sherifffruitfly
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I've done pot roast and ribs so far. Looking for suggestions for my 3rd slowcooker experience!
Chicken? I do a lot of chicken in the crock pot.
I have over a dozen recipes, which one would you like? They are all easy.
Crock Pot Chicken Parm
Italian Chicken
Cream of Mushroom Chicken
White Cheese Sauce Chicken
Those are what I have at the top of my head.
4 Frozen Chicken Breasts
1 Jar of your preferred Spaghetti Sauce (used as a base unless you have some of your own spaghetti sauce already available)
I can tomato paste
1 palmful oregano approx 1 tablespoon
1 palmful dried basil (use dried because you are slow cooking)
1 onion finely diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup grated Parmesan
Mix together. Cook on low for 8 hours or high about 5. When chicken becomes fork tender, pour another good helping of Parm on top and let it melt. Serve on top of angel hair pasta.
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I do a lot of it by taste. I would suggest your first time you mix the sauce before pouring over frozen chicken (you can do defrosted for less time, I usually start this before work) and make it to your taste.
If you have some homemade spaghetti sauce already made up, use that instead of the jar and don't worry about the spices. I always have some frozen now a days so I use it but I started using Prego or even Ragu because I always dressed it up.
I can adapt what you have to make it work. I've done this dish for over 12 years and it was my first chicken crock pot meal ever.
Posole is on the menu for us--great slow cooker food and sooooo good with all of those crispy, crunchy, yummy fresh toppings.
If you are going to buy the spaghetti sauce, I recommend just a "plain" sauce unless you like mushrooms, that's what I always use. Don't use the "X cheese" type, or the green pepper and onion one. The less added flavors in the sauce the better. If you've ever bought jarred sauce, you'll know what I mean. I just love mushrooms so I always buy the one with mushrooms.I'm headin to the market tomorrow - so I'll pick up all I need there.
Thanks!
Boneless, skinless breasts. You can mix boneless, skinless thighs in too but it gets a little fatty if you use only thighs. I just really prefer the boneless skinless breasts.Callisto, do you use bone-in or boneless chicken in this dish?
It is easy. Like I said, it was the first thing I "created" in the Crock Pot. And I do mean created because I was just throwing stuff at the crock the first time I did it.Sounds great, and *easy* I'm going to have to try this.
That's funny. Earlier today I thought "tomorrow will be a crock pot day". Haven't had one in a few weeks or at least a good week and a half and figured it was time.
I picked a recipe on a blog I have saved called:
crock pot mole (molay pronounced) recipe.
It calls for 2lbs of meat, but says you can use beef, chicken or pork.