With just a few simple ingredients you can make some pretty amazing chicken taco meat in your slow cooker. Just serve the shredded chicken with corn or flour tortillas and your favorite taco toppings for a great dinner that is perfect for any night of the week! This recipe will yield about 16 tacos, serving 2 tacos per person.
Prep Time5 minutesmins
Cook Time4 hourshrs
Total Time4 hourshrs5 minutesmins
Course: Entrée, Freezer Meals
Cuisine: Mexican
Keyword: 10 Ingredients Or Less, 5 Ingredients Or Less, Cheese, Chicken, Easy Crock-Pot Recipes, Easy Recipes, Frugal Recipes, Healthy, Tacos
Place chicken in the bottom of a 5 quart or larger slow cooker.
In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the salsa, onions, bell peppers and taco seasoning until well mixed.
Pour salsa mixture over the chicken in the slow cooker.
Cover and cook on LOW for 8 hours or 4 hours on HIGH or until chicken is cooked through (165° F Or 75° C) when tested with an instant read meat thermometer.
Shred the chicken meat with two forks.
Serve shredded chicken inside the flour or corn tortillas (or taco shells) with your favorite taco toppings.
Place all ingredients into a 1 gallon size zippered freezer bag OR FoodSaver bag.
Place bag on flat surface and seal bag closed while pressing out as much excess air as possible OR use your FoodSaver sealing system to vacuum seal the bag closed.
Label bag with date prepared, name of recipe, ingredients and cooking instructions.
Lay bag flat in freezer and allow to freeze for several hours. At that point you can stand the bags upright in your freezer if desired.
To Cook Freezer Meal:
Remove freezer meal bag from freezer and place either in refrigerator overnight OR in a clean kitchen sink filled with cool water for several hours just until the freezer meal is partially thawed enough to dump the contents of the bag into the slow cooker.
Cook according to the recipe directions adding 1 additional hour cooking time (in this case 9 hours on LOW or 5 hours on HIGH from the partially thawed state ).
Nutritional information and Weight Watchers points calculated based on the recipe as written and does not include the tortillas, taco shells or any additional toppings you may decide to use.