Slow Cooker Bajio Chicken Salad Copycat Recipe

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Slow Cooker Bajio Chicken Salad Copycat Recipe

A Bajio copycat chicken salad recipe made in your slow cooker!

Prep Time10

Cook Time6

Total Time6 10

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Mexican

Keyword: Bajio Chicken Salad, chicken salad, mexican chicken, slow cooker chicken

Servings: people

Calories: 210kcal

Equipment

Slow Cooker

Ingredients

5 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
½ cup salsa
1 Tablespoon cumin
½ cup brown sugar (or more for taste)
1 can diced green chilies
6 oz lemon lime soda

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a crock pot. Cook on low for 5-6 hours. Remove chicken and shred. Return to crock pot and cook 1 more hour. Thicken the juices with a little cornstarch mixed in water.
Serve with flour tortillas, lettuce, cheese, black beans and any other taco fixings.
If you want it spicier rather than sweeter add a hotter salsa and more green chilies.
This would be easy to use as a freezer meal! Once it is all cooked and shredded, pour into a freezer gallon-sized ziploc bag. Freeze flat. When you are ready to use it, quickly reheat it (either in a crock pot or even a microwave!). (It works best if you let it thaw in your fridge for about 24 hours before reheating it)

Notes

I had mine on top of a salad with black beans, avocados and tomatoes; the kids had their chicken in a quesadilla, and my husband ate his on crunchy tortilla shells . . . whatever fits your fancy!

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