Slow Cooker Cashew Chicken Teriyaki
It wasn’t until a phone call I had with someone in New York last week that I realized most people consider slow cookers to be for fall and winter dishes. From reading my Facebook page, though, I know that most of us (you and I) LOVE our slow cooker in the summer time. There is nothing like having supper ready on a day when it’s 100+ degrees outside and not having to turn on your oven. A slow cooker sure does keep your kitchen a whole lot cooler!
So today I’m bringing you my latest slow cooker recipe that I dreamed up last week. I love chicken teriyaki and I also love cashew chicken so a combination of my favorite ingredients turned out to be a supper that I loved so much, we’re having it again tonight 
.
Before we go into that though, lets talk about your weekend. Did you have a good one? Ours involved a trip to Sam’s club, a drive through the car wash, and taking the kids to play in the fountains at a local shopping center. On Sunday we went to church and then participated in our church’s first family fun night last night where we all got to watch the premier of the Princess and the Pop Star, the latest VeggieTales movie. After that we had an ice cream social in the church’s gym. I thought our weekend was fun, of course, but since we didn’t travel anywhere or do anything specifically planned it seemed low key to me (I’m used to planning these big Hallmark moment weekend adventures, I can’t help it).
I realized I was very wrong this morning when Katy got up and said “Mama, wasn’t this weekend a blast? It was more fun than playing on a rainbow!”.
Wow! More fun than playing on a rainbow? Now THAT is some kind of fun!
Now keep in mind that the main money we spent this weekend was on groceries. Other than that and the gas we used just piddling around, we may have handed over a whopping $20 total. So to anyone who thinks great time together as a family has to cost a lot of money, here is a recap:
Folks, Katy is right, this is the life!
Check out today’s quote at the bottom of the page for another dose of perspective but in the meantime, I suppose we gotta eat…
You’ll need: Chicken tenderloins, Teriyaki marinade and sauce, cashews…
and rice.
This is my favorite rice. You can get it near the Asian foods section, it usually isn’t near the regular rice. It’s kind of almond shaped and a friend of mine who is from Korea refers to it as “sticky rice”.
My Mama (and consequently myself) was raised eating rice for breakfast. We like to take hot rice and stir some butter and sugar into it for a quick breakfast, lunch, or even a sweet evening treat. I call it sweet rice and this brand makes the best on earth!
You’ll also need some type of veggie to toss in there towards the end. Go with what your family likes. I just used these.
I put them in the microwave for about two minutes, just enough to thaw them out a bit, then poured them in the slow cooker. One box was plenty and they are so good! You can also use fresh sugar snap peas if you like or any other vegetable that cranks your tractor.
Place your chicken in your slow cooker.
Pour in one cup of teriyaki sauce and add in your cashews if you want them to be cooked and tender.
*If you prefer your cashews to stay crunchy, add them in the next step.
Cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours or on high for 3-4 hours.
Lots of folks might prefer water chestnuts or even peanuts to cashews. If that is you then go for it!
Water chestnuts make me cringe every time I bite into one so I try to avoid them and really only use them in my cooking when I make Chicken lettuce wraps(click here for that recipe), but they’re diced pretty fine for that so they aren’t as noticeable.
After your chicken is fully cooked, add in some sugar snap peas if you like, or other vegetables.
Stir that up and cover again until your veggies are tender.
Serve over rice and enjoy!
This supper is easy, delicious, and easily customizable for your family.
Ingredients
- Chicken (4 boneless skinless breasts or 8-10 chicken tenders)
- 9 ounce package frozen sugar snap peas (or veggie of your choice), thawed
- 1 Cup Teriyaki Marinade and Sauce (I used low sodium - because it is what I grabbed first)
- 1 Cup Cashews (can substitute water chestnuts or peanuts)
Instructions
- Place chicken in slow cooker. Add sauce. Add in nuts if you prefer them tender but if you want them crunchy wait until step #3.
- Cover and cook on low 7-8 hours or on high 3-4
- Thirty minutes before serving add in thawed vegetables and nuts (if you didn't in step #1). Cover and cook another thirty minutes.
- Serve over rice and enjoy!
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Ingredients
- Chicken (4 boneless skinless breasts or 8-10 chicken tenders)
- 9 ounce package frozen sugar snap peas (or veggie of your choice), thawed
- 1 Cup Teriyaki Marinade and Sauce (I used low sodium - because it is what I grabbed first)
- 1 Cup Cashews (can substitute water chestnuts or peanuts)
Instructions
- Place chicken in slow cooker. Add sauce. Add in nuts if you prefer them tender but if you want them crunchy wait until step #3.
- Cover and cook on low 7-8 hours or on high 3-4
- Thirty minutes before serving add in thawed vegetables and nuts (if you didn't in step #1). Cover and cook another thirty minutes.
- Serve over rice and enjoy!
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My cousin puts her slow cooker on her covered porch and then has even that bit of heat out of her kitchen. She also fixes her iced tea by the gallon early in the day and puts it in the freezer so that it will be slush by mid afternoon and requires less ice. Isn’t she clever?
I use my slow cooker all year. Especially when it is so hot. NC is brutal right now. This recipe looks just fantastic. Come over and visit us. We have a really wonderful grilled squash recipe today.
Sounds like a great summer supper….but best of all is your mention of rice for breakfast!!!! I love it with sugar and butter…I just can’t seem to convince my husband that (1) rice is for breakfast and (2) it should have butter and sugar on it! (I also can’t convince him that tomatoes and gravy are great with biscuits….of course for breakfast!). He doesn’t know what he’s missing! Thanks for making me smile!
I have a QUILT quote for you, Christy. No idea of the source.
The World is a quilt, each of us a tiny stitch placed with love and care by the maker, with the sole purpose of holding it together for generations to come.
I like that!!!!!!
Love me some sticky rice, that is a korean thing along with mondu. i will have to try this recipe, my son has been hungry for teriyaki. never thought of slow cookin’ it. I have a bottle of garlic teriyaki that is so stout it would ward off vampires for a country mile!
Great smiles, about your weekend, and the teriyaki chicken looks scrumptuous. Have all the recipes in my pantry and fridge, and going to give it a try today! And thanks for the idea. Always fun to hear from you, Christy!
I was just trying to figure out something to put in the slow cooker for dinner tonight (something with chicken)… I am so happy to have seen this on FaceBook!! Can’t wait to try it! Thanks, Christy!
I’ve never heard of eating rice for breakfast, but it sounds good! I love my slow cooker. I made a pretty good chocolate cake in it once too!
Sure do miss your postings on my Facebook page and in my e-mail. I realize you’re really busy, but all of us out here really really miss your posts and stories. When is your life going to slow down so we can enjoy you again? One of the highlights of my days would be if you had sent a post with a video from home.
Miss you Bunches!
Wendy
Hey Wendy!
I wonder what Fb page you’re going to? I post several times a day on my fb, beginning with a good morning message each day. I also send out three to four emails each week and always have, but that will understandably slow as I get into writing my next book.
Please check out my Fb page at
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Christy
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Christy, I’m with Wendy. I sent you an e-mail last week and tried to re-subscribe. I am not getting any of your “daily” e-mails. I have to go into your website to see what you are posting; ie, this chicken teriyaki recipe did not show up in my e-mail. I had to go into your website. I’m not sure what is wrong, but like Wendy, I miss seeing your posts show up on my e-mails. Do you suppose there are some gremlins at work?
Hey Janice! I responded to Wendy just a bit ago via email and I sent you an email last week in response to yours. Can you check your junk folder? I was sure you’d gotten my email last week and I went in and found your subscription and made sure it was on the up and up. I think most likely your email program is viewing southernplate.com emails as spam I’m afraid, which has to be fixed on your end. You can go in and “unflag” them as spam or enter in my email addresses as “approved” in your program.
Hope this helps!
Gratefully,
Christy
I don’t think gremlins are at work but I would not be shocked if we found a few
. What I’d really like is some elves though! 
Christy, did you find that Calrose rice in Walmart, too? I love rice, that one sounds good!
Thanks,
Denise
This is a fabulous idea! I cooked chicken in my crock pot last night. I would be lost without it in the summer time! A great way to beat the heat a little bit. Thanks for another simple and wonderful recipe
You know, I have an empty fridge (It’s grocery shopping day), but I do have chicken in the freezer and teriyaki in the cupboard…it’s on!
I misread what Lindsay wrote and thought she said she had children in the freezer!! LOL!! I sure did a double take, Lindsay!!
Christy, I don’t think that this recipe could be any easier! Can’t wait to try it this week!! Thanks so much and keep em’ coming!!
If you wait to stir in the cashews until just before serving, they will remain crisp. Cooking them tends to make them rubbery!
I know what we will have for dinner tomorrow night. In fact, there will be enough to share with the folks next door. We are out of cashews AGAIN – can’t seem to keep them – they disappear like they are chocolate around here. Today is a “get it done in the house and garden day” so won’t shop until this evening. Hubby and I both love Cashew Chicken and Teriyaki Chicken, so my mouth is watering already!
Have been having your iced coffee on these hot summer mornings. I’ve learned that 2 1/2 packets of Splenda does it for me and I add a tad of chocolate syrup for the mocha I crave.
Love your posts almost as much as I love you!
Rice with butter, a little milk (or half and half) brown sugar and cinnamon is how we grew up eating it for breakfast. I love cooking rice in my microwave, keeps the house cool, and is sooo easy. I bought a bunch of boneless skinless chicken breasts the other day on mark down, and came home and threw them in the crock pot. Now they are in bags in the freezer for quick and easy dinners. Then last night I did the same thing with a half priced pork loin from Aldi. So good. It will be dinner for a couple more nights. Love my crock pots.
Another great idea, Christy. I think some mushrooms would also be good in this. Also maybe some green onions, chopped. I would add both about 30 minutes before serving. You are the greatest!
More fun than playing on a rainbow? I love that expression! May “steal” it and use it with students.
My Cuban husband thinks that it is heretical that I eat butter and sugar on my rice. He just looks at me and shudders. I’m glad I’m not the only “heretic” out there!
I love my slow cooker, wouldnt know what to do without one. This recipe looks really good, i will have to try it soon.
Teriyaki sauce is easy to make from scratch: I use multiples of 1/4 c. each of sugar,soy sauce ( I use low sodium),and cooking sherry (or rice vinegar),and 1 tsp. ginger, 1 Tbs. oil.and mix. So for a cup double first 3 ingred.. my family likes to soak their rice in the sauce so I usually do 3/4 c of each.
As for rice for breakfast we always had brown sugar, cinnamon, and milk–yummy.
Man – does this sound good!! Mushrooms and chopped green onions sound like the perfect addition here. I’ll have to get some of these items on my next shopping list.
We ate rice for breakfast as kids but my mom added raisins and we ate it with milk and sugar like oatmeal. I use rice as a single serving side dish as I live alone. Sprinkle hot cooked rice with butter or olive oil and some salt, pepper and garlic powder. It makes a nice change from a potato and if I have any little bits of leftovers such as peas or mixed veggies I toss them in too. Add diced chicken or ham and I have an all in one lunch that is quick and easy. Another easy dish with cooked rice is too stir it into a couple lightly beaten eggs with any leftover meat, and veggies you might have and saute in butter till eggs are set. I love to add diced onions and bell peppers and maybe some mushrooms. Can vary widely with the add ins. Try bacon and cheese. Your creativeness can run wild!
I grew up in the “rice capitol of the world” and NEVER had rice any way except with butter, sugar and cream /milk. I was astonished when I went off to college that we were served rice with gravy instead of mashed potatoes and gravy.
I must add however, I think others who grew up when I did, had rice a lot of different ways. Apparently, my family thought of rice as a cereal-type grain.
I agree with Vikki I think I would like green onions and mushrooms in this. My slowcooker has been a blessing in this heat wave. I have really been bad about wanting to cook and it is much cooler to use my slowcooker than my oven or stove top.
Have you ever used liners for your slow cooker? They are absolutely wonderful. Makes clean-up a breeze! I find them in the aisle with waxed paper and aluminum foil.
please send how to treat black skillets cannot find it. want to try this recipe
sounds great and easy. thanks linda
I’ve never had rice with butter & sugar before. I did have some friends that were from Iowa and they said that when they came to Florida they tried grits for the first time and loved them. I asked how they ate them and they said with milk & sugar instead of the usual butter & salt. Bless their pea picken’ souls, they just didn’t know any better!!!!
I used to be married to a native Floridian–and with salt and butter is how he ate grits. I tried it that way once. Just couldn’t take it. Butter, sugar and milk was the only way I could eat them. So, our compromise was when I learned to cook them was to cook them without the salt in the water, that way we could both eat them the way we liked. (Oh, by the way, that was the ONLY thing we were able to compromise on–HAPPILY DIVORCED SINCE 2007!!!)
Hey Christy, This recipe looks fantastic and SOOOO easy. My mouth is watering just looking at the pictures. I have been at my daughter’s for 3 months and she doesn’t have a slow cooker. I am going home soon–back to MY bed, MY special chair in the living room, and MY kitchen and SLOW COOKER!!!!!! (Not that I haven’t loved being with my daughter and grandson). This recipe will be one of the first things I make after going home.
Oh, and the sweet rice–I was in my 20′s before I ever had rice as a side dish and not a breakfast cereal. In fact, I may make some this evening as a treat for daughter and grandson!!!!
Hey Christy,
My best friend is from Hawaii and introduced me to Calrose (sticky) rice about 20 years ago. It is the best. She also shared her recipe for homemade teriyaki sauce, which we use to make teriyaki steaks and burgers. It is FABULOUS! Let me know if you’d like to try it. I can hardly wait to try this cashew chicken recipe! Yum!
Would love to know your homemade teriyaki sauce recipe. Sounds delicious! Thank you!
My husband is a Pipeliner and we travel with him alot and cooking in a 5th wheel travel trailer gets hot QUICK. I LOVE to use my slow cooker when we are out on the road with him. That lil gas stove heats up that 40 ft trailer way too fast for me and a slow cooker is a must have item.
How many servings does this make? It sounds delish!
Totally depends on how hungry you are
For us, it feeds four.
This is one dish I know my family will love, well I’ll have to switch the water chestnuts for the nuts, 2 in my family have this aversion to nuts oh well.. it sounds fantastic!! I also grew up eating rice for breakfast, I can’t have milk so would have it with salt and pepper and Nanny would always find some spice to put in to make it even better! My son’s grew up eating rice for all meals and in all types of dishes. I’ve got to find this brand I know they will love it!! Slow cookers are the best anytime of the year!!!!
I drove 6 hours to visit my mom. We had a fun day of shopping Saturday. Then we came back to her house & I mowed her lawn for her. Good times. Love my mom!
Christy, do you have a special way you go about fixing rice? Any helpful hints?
My husband sings in a Sacred Harp group locally and I took 6 women to listen to the group sing ancient hymns, modern religious music and folk music in the shape note manner. It is all done without music and is very powerful. Look it up online to get a description of what it actually is at “Fasola.org”. For any of you that saw “Cold Mountain”, you would have seen/heard this style of music being sung.
I went to hear a sacred harp singing last year at Burritt and blogged about it -beautiful!
Looks like a goody! Love you, Christy!
Going to try this. I will add some garlic, probably water chestnuts (i know Christy) LOL and we like ours a little spicy , so I will add some red pepper flakes & black pepper..The Calif. mix veggies would also be good in this.
this looks so delicious – will try with deboned legs and thighs, since that is what I have, and I agree with Evelyn about adding garlic (esp. if your teriyaki doesn’t have it in there). I will do this in the rice cooker (or as I like to call it the Fast cooker).
PS – love to know so many of us eat rice for breakfast (or easy dessert)
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This recipe looks so tastey! Must give it a try soon! Went to Sonics this weekend and mde a couple birds happy…shared a french fry with them! Made me just as happy as it made them! ~snickers~ ‘Course, they wanted more than I was willing to give them, but I don’t think f.f.’s are any better for them than they are for me! LOL
OOO I needed another crock pot recipe. I love my c.p. and if anything ever happens to it, we will just starve. My kitchen gets SOOOOO hot in the summer and I have four kids so my handy helper has saved me more than once.
I too love me some sweet rice. I am more of just a sugar and rice girl but I have had the butter, sugar, and rice. It makes a great lunch.
I’m going to make this next weekend. I like the ideas of adding garlic, mushrooms and green onions. I’m also going to throw in some pineapple right near the end and a bit of sriracha sauce (“rooster” label Asian pepper sauce). Just love all your recipes, Christy!
Let me know how it turns out Kay!
Ha, Katy Rose’s description of your weekend is so cute! I’m glad you had so much fun
Oh and the recipe looks good too, tomorrow I’m making buffalo chicken sandwich filling in the crock pot but will have to try your recipe soon. Our weekend wasn’t great. Saturday was nice- I got lots of stuff done around the house and in the garden (all my plants are in your wading pool gardens, which are now JUNGLES!) and lots of homework done. My husband and I stopped at a side of the road hot dog place that just opened recently. $5 hot dogs! Right across the street from Sam’s Club, too. The hot dogs were made here in town and the buns were freshly made, and they had this great barbecue-y sauce on them, but… Gotta admit, I like Sam’s $1 hot dogs more. Shame on me I guess. Our weekend went downhill from there because one of our bunnies got very sick in the middle of the night and we had to rush him to the emergency vet. We don’t know if he’ll pull through but he’s on medication and has another appointment Wednesday. I am a happy, optimistic person but it’s hard to be having a great week when one of your pets is suffering.
Oh Annarose, I hope your bunny gets well soon!!!
Spent the weekend up north at our cottage and enjoyed water sports and swimming in the lake. Even the hubby skied slalom ! This might not seem like a big deal but he is 59 and still got it! Our son and his girlfriend joined us and we got the dog to go for a swim… she loves to run at the shore and whines to join everyone. She almost fell in off the edge but we think the dock is too high for her. We carried her in and gently placed her in the water and she calmly swam back to shore. After we realized going back up the ladder was not an option… She tried but left a few scratches behind…
Spending family time together is a gift and its about making the most out of it.
Its taking a while and I am still learning to live in the moment and be present. That way you can actually live your life and enjoy it rather than have it be a memory before you know it! Your sweet rice sounds very much like something we call rice pudding. Boiled in milk and and sugar and then add Cinnamon to serve. Can be eaten cold or heated up. I like it both ways. If i heat it up then I add cream to it and its kinda like hot cereal. I can eat this anytime of day. It is usually eaten like a dessert in this neck of the woods. Not everyone is a fan which means more for me… LOL! ,,,,,looking forward to trying the recipe. Grateful for each moment…. hugs…
I am so glad to hear that you are living in the moment!! It makes such a big difference in our attitudes. ~HUGS~ Hope you have a great day!!
thank you for sharing this recipe, I just put on the chicken with sauce on. I cant wait till tonight
Yummy, I can’t wait to hear how you like it!!
alrighty, i just put the chicken in slow cooker and wanted to say thank you for the idea/recipe! your little Karo comes up with the sweetest things!! i want to play on a rainbow too so i am going to turn on the sprinkler in the back yard and watch all the “diamonds” sparkle while i stand there laughing getting soaking wet inside a round rainbow! (i hope the neighbors see me ) ha!
love your stories and snippets of your life…what was that big news about your career. i missed it! love from Granny M out in New Market
I want to come spend the day playing with you!! I haven’t announced it yet, but I should be able to tomorrow!! I am so excited to be able to share it with you.
well honey whatever it is i know God must have sent it your way, you are a little angel! i have had more smiles since i began reading your stories, you really are a ray of sunshine to so many of us out here during times in this world when there is far too many dark clouds. may God continue to bless you as you share His love and happiness with all of those who love to “visit” with you on these computers…i would bet that most of us here kinda feel like you are just like a close friend or neighbor we love to sit at the kitchen table with as we sip our coffee!!
We ate rice with whatever went on top depending on the meal. Homemade Chinese got plain rice but we always made enough rice so we could make rice pudding with the leftovers. Rice, sugar, raisins, cinnamon, egg yolks (for richness and thickening) and whipped egg whites all went into it and then cream poured over the finished product. Yum!! Funny story: we had a Japanese exchange student with us for a year–same age as my oldest son–and to make him feel more at home, I cooked rice for a few weeks after he arrived. I had long grain rice as that’s what I usually cooked. He tried to make rice balls with salt for a snack but long grain rice doesn’t work because it doesn’t stick together. He didn’t cook at home so he couldn’t explain that the rice balls were made from sticky rice and I didn’t know that either. So, the rice balls were sorta crumbly and never really balled up. He grew to love potatoes and all Texas food and grew a couple of inches and added 10 pounds before he went home.
You and me both grew up eating rice for dinner! LOL
I like eating jasmine rice.
I also plan to make this this weekend. I think I might add some bell pepper. I can hardly wait for the smell to start wafting throughout the house.
You know, your infinite wisdom has said the words out of my mouth again! I don’t use my oven in the summer, only the crockpot when I want something that requires that type of cooking. I rely on your site to give me innovative ideas because there’s only so much pot roast you can eat (the easiest thing to throw in a crockpot and forget about)! Oh, and shredded pork too! Thank you again!
HEY CHRISTY,
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Hey Janet! thank you so much for being so sweet to me! I went in and checked on your subscription and on July 27th an email was returned as undeliverable. This is most likely due to a glitch in your ISP but my email program (which is automated when it comes to this stuff) thought it meant your email address was no longer valid and stopped delivering messages. Good news is, I’ve resumed your subscription and you should be good to go from now on! Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any more problems. I want you in the family as much as possible!
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Christy