Slow Cooker Chipotle Chicken
Last Thursday I was walking home from work and took a terrible typical Tina tumble on the street. My bod is beat, which makes it kinda hard to do like life stuff. No one to grocery shop or do my laundry. I was tired and grandmaster cranks - but I knew the most helpful and healing thing I could do was take care of myself.
I got booted up (it was a 1.5 mile walk each way) and I hauled ass to Stop & Shop, in the rain, grabbing the makings for a warming pot of chipotle chicken. I couldn’t stand and chop so I went for all frozen ingredients - from the bell peppers to, yes, even the onions. Canned La Morena chipotle peppers in adobo sauce and Hunts no salt added diced tomatoes made for the masterful seasoning and special sauce this chicken was rubbed up in. All of the ingredients were thrown in the slow cooker and plated over frozen steam in a bag cauliflower rice. This one pot no prep meal will get me through the coming days along with some salad trimmings and freezer soups.
Jazzed up with a cilantro yogurt sauce, this creamed up the chipotle chicken quite nicely and gave the smokey heat a little hit of coolness.
On this Mother's Day, as I lay alone, missing my mom and family - bag of frozen edamame on my knee - I'm plating pretty and sitting down to a most beautiful meal.
And that, friends, is how we can take time to treat ourselves well. Cooking for one, even when feeling shitty, can come with the greatest rewards and benefits. You're worth it.
XO
Slow Cooker Chipotle Chicken
2.5 lbs of chicken thighs and drumsticks, skinless or remove skin and bone in *as this chicken will slow cook off the bone resulting in a luscious bounty of pulled chicken without any work at all
1 large can La Morena Chipotle Peppers in Adobo Sauce
1 15 oz can no salt added diced tomatoes
1/2 bag of frozen bell peppers
1/2 bag of frozen diced onions
Place all ingredients in the slow cooker, setting to high and cooking for 4.5 hours
Serve over rice, quinoa, grain of choice
Get in your veggie bonus and serve over spaghetti squash or cauliflower rice *I plated mine over microwavable steam in the bag cauliflower rice
Add corn and or black beans as your weekly stock gets smaller so you can get more mileage from this meal
Top with Greek yogurt, guacamole, avocado creme or cotija cheese
Stuff this in a quesadilla, serve over salad or top your nachos right
Have a blast creating and plating pretty