Slow-cooker kickin' rotisserie chicken

This is actually the first time that I have made chicken this way before. I generally stick to chicken breast and hardly ever use bone-in chicken and especially never a whole chicken but I think that is about to change. To say that this recipe/method of cooking a whole chicken exceeded my expectations is an understatement. The chicken was so juicy and extremely tender and definitely did not taste like it had been cooked in a slow cooker. Now lets get down to what has to be done achieve this phenomenal chicken. Now I used a small chicken for this so the measurements and cooking times are set for a small chicken, adjust accordingly.


Ingredients:

1 small whole chicken (cleaned out and rinsed out, I also trimmed some excess fat off)
Butter mixture:
2 tablespoons of butter
1 tablespoon Tony's seasoning (it ain't called kickin' for no reason)
1/2 tablespoon Nature's Seasons (salt, black pepper, sugar, onion, garlic, parsley, celery)

First thing you want to do is prepare your slow-cooker to become a rotisserie, this is super simple. All you need is four pieces of aluminum foil to achieve this feat.  Take the pieces of aluminum foil and crumple them up into the shape of a ball, I made sure to make mine a bit flat on the top so the chicken rested evenly on top.

After your chicken is prepared as listed above, cut under the skin on the breast to create a pocket between the breast meat and the breast skin. This is where the butter mixture will go, also if you can get any of this butter elsewhere under the skin go for it. Pull the skin back of the breast and make sure the butter under the skin is evenly disbursed. Place the chicken in your slow-cooker on top of the foil balls breast side up, halfway through cooking flip chicken over. I put more seasonings on the outside of the chicken. You can put whatever seasonings you want in your butter mixture and on the outside of your chicken of course. Below is a pic of the finished chicken in my slow-cooker, I accidentally ripped the skin over the breast but it still worked just fine, and next time I will actually put more seasoning on the outside just because I wanted more kick! 

I let my chicken cook for 4 hours on high and it was perfectly done! You may need to adjust the cooking time depending on the size of your chicken and your slow-cooker. Oh by the way, DO NOT OPEN WHILE COOKING!!! I know it's hard, it definitely was for me (haha), but it's well worth it. I will say that I was not sure how the skin of the chicken was actually going to turn out, crispy or soft, but I was delighted that some was kinda crispy. The next pic is the remnants of  what we did to our chicken, I accidentally deleted the cooked version of my chicken but you can kinda see how it turned out. Either way it was delicious!!!

I hoped you enjoyed reading because I most definitely enjoyed cooking and we enjoyed eating our slow-cooker kickin' rotisserie chicken!!