In a situation of perpetual lack of time, preparing a full meal becomes more and more difficult every year. Chicken recipes often come to the rescue. Now that you have an indispensable kitchen assistant - a crock-pot, it will be even easier to cook chicken dinner, and there will be enough time. While the chicken is cooking, let the hostess do other things or pay attention to herself. So that you don’t waste time looking for the right recipe, we offer a selection of the best, according to which you can cook chicken in a slow cooker with vegetables.
Simple and budget (with potatoes)
Nobody will be able to refuse from tasting this hearty dish. And cooking chicken breasts with potatoes and onions in a slow cooker is one sheer pleasure. Check your bins for these products:
- two chicken breasts;
- potatoes - one and a half kilograms;
- sour cream product - 1 glass, you can take mayonnaise instead of sour cream, but you must understand that the taste will be different;
- onions - if it is large we will manage with one head, we will take copies of medium diameter in the amount of two pieces;
- to make chicken breasts with potatoes in a slow cooker even more fragrant, add 6 cloves of garlic;
- salt - to your taste;
- lean oil for frying;
- spices for cooking chicken.
Product Preparation
When you are convinced that all of the above ingredients are present in your assortment, it's time to start the preparatory work.
Let's have a potato. Wash it thoroughly and peel it. Cut as you like: slices, cubes (large) or bars. Before cooking, put this root vegetable in a bowl of clean water so that it does not darken.
We also perform cleansing manipulations with onions and rinse the vegetable under a stream of cold water. We cut it as you like. We clean and garlic cloves. We press them through the press or chop them very finely.
Sour cream sauce
This recipe for a delicious chicken breast will require a little more preliminary steps: prepare sour cream sauce. Put the sour cream product in a bowl, mix with special chicken seasoning and add all the garlic. Do you like salt? Add a pinch of salt directly to the resulting sauce. The fill is ready. Let's deal with the meat element.
Breast preparation
We wash the breast of the bird and divide along. Use a good sharp knife for this manipulation. We put the resulting parts in a bowl with sauce. We leave for fifteen minutes - to be saturated with aromas.
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And now more about how to place chicken breast with vegetables in a slow cooker.
We add vegetable oil to the bottom of the non-stick bowl of the kitchen appliance. Fat should completely cover the bottom and rise above it to three millimeters.
Stack breast fillets, removing them from the sauce. During the procedure, pour each fillet with onion.
We put the potato ingredient on top of the meat, adding salt to it in the process. The potato will cover the poultry meat completely. Pour the remaining sauce from sour cream onto potatoes.
We set the program "Baking". It usually lasts forty minutes. When the first stage is over, carefully open the lid and check how the chicken breast with vegetables feels in the multicooker. Most likely, it is almost ready, but to get a more delicate taste and rich aroma, you can extend the mode for another ten minutes.
Chicken breast in a slow cooker with zucchini and eggplant
Another win-win option for lunch or dinner with chicken. Especially the dish will appeal to fans of zucchini and eggplant. A good budget option at the high season, but in the autumn or winter, cooked in a multicooker chicken breast with eggplant and zucchini will remind you of a joyful summer.
We will need:
- chicken breast - about one kilogram;
- eggplant - three to four pieces;
- tomatoes - two pieces, you can replace this vegetable with tomato paste or ketchup;
- small zucchini;
- large onion;
- a third of a glass of water;
- salt and other spices to taste.
- garlic two to five cloves - depending on how you feel about it;
- vegetable oil, refined, without aroma;
- laurel leaf - one or two.
Preliminary preparation
To implement this recipe for chicken breast with vegetables in a slow cooker, you can not do without preparatory work.
We wash the poultry meat and cut it into medium pieces. We clean and chop the onion.
If you use tomatoes in a recipe, wash them and peel them. Slice according to your preference.
Zucchini can be peeled (if it is thick), or you can leave it. Cut the washed zucchini at random.
Garlic needs to be peeled and crushed by any method available to you.
Eggplant Processing
We wash the vegetables and remove the stalk. Dice each eggplant without peeling the outer peel. It is permissible to cut eggplant in circles if you really like them. Now put the eggplant in a bowl and fill it with salted water for ten to twenty minutes. It is better to carry out this cooking step at the beginning, and only then prepare other vegetables. This way save time.
Cooking method
Cooking in a slow cooker according to this recipe is easy. But you have to poke a little on the apparatus, pre-frying the ingredients, in the end to get a great dish.
We turn on the device in a network and we pour oil on a bottom. We set the program "Frying" and begin frying products. Onions and garlic are the first to go. Stir them to fry vegetables evenly.
After five to seven minutes, send the meat cubes into the bowl. It is advisable to remove the onion in a separate bowl. We fry the meat 7 minutes until the color changes. And now you can salt. Add spices that you like. Stir the contents of the multicooker and pour hot boiled water.
Send fried onions, eggplant and zucchini to the chicken. Do not forget about tomatoes. If tomato paste or ketchup is used in your case, add them (about three tablespoons). Add bay leaf and mix all foods.
After closing the lid, set the "Extinguishing" program. In forty minutes, the kitchen assistant will prepare a great lunch or dinner. Serve with potato or rice side dish.
Duo of cabbage and chicken
Braised cabbage with chicken breast also belongs to the category of simple recipes. It is especially nice to cook it using a slow cooker. The duo of these ingredients is an ageless and beloved classic food. What do we need to stew chicken breast and cabbage in a slow cooker?
List of required products:
- chicken breast - about half a kilogram;
- fresh cabbage, white cabbage - 700 grams;
- two medium carrots;
- large juicy onion;
- two to three tomatoes or one tablespoon of tomato paste;
- laurel leaf - 1-2 pieces;
- pepper and salt to your taste.
Step cooking
- Rinse the meat and cut into blocks or large cubes.
- Peel the onion from everything inedible and, rinsing in cold water, chop as convenient.
- Rinse and peel the carrots. Grate the root crop on a grater of any fraction. You can cut carrots in circles or segments if you like.
- Fill the bowl with oil, we will fry vegetables and chicken. Use the "Frying" mode. Prepare a mixture of chicken with vegetables for five to eight minutes. Stir the contents of the multicooker periodically. Salt a few minutes before putting cabbage.
- While vegetables and chicken are fried, we proceed to the preparation of cabbage. Remove the top leaves. Rinse the head out under a stream of cold water. Wash it with a towel. Chop this vegetable as thin as possible and, placing in a large bowl, add salt. Remember the leaves lightly with your hands so that the cabbage gives off some juice. You can use a wooden pestle.
When the chicken and vegetables are fried, pour cabbage into the bowl. Add tomato paste and laurel leaf. Close the lid and switch the program to "Extinguishing". After three minutes, carefully open the lid and mix the softened cabbage with the rest of the food. Close the lid again and wait for the program to end. If you consider it necessary, open the device in the process and, while mixing the contents, monitor the degree of readiness. The total cooking time is thirty to forty minutes, depending on the variety of cabbage.