Slow Cooker Chipotle Chicken Stew

Slow Cooker Chipotle Chicken Stew is full of flavor and easy to make in the slow cooker

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Happy Monday! Have you done your meal planning for the week yet? If not, I’m here to help. If you’ve already got it figured out put today’s recipe on the list for next week.

This is my 5th slow cooker recipe of 2015. I promised one a week and I’m determined to keep my word. I hope you are enjoying them all. You can check out my 30+ Slow Cooker Recipe post here for lots of great recipes. I am often asked which slow cooker I use and here it is.

I like to cook chicken in my slow cooker on days when I can put it in later in the afternoon. Chicken doesn’t need to cook as long as pork or beef does. Chicken really only needs 3- 4 hours. You can cook it longer, I just don’t like the texture chicken gets when it cooks longer in the slow cooker.

I really wasn’t sure what to call today’s recipe. It’s not a soup but it has a bit of liquid in it so I decided to call it a stew.  To thicken it up a bit I like to place tortilla chips in the bottom of the bowl and then scoop the stew on top of it. The stew also has red peppers, green peppers and onions in it.

The chips also add some nice flavor to the stew.  Of course, you can always just leave them out too or crumble them up over the top!
This recipe calls for adobe chili peppers.  You buy them in a can in the Latin aisle of the grocery store.  You can control the heat of this dish by the amount of peppers you put in .  We don’t like things really spicy so I only used 1 Tbsp of chopped up peppers but feel free to add more if you like a bit more heat.

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Slow Cooker Chipotle Chicken Stew

Course slow cooker main dish

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 4 hours

Total Time 4 hours 15 minutes

Servings 8 servings

Author LeighAnne Wilkes

Ingredients

• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 1 C red onion chopped
• 1 green pepper chopped
• 1 red pepper chopped
• 2 C chicken broth
• 1/4 C fresh cilantro chopped
• 1 Tbsp cumin
• 1-2 Tbsp chopped chipotle chile canned in adobo sauce
• 6 garlic cloves chopped
• 2 28 oz. cans of petit cut tomatoes, undrained
• 1 4 oz. can green chilies, undrained
• tortilla chips

Instructions

• Heat a pan over medium high heat with 1 Tbsp olive oil.
• Add chicken and brown on both sides (about 3 minutes a side)
• Combine red onion, peppers, broth, cilantro, cumin, chilies, garlic, tomatoes.
• Add chicken to slow cooker and cover with combined ingredients.
• Cook on low for 4 hours.
• Remove chicken and shred. Return meat to stew.
• Add tortilla chips to individual bowls and ladle stew over chips.

My favorite slow cooker.