EASY CHICKEN TACO SOUP

Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 7 Hours

Attention all Foodie Friends with a slow cooker!!!

This one dish wonder is a hearty combination of beans, corn, tomatoes, and taco seasonings, slow cooked with white meat chicken. It's deliciously finished with Cheddar cheese & Sour cream, then served with your favorite tortilla chips!

My instincts told me that this would be a crowd pleaser, so I bravely decided to serve it to guests my first time making it. What a hit!! Everyone loved it.

Made mostly of canned ingredients that are easily found in the grocery store, this tasty soup lets the slow cooker do the work so you don't have to! This recipe makes 6 servings.

Ingredients:

1 onion, chopped 1 (16 ounce) can chili beans 1 (15 ounce) can black beans 1 (15 ounce) can whole kernel corn, undrained 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce 2 (10 ounce) cans diced tomatoes with

green chilies, undrained 1 (1.25 ounce) package taco seasoning 3 whole skinless, boneless chicken breasts Shredded Cheddar cheese Sour cream Lots of tortilla chips!

Directions:

1.	Place the onion, chili beans, black beans, corn, tomato sauce, and diced tomatoes in a slow cooker. Add taco seasoning, and stir to blend. Lay chicken breasts on top of the mixture, pressing down slightly until just covered by the other ingredients. Set slow cooker for low heat, cover, and cook for 5 hours.
2.	Remove chicken breasts from the soup, and allow to cool long enough to be handled. Cut chicken into bite size pieces and put chicken back into the soup. Continue cooking for 2 hours. Serve topped with shredded Cheddar cheese, a dollop of sour cream, and your favorite tortilla chips. Muy facil y delicioso!!!

LET'S HAVE A CHICKEN PICKIN'!

Hi Y'all! It's been a coon's age since I've had myself an old fashioned Southern supper....so I've been fixin' all week to have a Chicken Pickin'! What in tarnation is goin' on over here??

OK, enough with the southern accent.. so what is a "Chicken Pickin'"?

Well, in the American South, a "pig pickin'" is a dinner which involves the barbecuing of a whole hog. Often the hog is basted with sauce while cooking. When the cooking is complete, the meat should ideally be tender to the point of falling off of the bone. The meat is then "pulled" into traditional Carolina-style pork barbecue, or may even be picked off the hog itself by the guests. (It is from the latter that this dinner gains its name.)


For those who have tried it, you know there is nothing more deeply satisfying than a steaming hot Pulled Pork sandwich! Today I am going to change things up a bit; I'll be using chicken and a crock pot for our "Chicken Pickin' "! So read on, if you want to make an easy dinner that's really tasty and a little different from the usual same-old, same-old. Plus, your kitchen is guaranteed to smell wonderfully delicious...

PULLED CHICKEN RECIPE
4 to 6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut in half
1 cup ketchup
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons yellow or brown mustard
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons Tabasco sauce
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 large onion cut in half and thinly sliced
1 1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
hamburger buns or soft rolls

In the bottom of your slow cooker crock pot, whisk ketchup, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar, mustard, chili powder, salt, pepper, and Tabasco together until well combined. Then mix in chicken and onions, stir until all chicken is coated. Cook on low 4 hours or high 2 hours. That's it.

Then just use a fork (or similar kitchen tool) to "pull" the chicken into barbecue strips as seen in photo. At this point you can toss it with the sauce in the crock pot if you like it juicy, or you can drain out some of the sauce, and then toss it, if you'd like it a little on the dryer side. Keep it warm in the crock pot until you are ready to eat.

Serve on a toasted bun with melted cheddar cheese. Mmm..the traditional side dishes are cole slaw, baked beans, and hush puppies with sweet tea or beer. We decided to enjoy ours with a deli pickle, our favorite potato chips and a cold brewsky while watching the football game! What's better than that?!

Well, butter my biscuits!! I reckon y'all will go HOG wild once you get a taste of this Chicken Pickin'!!  An' ya won't be bitin' off more than you can chew neither, 'cause the fixin' is as easy as water off a duck's back! So jes' gimme a holler, and let me know how yers turns out!