients

into the pot

shredding the chicken after it's cooked

after putting the shredded chicken back into the pot

close-up (though we can't see much anyway)

I think I put too much seasoning for my small portion of chicken. The chicken tasted good when I was shredding it (of course I had to try some!), but after simmering the shredded bits in the sauce again, the taste became overpowering. It was too sweet and too salty to be eaten on its own. And I could hardly taste the garlic and the chilli.

For lunch, I had it with rice and some steamed ladies' fingers. I think it would have been good with lots of white rice, but I'm not the kind who eats a lot of rice...

At night I decided that the strong flavour had to be balanced out with something...so I made a poke"bowl".

It's not in a bowl.

after mixing

It was okay... not bad, but not too good either. I guess the chicken doesn't go too well with fresh vegetables. The recipe tells us to use steamed or stir-fried vegetables, and I believe that. But I didn't have much choice in the veggies left in my fridge!

Tomorrow the plan is to make a sandwich with the chicken... if the photo turns out well, I might post again. :P