Southwestern Chicken in the Crock-Pot
By Judy Lynam from Crock-Pot Cooking
Ever found times that you pull out the cookbooks on your shelf and find a treasure? Well, we just found a NEW favorite that was right there all along! 🙂 A while back we compiled a cookbook with our Talk-a-Latte mommy pals. I bought a bigger crock-pot to help me give some of the bigger recipes a try. Somehow I missed this one. UGH! BUT! No fear! It will be regular with my family now. Give it a try today. Easy. Fast. Inexpensive. And…TOTALLY YUMMY! Bon Appetit!
What You Need:
2 cups (or one 15 oz. can) of black beans, drained
2 cups (or one 15 oz. can) of corn, drained
2 cups (16 oz) salsa
6 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese, optional
How You Make It:
Mix black beans, corn, and ½ cup of salsa in the crock-pot. Put in the chicken breasts and pour the remaining salsa over top.
Cover and cook on high for 3-4 hours, or on low for 7-8 hours, until chicken is done. Sprinkle cheese on top.
This is great served over rice!!
*Another option that makes it easier to serve smaller children is to cut up the chicken before it’s put in and then just stir all the ingredients together – makes everything bite-sized and easy to serve at the table without your food getting cold while you cut up your kids’ food!
*Leftovers are good over chips and topped with cheese for great nachos!
This is a great recipe!
Here is another one for you to try in your crock pot. It is a recipe for “Tennessee Pulled-Pork Barbecue” that is tooooo easy, but tastes like you are at an authentic Tennessee Barbecue joint!
Purchase a boneless pork loin or pork roast (bone is is o.k. if you can’t find a boneless)
Place meat in crock pot. Dump 2 jars of banana pepper rings over the meat (mild or hot – up to you – we use hot in our family!)
Crank the crock pot to high and cook for 6-8 hours or until meat is fall apart tender. Remove meat from crock pot and shred with a fork. Serve on buns with some of the cooking liquid and/or bottled barbecue sauce. Pass some potatoe salad and some baked beans and you’ve got a great meal! This is a great dish to put on to cook on low on a Saturday night and let it cook until you get home from church (a total of 12-14 hours). It makes it even more tender if you do it that way.