So many times people make chicken for dinner and then end up feeling totally ambivalent towards their meal – that’s not ideal. When you put effort into making a dish at the end of a long day, you want to feel good, if not great about it, right? There’s nothing we like more than digging into something we cooked and realizing that it’s absolutely delicious, so let’s banish bland chicken dinners from the repertoire and stick with hearty, flavorful ones instead, that make us want to make them over and over again.

Here, we’ve got a tasty slow cooker “golden” chicken. Naturally, it gets its name from the golden color of the sauce, but the color isn’t what makes this dish special; it’s the flavor. We used a combination of chicken breasts and thighs (whose dark meat we can’t get enough of) and then it was just a matter of throwing together an assortment of spices to bring out the wonderful rich flavor of the dish. Trust us, this is a breeze to make – in large part thanks to our slow cooker – and it makes a filling, feel-good dish that you won’t be able to get enough of!