Name: Slow Cooker Coconut Chicken Drumsticks
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 360 min
Total time: 370 min
Ingredients: One 13.5-ounce can coconut milk, (stirred); 2 tablespoons Sriracha sauce; 1 tablespoon Thai chili garlic paste; 1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce; 1 teaspoon dried basil; 3 to 4 pounds chicken drumsticks; steamed rice, (for serving (optional)); chopped fresh cilantro, (for garnish)

This recipe for Coconut Chicken Drumsticks is super easy to make in the slow cooker with just 5 main ingredients and one spice.

Coconut Chicken Drumsticks

There are some nights that you just need a super easy dinner. You need a dinner that will do all of the work for you- one that will be ready when you come home from a busy day! This is one of those recipes. Everything is dumped into the slow cooker, and it will fill your kitchen with amazing scents as it cooks!

🛒 Ingredients Needed:

coconut milk
Sriracha sauce
Thai chili garlic paste
low sodium soy sauce
dried basil
chicken drumsticks
fresh cilantro (optional)
steamed rice, for serving (optional)

four photos showing how to make slow cooker coconut chicken drumsticks

✏️ How to make Coconut Chicken Drumsticks:

The full, printable recipe is in the recipe card at the end of this post.

In a slow cooker insert, combine the coconut milk, Sriracha sauce, Thai chili garlic paste and soy sauce. Stir to combine.
Using a double layer of paper towels, pull the skin off the chicken drumsticks. Add the skinless drumsticks to the slow cooker, nestling them into the sauce.
Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.

spooning sauce onto coconut chicken drumsticks on plate

Serve the chicken and sauce over rice. Garnish with cilantro, if desired.

close up coconut chicken drumsticks on plate

Recipe Tips

To make this an easy freezer meal, add all of the ingredients to a plastic freezer zip bag, seal and freeze. When ready to cook, drop everything from the bag into the slow cooker and cook on low for 8 hours if still frozen or for 6 hours if thawed.
Look for the most of the ingredients to this recipe in your market’s Asian aisle.

coconut chicken drumsticks serving on plate

❤️ What I Love About This Recipe:

You can use bone-in chicken thighs too!
It’s so easy.
I get to make my coconut rice recipe to go with it, which is perfect!

fork tearing open chicken drumstick on plate

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Slow Cooker Coconut Chicken Drumsticks

By RecipeGirl.com (shared from The Easy 5-Ingredient Slow Cooker Cookbook)

Love this kid-friendly chicken drumstick recipe!

Prep: 10

Cook: 6

Total: 6 10

Servings: 5 servings

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Ingredients

▢ One 13.5-ounce can coconut milk, stirred
▢ 2 tablespoons Sriracha sauce
▢ 1 tablespoon Thai chili garlic paste
▢ 1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
▢ 1 teaspoon dried basil
▢ 3 to 4 pounds chicken drumsticks
▢ steamed rice, for serving (optional)
▢ chopped fresh cilantro, for garnish

Instructions

In a slow cooker insert, combine the coconut milk, Sriracha sauce, Thai chili garlic paste and soy sauce. Stir to combine.
Using a double layer of paper towels, pull the skin off the chicken drumsticks. Add the skinless drumsticks to the slow cooker, nestling them into the sauce.
Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.
Serve the chicken and sauce over rice. Garnish with cilantro.

Notes

Bone-in thighs may be substituted for drumsticks. Remove skin in the same way.
To make this an easy freezer meal, add all of the ingredients to a plastic freezer zip bag, seal and freeze. When ready to cook, drop everything from the bag into the slow cooker and cook on low for 8 hours if still frozen or for 6 hours if thawed.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving, Calories: 339kcal, Carbohydrates: 3g, Protein: 32g, Fat: 22g, Saturated Fat: 16g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g, Monounsaturated Fat: 3g, Trans Fat: 0.03g, Cholesterol: 142mg, Sodium: 607mg, Potassium: 571mg, Fiber: 0.3g, Sugar: 1g, Vitamin A: 45IU, Vitamin C: 5mg, Calcium: 35mg, Iron: 4mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.