Slow Cooked Vietnamese Pulled Chicken

(from castro15’s recipe box)

Categories: Slow Cooker

Ingredients

  • 3 cups chicken broth
  • 3 shallots, very thinly sliced
  • 1/4 cup fish sauce
  • 2 tbsp. light brown sugar
  • 2-4 Thai chiles, very thinly sliced
  • 2 tsp. lime zest
  • 4-4 1/2 lbs. skin-on, bone-in chicken breasts
  • 2 cups julienned or grated carrots
  • 1/2 cup lime juice
  • 1/3 cup sliced fresh mint
  • 1/3 cup sliced fresh basil

Directions

  1. Combine broth, shallots, fish sauce, brown sugar, chiles, and lime zest in a slow cooker. Nestle chicken meat-side down in the broth. Cook on LOW for 6 hours.

  2. Remove the chicken to a clean cutting board. Discard the skin and shred the meat. Return the chicken to the slow cooker and stir in carrots, lime juice, mint and basil.

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