You guys!
I did it. I cooked a meal and I didn’t burn anything and the smoke alarm didn’t go off (I didn’t even have to disconnect it!) and the house smelled good and it turned out REALLY, REALLY WELL. I can’t tell you how shocked my entire family was. Mister Jess had even brought home an emergency back-up meal, even though he said it wasn’t. “Oh, mashed potatoes totally go with salsa chicken! And since I was there, I picked up an entree and a baguette and some veggies, too.”
Right. Well, we all ate and enjoyed this delicious crock pot meal, so now I offer it up to you, dear Scoot a Doot readers. It’s so, so easy and really versatile and requires about two seconds-worth of effort.
Let me know what you think!
Prep time – like, 2 minutes
Cook time – 6-8 hours on low setting
Serves – 4 good eaters with leftovers
Ingredients
- 4 skinless chicken breasts, frozen
- 1 or 2 jars of salsa (I used 2)
- 1 bag of frozen corn (canned corn is fine too)
- 1 can black beans
- 1 packet of taco seasoning
- 1 block of cream cheese
- Optional: 1/2 cup of cilantro, chopped
Pour salsa into the crock pot, followed by the taco seasoning. Once that is in, stick your chicken breasts in. I immersed the chicken into the salsa and covered the top of the chicken with it so the flavor would really soak up.
Cover your breasts!
Set your crock pot to low heat and then fuggedaboutit. Your house will soon fill with spicy deliciousness, though, so you may end up checking the crock pot every hour and wishing you could eat it right then. That was my process.
Are you ready yet? Now are you ready? How about now?
About 30 minutes before your time is up, add in the black beans, corn and cream cheese. I found that I needed to break up the cream cheese a little bit a few minutes after I put it in, and then about 15 minutes later. It didn’t want to melt on its own.
Almost there…
Serve over tortilla chips for nachos (what we did), or use as the filling for tacos, enchiladas or burritos. Easy peasy! Yum yum!
The final product!
FYI, I did not add cilantro because I think it’s the devil’s spice, but some people like it so you may find that it adds a little something to your version.
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I am SO proud of you, Jess. This is just the start of great things. And I love how Dude got a backup meal. 😉
He’s very special. I wish you could have witnessed how shocked he was when it came out so yummy.
You don’t like cilantro? GASP. I love it so much, I even throw it in my smoothies.
Yay for you! I’m going to make this next week.
Yeah, my mouth hates cilantro. But since you love it so much, you’ll probably like it in this! Let me know how it turns out!
I love crock pot chicken. I did one with basically salsa, a little seasoning, and tomato paste to thicken it up. Delicious. Last weekend I made coconut orange version using coconut oil, and orange ginger seasoning. Yum!
Whoa, that sounds amazing! Is it as easy as the salsa chicken?
Yes! I posted the recipe on my blog last week 🙂