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Easy Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken with Chicken Breasts

4 hours 5 minutes
By: Pamela Reed
Posted:8/15/22
Updated:3/19/25
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Juicy, tender, and perfectly smoky, this crockpot recipe for shredded barbecue chicken is made with chicken breasts. You can serve the pulled chicken on a soft bun, or with egg noodles to catch every bit of that BBQ goodness!

closeup of barbecue chicken on spoon in slow cooker.

Easy Crockpot Barbecue Chicken

This easy recipe for pulled BBQ chicken is juicy, tender, and coated in a sweet, smoky sauce! Made in the crockpot, it’s perfect on buns, or as a tasty side with your favorite salad.

Once the chicken breasts are done cooking, you have the option to leave the chicken whole and serve next to your fav bbq loving sides (mac and cheese! potato chips! corn on the cob! you get it.), or you can shred the chicken up to serve on sandwich rolls (this is our go to favorite way!).

This recipe calls for 2-3 pounds of chicken breasts. We are a family of 5, so this makes enough for dinner + leftovers for the next day! When serving leftovers, we love it simply served over rice or for bbq chicken pizza!

Looking for more crockpot chicken recipes? Try my Cheesy Crockpot Chicken and Broccoli, Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings and Slow Cooker Butter Chicken next.

closeup of bbq chicken sandwich with pickles on on plate next to bbq chips.

How to Make Barbecue Chicken in the Slow Cooker

Place chicken breasts at the bottom of the slow cooker.

chicken breasts on bottom of slow cooker.

In a small bowl mix up the barbecue sauce, Italian salad dressing, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce and liquid smoke. A little note about BBQ sauce: it matters. Choose a BBQ sauce that you know tastes good and is a favorite, for us it’s either homemade BBQ sauce or Sweet Baby Ray’s.

spoon stirring bbq sauce in red bowl.

Place sauce mixture on top of chicken in slow cooker.

chicken breasts covered in sauce in slow cooker.

Cook until chicken is fully cooked

cooked barbecue chicken breasts in slow cooker.

Here’s where it’s your choice: serve the chicken breasts whole with your fav sides, or shred up for a chicken sandwich. I usually prefer to shred up the chicken and serve on buns, so I shred it up, add back to slow cooker and let it sit for an hour more to soak up the sauce.

shredded bbq chicken in slow cooker.

Serve and enjoy these bbq chicken sandwiches. I love mine stacked with pickles, next to potato chips! It’s the perfect Summer meal!

shredded bbq chicken on top of bun on pink plate.

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Easy barbecue chicken made in the crockpot in 4 hours. This makes juicy, tender BBQ chicken! Serve on buns or alongside your favorite side dishes!
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Juicy, tender, and perfectly smoky, this crockpot recipe for shredded barbecue chicken is made with chicken breasts. You can serve the pulled chicken on a soft bun, or with egg noodles to catch every bit of that BBQ goodness!
By: Pamela Reed
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 4 hours hours
Total Time 4 hours hours 5 minutes minutes
serves 6

Ingredients

  • 2-3 pounds skinless, boneless chicken breasts
  • 1 (12 ounce bottle) barbecue sauce
  • 1/2 cup Italian salad dressing
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 teaspoon liquid smoke

Instructions

  • Place chicken into the bottom of the slow cooker.
  • In a small bowl mix barbecue sauce, Italian salad dressing, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce and liquid smoke until well combined. Pour this mixture on top of chicken in the slow cooker.
  • Close the lid and cook on HIGH for 4 hours or LOW for 7 hours. Serve chicken as is with your favorite sides, or shred the chicken up and serve on buns. If you are shredding it up for chicken sandwiches, I recommend cooking on HIGH for 3 hours, shred the chicken and then cook on HIGH for 1 more hour. By shredding it up and cooking longer it really absorbs all the juicy barbecue flavor.

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Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Keyword: crockpot barbecue chicken
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