4-Ingredient, 5-Minute Dinners
Crock Pot Cooking: Southwest Chicken Recipe, Artichoke Chicken
If you have some fresh or frozen chicken breasts, and a few canned goods, you can make these two delicious 4-ingredient recipes in five minutes each.
Talk about easy... all it takes is a crock pot, some chicken, and a few canned ingredients and you are ready to make dinner in five minutes flat. Dinner doesn't have to be a struggle to be homemade and delicious. These recipes use ingredients that are already pre-seasoned and marinated -- but are also ingredients many people have on hand, such as salsa, canned tomatoes, and chicken. Using pre-seasoned ingredients cuts out time-consuming steps such as chopping vegetables, marinating, and making cook-ready fresh ingredients. It also reduces the number of ingredients you need to have on hand to make dinner. At just four ingredients each, you almost always know that you'll have on hand the ingredients you need to make one of these delicious dinners on short notice.
With the following quick-and-easy recipes, you can add the ingredients to the crock pot in between brushing your teeth and drying your hair, set off for work, and have a delicious home-cooked meal waiting for you when you get home. Or, with three hours cooking time on a high setting, you will be equally treated to the easiest delicious dinner you can imagine. If you don't have a crock pot or slow cooker, an oven safe pot placed in a 300 degree F (180 degree C) oven will work just as well. Also, as both meals are simmered in tomato juices rather than seared in butter or fried in oil, they are both low-fat, healthy dinner options to boot.
Treat yourself to some spare time, and treat your family to a great meal.
Southwest Chicken Recipe
Using salsa in this recipe saves the time you would use to cut fresh onions, peppers and cilantro, yet brings you the great flavor you crave from your southwestern cuisine. If you prefer, this dish can also be served over rice instead of in tortillas.
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breasts
- 1 cup salsa
- 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
- tortillas
Directions
- Add all ingredients to crock pot or slow cooker. Cook on low heat for 8 hours, or high heat for three hours.
- Serve chicken in tortillas and garnish as desired.
Artichoke Chicken Recipe
Using seasoned, marinated artichokes in this recipe saves the time you would spend chopping fresh herbs and preparing your artichokes.
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breasts
- 1 jar marinated artichokes
- 1 can diced tomatoes or diced tomatoes with Italian seasonings
- 1 bag minute rice
Directions
- Add chicken, artichokes and tomatoes to crock pot or slow cooker. Cook on low setting for eight hours, or for three hours on high.
- Prepare rice according to package directions. Serve chicken over rice.
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