Slow Cooker Chicken Breast Recipes
Chicken breasts that cook while you're busy — chicken and gravy, tortilla soup, crockpot tacos, chicken and dumplings — for nights you're out the door by 7.
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Your crock pot is not just for the cold months! This Tortilla Soup is light (but still filling), SO flavorful, and it takes less than 5 minutes to set it and forget it until dinner time!
Katy TrncakIngredients
- about 1.25 lbs - 1.5 lbs Chicken Breast (Boneless/Skinless)
- 1 medium, diced (about 1½ cups when chopped) Yellow Onion
- 3-4 cloves, minced (about 2 TBSP when chopped) Garlic
- 3 cups (24 oz) Chicken Broth
- 1 (15oz can), not drained Corn
- 1 (15oz) can, drained and rinsed Black Beans
- 1 can (10 oz), not drained Rotel (Diced Tomatoes and Green Chilies)
- 1 (11oz) can Enchilada Sauce
- 1 packet (about 1 oz) Taco Seasoning
- 1/2 tsp Chili Powder
- Shredded Mexican Blend Cheese
- Tortilla Strips
- Cilantro
Instructions
- 1Place the uncooked chicken breast(s) in the bottom of a crock pot
- 2Add the diced onion and the garlic to the crock pot
- 3Add all the remaining ingredients to the crock pot and give it a good stir
- 4Cover with lid and cook on low for 8-10 hours
- 5About 15 mins before serving, shred the chicken in the crock pot with 2 forks.
- 6Cook for an additional 15 mins. Serve with any toppings you like.
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Open in Pepper →Chicken Breasts That Cook While You Work
A pack of boneless skinless chicken breasts is the thing most of us have in the fridge, and the slow cooker is the only way it turns tender without anybody standing over it. Morning you does five minutes of work, and evening you walks into a house that already smells like supper.
Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection on the long days — practice, late shifts, homework at the table — when dinner has to be done the second everybody's home and hungry.
Every recipe here starts with chicken breast and ends with a full plate: Crock Pot Chicken and Gravy over mashed potatoes, Crock Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup, Crockpot Chicken Tacos, Crock Pot Chicken and Dumplings, Crockpot Chicken & Taters, and Crockpot Chicken Corn Chowder.
Quick Tips
- 1
Cook on low
Chicken breast dries out fast on high — 4 to 5 hours on low keeps it juicy enough to shred with two forks.
- 2
Shred right in the pot
Pull the breasts out at the end, shred them, and stir them back into the liquid for 10 minutes so they soak the sauce back up.
- 3
Add dairy at the end
Stir in cream cheese, milk, or gnocchi during the last 20 to 30 minutes so nothing curdles or turns to mush.
- 4
Skip the extra liquid
Chicken releases a lot of its own juice, so 1 cup of broth is plenty unless you're making soup.
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