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If you are looking for a healthier recipe, you have got to try this! It tastes amazing and you don’t even need salad dressing on top!
Slow Cooker Santa Fe Chicken Salad Recipe
This chicken salad tastes amazing and you don’t even need salad dressing on top!
Serving people
Ingredients
- 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 14 ounce can diced tomatoes with mild green chilies, not drained
- 15 ounce can black beans, drained
- 1 cup frozen corn
- 1 medium zucchini, diced
- ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 14 ounces fat free chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- salt, to taste
- 8 cups spinach, (or your favorite lettuce)
- 1 avocado
Equipment
Instructions
- Place your chicken breasts on the bottom of the slow cooker. On top of the chicken dump in the chicken broth, beans (drained), corn, tomatoes, cilantro, zucchini, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, and salt in the crock pot.
- Cook on low for 10 hours or on high for 6 hours. Half hour before serving, remove chicken and shred. Return chicken to slow cooker and stir in. Adjust salt and seasoning to taste. Serve over spinach or lettuce. Serve with avocado slices on top.
- (You can add our favorite dressing if you want.)
Nutrition
Calories: 284 kcal · Carbohydrates: 24 g · Protein: 32 g · Fat: 7 g · Saturated Fat: 1 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 73 mg · Sodium: 369 mg · Potassium: 1144 mg · Fiber: 8 g · Sugar: 2 g · Vitamin A: 3032 IU · Vitamin C: 23 mg · Calcium: 79 mg · Iron: 3 mg
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It calls for cayenne pepper in the instructions but it doesn’t tell you how much to add in the ingredients.
Would love to pin this, but it does not allow me to because of a restriction on the pic. Any way to fix this?
This was amazing, everyone at my home loved it, thank you for sharing.
Maybe I screwed something up. It’s super watery, like soup and very bland. Once I added more of the listed seasonings, it just tasted like mediocre chili. As my first all-day slow cooker recipe, this was a huge dissapointment. Any ideas for if I try it again?
This happened to me too! Really really watery and bland.
So, I haven’t tried the recipe yet (hoping to do so today/tomorrow) but just from looking at the ingredients I will probably skip adding the chicken broth for a start. It looks like there will be a lot of liquid released from the other ingredients. If starting with dry black beans then perhaps the extra liquid would be good but I am keen to try without first.
I am also likely going to decrease the cooking time. When I have cooked chicken-based dishes in the slow cooker, 4.5hrs on low has been perfect for chicken breast. So I think I will time it for that, and then check where the beans are at and go from there! Hope you guys have better luck next time – I’m really crossing my fingers for this to work, it looks soooo good!
Loved it! Easy, not overly heavy, and great flavors. Even my foodie husband was impressed. Will definitely add it to the rotation.