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It’s funny how the seasons can inspire the cooking equipment I use. While summertime is inspired by my grill and ice cream maker, winter has me all about my Crock Pot (aka slow cooker). We’re just entering back to school after the holidays — busy days running around with the kids, getting back in the rhythm and most likely less time to prepare dinner than you enjoy when there’s more light outside.
Some days at 2pm right before I go to pick up the kids at school, I just toss all of the ingredients into my treasured crock pot and by 5:45pm the lid is off and the heavenly aroma of tender chicken in a mild chile verde sauce is in the air, a hearty and delicious fall dish bound for hungry tummies! You can even refrigerate any leftovers that taste as good on day two or three as it does on day one.
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Crock Pot Chicken Chili Verde
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large onion diced
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 pounds chicken thighs or breasts bone-in and skinless
- 2 cups frozen corn kernels
- 1 1/2 cups salsa verde
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in a sauté pan and sauté onions for 3 minutes. Add the garlic, cumin and salt, sauté for an additional 1 minute and place in the crock pot.
- Place the chicken thighs, corn and salsa verde in the crock pot.
- Cook on low for 4 hours.
- Discard the bones, shred the chicken and stir back into the sauce.
- Serve over rice.
Notes
- If you prefer using skinless, bone-in chicken breast, cook on low for 2 ½ hours.
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This was wonderful. Even my husband loved it, and he is VERY picky !!!!!
this looks so good! would it be too overcooked if i put this together in the morning and ate it after 5:00?
Hello!
What size crock pot do you use for most of these recipes? I have a HUGE one given to us as a present and am thinking it’d be overkill for your delicious recipes!
Best, Sue 🙂
I made this yesterday with a slight modification and it was delicious! I didn’t have time to make my own salsa and the local grocery only had spicy salsa verde. I mixed 1/3 jar of the salsa verde with a full jar of mango lime salsa and poured over one whole cut chicken. My 11mo and 3yo couldn’t shovel it in fast enough and husband agreed it was a hit. I used it in quesadilla this morning for daughter’s lunchbox. This is going into our regular rotation! THANKS!!
Super delicious!! I made this for dinner last night but just did it on the stove top (not organized enough to do the crock pot thing yesterday morning at 6 am before work). My girls, 12 and 10, loved it. I added a can of black beans (rinsed) with the corn…and a dollop of guacamole at the table. My youngest requested I send this recipe to Grammie in CO so she can make it for them when they visit her in the summer!!! That’s saying something!!!
How long did you cook the bonelesss thighs?
I just did this with boneless, skinless thighs and it came out delicious! I also added bell red bell peppers 🙂
Do you have to use bone-in thighs? could you use skinless, boneless thighs? thanks : ) Looks yummy!
Breasts cook faster than legs/thighs do. The same applies to all cooking with chicken. Breasts will require less cooking time than thighs and legs.
I’m a bit confused, it says if you use bone in skinless breasts it’s only 2 1/2 hours?
Why less time if it’s chicken breasts instead of thighs?
Would there be a cooking time difference if I used boneless (and skinless) chicken? This looks delicious!!
I think it is listed on page 6 as roasted tomatillo salsa.
Here it is!
http://b12.ba4.myftpupload.com/2011/07/20/roast-tomatillo-salsa/
It’s called Roasted Tomatillo Salsa
http://b12.ba4.myftpupload.com/2011/07/20/roast-tomatillo-salsa/
Where is the weelicious salsa verde recipe? I did a search and couldn’t find it.