Topic: Slow-Cooker Salsa Chicken

sabbles

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made it tonight with fat free salsa cream, over brown rice, topped with pico de gallo. so yummy!!!


   

laurajoyw

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This is one of my favorite recipes now. I've made it a bunch of ways and its so good. Everyone has to try it.

   

hasiangirl

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i've been wanting to make this ever since i saw tam post it, but i cant seem to find the post lol......well now its back so imma make it tonight dagnabit!
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denae

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This lookes easy and great! Thanks for the post!!!
   

hasiangirl

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ps i've yet to dig in because its not done cooking.....but it smells sooo (insert bad word) good!!!!
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hasiangirl

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p.s. yummy
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I forgot to put the taco seasoning in, but it was still really good!!!!!

*note- let it sit for about 5 minutes or more to allow sauce to thicken, its much better with thicker sauce!
Edited by bates on Tue 09/08/09 07:36 PM

   

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this is fantastic - I put it in the crock pot last night before bed, so it was ready to dish up this morning to bring to work for lunch - YUM!!!! Great recipe (even though I forgot to add the sour cream this morning, that would add to the goodness)
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Bump for the recipe! Thanks flowerforyou

   

stacesand

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Ssssooo good! And the chicken falls apart it's so tender!
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Bumping to add to my recipes!!! Sounds great I'm ready to try it.
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I made this for dinner tonight -- minus the slow-cooker. I used regular brown rice which must cook for 40 minutes or so, so I boiled the water while the boneless, skinless chicken breasts defrosted. When the water started boiling, I put the rice on to simmer & set my timer for 45 minutes. I chopped up the chicken into small bite-sized pieces, poured on the taco seasoning & rubbed it in then pan fried it (with just a spritz of nonstick canola cooking spray) over a medium flame. I added a clove of minced garlic to the chicken. After about 15 minutes I added the salsa (Premium Selection black bean & corn) & condensed soup & just let that cook & simmer for the remaining 20 minutes or so making sure to stir every few minutes. Then I spooned 1 cup of rice onto a plate, added 1/6 of the chicken salsa on top of that, 1 tbs full-fat sour cream, and a sprinkle of mozzarella cheese (I would've used Monterrey Jack had I had any). It was a huge amount of food, and I actually think this recipe could easily serve 8.
I used 24 ounces of chicken (4oz per serving).

It was SO GOOD I couldn't believe my mouth. I LOVE to cook, but when I cooked before, I didn't hold back on the fat and calories because I never wanted to sacrifice taste. This dish did not disappoint me. I paired this with steamed green beans. I couldn't believe my entire plate had under 500 calories. I couldn't even come close to finishing (so I got dinner & lunch tomorrow out of 1/6th of the recipe).

It tasted so good my boyfriend didn't believe how few calories it had until I added all the ingredients & divided by # of servings in front of him to prove it.

Now I'm going to have a really hard time getting the rest of my calories (300!) in for today because I'm so full.
Thank you for this recipe!

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i'm not OP but i know the calorie does not count the rice yet.

I made it today. It was so good. Thank you for posting

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oregonlady

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flowerforyou getting the idea off this thread,
i just put some frozen chicken breasts, green peppers & about 1 c salsa in my crockpot.
i'll cook some rice later and i hope 2 have a yummy, healthy dinner.

i can report how it turned out tomorrow!happy

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I will have this for dinner tonight. I put everything in the crock pot this morning
before leaving for work. How will i calculate the calories? I also added 2 cups
of black beans and 1 cup of corn to it?

   

oregonlady

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here is a a great web site for calculating calories in recipes!

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp

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