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Enjoy this healthy Slow Cooker Southwest Chicken Recipe with your family. This easy dinner idea can be prepped ahead of time and made into a Freezer to Crockpot meal.
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by the fabulous folks at Flipp, all opinions and the recipe are my own!
Slow Cooker Southwest Chicken
I love an easy dinner. A dinner that is light, delicious, and one that I can just toss in the crockpot. This Southwest Chicken Recipe is just that. You can easily toss it in the slow cooker before you head out the door in the morning, or make it a freezer to crockpot meal. Freezer to crockpot meals are nice because they allow you to plan ahead and make for a really easy morning 🙂
When chicken is on sale, it’s the perfect time to stock up and make a few freezer to crockpot meals, I checked out my Flipp app and noticed that Chicken Breasts were on sale for just $3 a pound at Winn Dixie, so that’s exactly what I did!
I grabbed extra chicken, grabbed my neighbor, and we worked together to prep a couple of these Southwest Chicken Freezer to Crockpot meals so we both had a few dinners ready to go for our families when we needed them 🙂
Here is my Slow Cooker Southwest Chicken Recipe. Be sure to Print It and Pin It so that you can make it again and again.
Slow Cooker Southwest Chicken
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1½-2 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 can southwest or fiesta corn, drained
- 1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
- 16 oz your favorite salsa I recommend medium to hot heat to added flavor
- 8 oz reduced fat cream cheese
Instructions
- Write name of recipe and cooking time on a freezer bag
- Cut the cream cheese into cubes
- Add all the ingredients into a large freezer bag
- Place in freezer until ready for use
- When ready for use thaw the night before and place in slow cooker for 6-8 hours on low
- About 30 minutes before the meal is going to be served remove and shred the chicken and place back in the slow cooker so that the chicken is nice and juicy
- Serve over rice or in tortillas or taco shells
- Enjoy!
Notes
I hope you and your family enjoy this Southwest Chicken Crockpot Recipe as much as we do!
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I love my crock pot! I make spaghetti sauce, and keep it in there on low. It also doesn’t heat up the kitchen. I’m going to steal your recipe. Thanks.
That looks delicious.
We love mexican food and we love easy meals. This looks and sounds delicious and I love that you can throw it in the crock pot and let it cook. Pinning for my recipes.
I love anything I can cook in my crock pot that saves time
that looks so good and easy to make thanks
I love recipes for the crock pot. This one sounds super good! Thank you!
My husband would love this. I’m not a bean lover (one of my faults, my husband will say!) but I can eat black beans if they are mixed with corn and salsa – so that means this would be a meal that would work for both of us!
This recipe looks amazing ! My crockpot is like my best friend so I’ll be trying this one soon !