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Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken – Only 4 Ingredients!
This slow cooker salsa chicken is simple to make AND you can make a ton at a time. Use some for dinner tonight (finish it off in the oven) and use the rest to shred up for nachos, tacos, or to top off a salad. SO many ways to use this one!
Let’s get started.
Dump your chicken in Mrs. Potts.
Pour on some taco seasoning or make your own homemade taco seasoning to use with this one.
Pour on a jar of salsa.
Then, let Mrs. Potts do the cooking for about 2 hours on high. (Don’t let her cook longer than that or the meat will shred up and you won’t be able to bake it.)
Once meat has cooked, transfer to baking dish.
Top with some shredded cheese.
Bake for 15 more minutes . . .
And top with a little extra salsa.
Perfection!
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Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken
Ingredients
- 6 chicken breasts boneless, skinless
- 1 jar mild salsa about 2 cups
- 1 packet of taco seasoning
- 1 cup shredded cheese Mexican blend
Instructions
- Place chicken breasts in slow cooker and pour the salsa to cover them. Cook between 1½ to 2 hours on high, don't cook longer because it will start to fall apart.
- Preheat oven to 425 F degrees.
- Spray a baking dish with cooking spray or grease and carefully place the chicken in the dish. Spoon the leftover salsa/sauce (from the slow cooker) over the chicken and sprinkle with the cheese.
- Bake for 15 minutes or until it's nice and golden brown, and you see the sauce and cheese bubbling.
Note: I baked all 10 chicken breasts that I had, but only pulled out 4 to bake for dinner. I left the rest in Mrs. Potts to cook for another hour, then shredded it to use for tacos, nachos, and taco salads (I even froze some for a quick dinner in a pinch.) Love that!
How to cook them from frozen?
To cook from frozen, just increase the cook time. Maybe on low for 5-8 hours or high for 3-4 hours. Hope that helps! 🙂
Thanks! Cooking tonight!
Have you ever done this with thighs? Would the cooking time be be same?
I would think it would work fine Hiam – and honestly maybe add an hour but not much (chicken cooks quickly!)
How long would you cook it on low in your slow cooker? I work all day and this would be a great meal if I could let it cook on low all day at work then put in oven for 15 minutes and serve for dinner.
Hi Paulette! If you cook them in the slow cooker all day the chicken will shred – which would be great for chicken tacos but it really won’t stay firm enough to bake if that makes sense? Hope that helps (it’s hard to find recipes like this that work when you want it to cook all day long!) 🙁
another money saving idea: I use cumin,dried, minced onion and chili powder instead of buying taco seasoning. there’s no salt in it, and I use it for chili or tacos.
What do you do with the taco seasoning?
Sorry Sue – just sprinkle it on top of the chicken before cooking it! 🙂