Saturday, January 27, 2007

Crock Pot Chicken Cacciatore

Ingredients
1 jar spaghetti sauce
2 cans petite diced tomatoes (do not drain)
4 cloves garlic (minced or pushed through garlic press)
6 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
1 diced green pepper (optional)
10 diced mushrooms (optional)

Directions
- Arrange chicken breasts in bottom of crock pot
- Combine spaghetti sauce, diced tomatoes, garlic, green peppers and mushrooms and pour over chicken
- Cook on low heat for approximately 8 hours
- Use knife and fork to break up chicken and stir into sauce

Hints:
- Cooking this too long in the crock pot will dry out the chicken.
- You can use a large metal spoon to 'cut' chicken and stir into sauce. Chicken will appear shredded.
- The green pepper and mushrooms are truly optional. They add some nice flavor for those who like a chunky sauce but are not necessary for this dish to be flavorful.
- Serve with pasta

3 comments:

  1. I add extra garlic to this all the time. The slow cooking really breaks down the meat. It's amazing.

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  2. I made this the other night and my husband LOVED it. We had leftovers and used rice instead of pasta to change things up. It was good with the rice too.

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  3. This was GREAT! Really good flavor. Next time I'll try draining one of the cans of diced tomatoes because it was a tad watery (I think Alec and I have a weird phobia of watery food or something ...). Lots of leftovers.

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