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This recipe is perfect for meal prep. Set it and forget it in the crockpot and store it in the refrigerator in a sealed container. Some meal prep ideas with this southwest chicken crockpot:
Season your chicken with your favorite taco seasoning before topping with beans and other ingredients. This will add intense flavor to the dish. I like to use this taco seasoning combination from my Taco Tuesday Flank Steak recipe. It’s easy, delicious and has no added sugar. I also like Siete taco seasonings, I would reccomend half a pack for this southwest chicken crockpot.
These are the main ingredients and substitutions. See recipe card below for full ingredients list and instructions for Southwest Chicken Crockpot.
Chicken Breast: you can substitute chicken thighs for chicken breast. They will add a ton of delicious fat and flavor.
Black Beans: any and all beans will work. Be sure to rinse and drain prior to adding to the crockpot.
Corn: drain the corn prior to adding to the crockpot. If you want to lower the carbs omit entirely or use half a can.
Rotel: I love a good Rotel moment. It adds so much flavor to any dish. You could substitute with diced tomatoes and green chilies.
Cream Cheese: I like adding cream cheese to make this dish creamy at the end. It gives it a nice twist from the typical southwest bowls. You can use full fat, less fat or even greek yogurt. Definitely give the creamy addition a try in this southwest chicken crockpot.
Add chicken to the bottom of a crockpot. Season with salt, pepper and juice of half a lime.
Top the chicken with beans, corn, rotel and salsa. Cover and set on low for 4.5 hours or high for 2.
When the chicken is fully cooked shred inside the crockpot with a fork and mix together well. Chicken should shred easily.
Optional: add 2 oz. cream cheese directly to the crockpot and mix together until the cream cheese is fully melted and combined with the chicken.
Nutrition Facts w/out cream cheese: 159 calories: 22 P / 18 C / 1 F
Nutrition Facts w/ cream cheese: 176 calories: 23 P / 19 C / 3 F
Serving size remains the same.
While you could enjoy this southwest chicken crockpot on it’s own as a protein packed meal or snack I would suggest trying it:
“ohsnapmacros Southwest Chicken Crockpot”
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13 Responses
This was delicious! I served it over cauliflower rice and added some avocado hot sauce on top! I can’t believe this was so easy to make and I’m thankful that I don’t have to give up delicious food while tracking macros! My mom even tried it and she loved it! I believe this will be a staple for my weekly meal preps!
Yum!!! Thank you!
Where can I find the serving size?
Right above the ingredients.
Is the approximate serving size of 167G per correct? It just seems like a smaller portion size than most of your recipes. Thanks for your awesome meals and content!
That’s because it’s just the chicken at 170 calories vs. a full meal with pasta or rice, etc. which has a higher volume.
You could always double it too for a larger meal by itself but it’s written so that you could put this over rice, pasta, cauli rice, on nachoed, or a potato. Hope that helps!!
So easy and delicious! Makes great for meal prep and so versatile in what you can serve it!
Do you think this would freeze well? I made a double batch and wanted to freeze a portion of it for later.
Very good, husband approved, and super easy! Will definitely make this again. I love recipes like this that have minimal ingredients because I am not one who likes to cook. However, I still can not seem to find the serving size on this recipe? I looked above the ingredients as answered in a previous question, but it’s not showing up on my end. I must have read it over 50 times. I had to finally just trust that the serving size is 167g as stated by another reviewer. I also looked in MFP, but it only gives number of servings, but not the serving size in grams. Is the serving size for this recipe 167g?
The serving is 167 grams. It was just left off during the site-wide update as we have had to go through every single recipe card. You can always weigh your final and divide by the total servings to get the total grams per serving which is the most accurate way to get a gram per serving on any and every recipe you make from the internet. 🙂
Thank you!
10/10 the easiest tastiest crockpot meal! And to be able to have it done in 2 hours, extra points for that. I served mine over rice and added avocado & sour cream. Delish!