Secret Ingredient Crock Pot Chicken

Total Time: 10 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 -3 lbs whole chickens (cut into pieces or left whole)
• 1 garlic clove (small)
• 8 sprigs fresh tarragon (or less) or 1 tablespoon dried tarragon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
• 1/4 cup chicken broth
• 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract or 1 vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped from

Recipe

• 1 wad up three pieces of aluminum foil into fist-sized pieces and place them in the bottom of the crock pot.
• 2 rinse the chicken and pat dry with paper towels.
• 3 rub inner cavity with garlic clove.
• 4 with your fingers, gently loosen breast skin and insert a tarragon sprig under the skin of each breast.
• 5 stuff remaining sprigs in inner cavity and truss with kitchen twine.
• 6 rub the chicken all over with salt and pepper.
• 7 place the chicken on top of the foil.
• 8 in a small bowl or cup measure, combine the broth and the vanilla.
• 9 pour over the chicken, into crock pot.
• 10 set crock pot to high for 1 hour then turn down to low for 8-10 hours.
• 11 this turns out just like roasted chicken.
• 12 the foil keeps it from cooking in its own juices, and the chicken browns just like you roasted it in the oven.