I’ve been noticing lately that in the past few weeks I’ve gotten lazier and lazier with actually cooking for dinner. After working all day then going to the gym, I just don’t want to cook.
So I took to Pinterest and saved myself a bunch of crockpot meals, starting with this one “creamy tomato chicken.”
This is a super simple recipe that I was able to put in a bag the night before then dump in the crockpot the next morning, add some milk then when I got home all I had to do was shred the chicken and cook the pasta. Plus I was able to have it for dinner for pretty much the rest of the week and all it needed was to be heated up.
I got the idea for this one from a “freezer dump meal” list, which is something I think I’m going to start doing so I have plenty of options in the fridge for both lunches and dinners throughout the various weeks. I just did a bit of changing to the recipe, shocker, and I got to use some of my fresh basil at the end as well which I was very happy about.
All in all, I really liked this meal and I enjoyed it for several days in a row and I got about five meals out of it. Though I did split it up and eat something else halfway through the week, but that’s just an “I get sick of things so I needed a switch” thing.
When I put all my ingredients in the bag the night before, the only thing I didn’t add was the evaporated milk because I wasn’t sure how it would do just sitting there so I added that in the next day.
I also recommend adding some pasta sauce to the noodles before adding the mixture on top so it coats the noodles a bit better.
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Ingredients …
1-2 lbs of chicken
14 oz can of tomatoes with herbs
3/4 cup of regular pasta sauce
12 oz of evaporated milk
1 tablespoon of garlic
1 tablespoon of dried basil
1 tablespoon of oregno
A few tablespoons of fresh basil
Salt and pepper to taste
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Directions …
Add chicken to slow cooker and then slowly add all ingredients on to the crockpot, minus the fresh basil. Make sure chicken is covered and cook on low for 4 to 6 hours.
Once cooked shred chicken with a fork and stir in half the fresh basil.
Serve over pasta or any other item of your choice and top with fresh basil and cheese if you’d like.
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