Contributed By: adriablack
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Crockpot Chicken: Three Nights of Meals
From one day in the crockpot to three nights of meals:
1. Cream of Chicken Soup (with green peppers, served with bread or garlic bread).
2. Chicken Pot Pie (served with rice)
3. Cheesy Chicken Casserole (with cream cheese and red peppers served over egg noodles).
The first day you cook chicken and vegetables in the crockpot. That evening you take out two thirds of the chicken/vegetable mix and with what's remaining you add a couple of ingredients to the crockpot to make cream of chicken soup. Another night that week you can take another third of the crockpot chicken/vegetable mix and make chicken pot pie. The third night you can add a couple ingredients to what's left make a cheesy chicken casserole.
Once cooked, use it all within the five days -- you can freeze some, if you know you won't get to using it all that week.
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Total Preparation Time: 15 to 30 minutes
Ingredients: Chicken & Turkey
Vegetables
Actual Cooking Time: More than 2 hours
Number of Servings: 6
Origin: American
Special Features: Quick to Prepare (under 30 minutes)
Make Ahead
Crock Pot
Meal Type: Lunch
Soups & Stews
Ingredients
6 Onions
6 Celery stalks
2 cups Carrots chopped
2 cups Frozen peas
3 cups Frozen beans
Chicken bouillon cube
2 cups Water
2 tablespoons Oil
1 Tablesppon butter
6 Chicken breasts
9 Chicken thighs
Salt, pepper
Extra spices (celery leaves, thyme, parsley) or a vegetable bouillon cube, if to your family's taste.
Cream
Green pepper
Cream cheese
Bottled red pepper
Preparation
Slow Cooker Preparation:
heat onions and celery in butter until clear.
add carrots, peas, beans.
add boiling water and bouillon cube
simmer 5 min
lightly brown chicken pieces (optional step)
(can do those steps night before and store ingredients in fridge until morning -- don't put crockpot ceramic in fridge though,).
in the morning:
put chicken in bottom of slow cooker
put vegetable mixture on top
let cook 6-8 hours on low or 3-4 hours on high.
1st night:
Ladle out two thirds of vegetable/chicken and set aside for next two nights. Store in fridge in plastic storage containers or directly into casseroles you will be using for other two nights.
(Note: Chicken pieces should just fall apart. If need be, can take out big pieces of chicken with a fork and cut into smaller pieces with scissors directly over crockpot.)
1st night: Chicken Cream of Chicken Soup.
To remaining third of vegetable/chicken mix in crockpot,
add 1 cup cream and 1 green pepper.
Heat on high for 20 min. (doesn't work on low - cream might curdle.)
Serve with bread, toasted baguette, or garlic bread
2nd night: Chicken Pot Pie
that morning: take out puff pastry to thaw.
that night: put vegetable mixture / chicken into casserole dish.
add a bit of milk or cream, if you prefer it creamy
cover with puff pastry.
cook 20-30 minutes at 350 until heated through and pastry browned.
serve with rice.
3rd night: Cheesy Chicken Casserole
With remaining 1/3 of vegetable/chicken mixture
add 1 pkg cream cheese, cubed
add roasted red pepper, diced (a couple peppers, about 1/2 the peppers in the bottle)
cook in oven at 350 for 20-30 min in casserole dish. OR put in saucepan and heat on stove top until cooked through
serve with egg noodles or rice
Cook's Notes
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