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How To Make The Best Crock Pot Cowboy Chicken

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Crock Pot Cowboy Chicken. If you have never heard of Cowboy Caviar, you are probably thinking, what the heck is it? Cowboy Caviar is a dip that consists of peppers, onions, tomatoes, beans, seasonings, and a lite dressing. It is so good and healthy for you. Although Crock Pot Cowboy Chicken isn’t exactly the same as Cowboy Caviar, it’s pretty similar.

Crock Pot Cowboy Chicken consists of healthy ingredients like veggies and beans, and chicken – of course, as well as some flavorful seasonings. It cooks slow so that they meat cooks thoroughly, but remains juicy. It is a healthy dish so you don’t have to feel guilty pigging out on this yummy meal. You can eat it for lunch, dinner, or even as a snack in between meals.

Cooking Made Easy

If you have read any of my recipes, you know that I am all about simplicity, when it comes to cooking. The meals I make are super easy to make and this dinner is no exception! Of course, you should also know that not only do I want easy recipes, I do want to eat delicious food! Many people think you can’t have easy and delicious. However, I am here to show you how you can have both!

For this yummy crock pot cowboy chicken, you start out by mixing a few seasonings then dump the ingredients in the crock pot. The crock pot will take care of the rest so you can do what you need to do. And then later on, voila, dinner will be ready!

And if you are looking for a new crock pot, I highly recommend the All-Clad Programmable Slow Cooker. It takes the guesswork out of cooking. Just hit whether you want a high or low temperature and it allows you to go about your business while your food is cooking. It’s wonderful!

Cowboy Chicken Ingredients

  • 2 lbs Boneless Chicken I prefer Chicken Breast, but Thighs are good too
  • 1 jar Salsa Whatever your favorite is! (small jar is best)
  • 1 can Corn Fire roasted is great. You can also do a small bag of frozen corn.
  • 1 can Black Beans

Cowboy Chicken Seasoning

  • 1/2 – 1 tsp Chili Powder Depends on your heat preference
  • 1 tsp Cumin
  • 1-1.5 tsp Cilantro
  • 1 tsp Garlic Powder

Instructions

Making Cowboy Chicken

  • Put all seasoning ingredients in a small bowl and mix well.
  • Cut the fat off the chicken and then put in the crockpot.
  • Top the chicken with the seasoning.
  • Empty the jar of salsa in the crockpot.
  • Drain corn and dump over chicken.
  • Cover and cook on low for 4 hours.
  • Drain and rinse black beans thoroughly, then dump into crockpot.
  • Cover and cook for an additional 1-2 hours.
  • Serve over rice and top with your favorite toppings; sour cream, greek yogurt, cheese, guacamole, etc.

For this Mexican inspired crock pot chicken dinner, you can follow my recipe exactly as written or you can use it as inspiration and come up with your own delicious concoction. Since my recipe is on hand, let’s go over what you will need to get started.

For the crock pot cowboy chicken, it’s obvious that you will need chicken. From there, you will need corn (canned or frozen), black beans, salsa (your favorite salsa would be an amazing choice!), and then some go-to Mexican seasons such as cumin, garlic powder, chili pepper, and cilantro. If you wanted, you could always buy a pre-made fajita or taco seasoning package and use that instead. Personally, I prefer to make my own because it can be tweaked with what you like the best and it is a lot cheaper! Cheap, easy, and delicious – best way to be as far as cooking goes!

Serving Cowboy Chicken

Is this slow cooker chicken a stew? Is it like a chili that can go over nachos? Can you make it into a burrito? Or is it more like fajita filling? Or perhaps, you can put it over rice and make this a crock pot cowboy chicken rice bowl? The truth is, this is a versatile recipe that can be served as any of the above?

I’m sure some people have family members who prefer tortillas versus another family member who wants to eat a rice bowl. With this crock pot cowboy chicken recipe, everyone can eat it their own way. The last thing I want to do is make more than 1 meal for dinner to please everyone. Generally, it’s eat what I made or be hungry! However, with this recipe, you can offer a few different meals without having to cook a million different dinners to satisfy everyone. Just offer a few different ‘toppings’ on the dinner table and each person can tailor their own meal to their liking. Easy peasy!

Easy & Healthy Family Dinner

As easy as this recipe is to make, it is loved by everyone in my family. Seriously, everyone. And I have a few picky eaters in my crew and even they love it! They eat so much at dinner, when I make this. It’s astonishing actually! In order to stretch the meal further, sometimes I add cooked rice to the crock pot (after the crock pot cowboy chicken is cooked) so that they get fuller before they go for their 5th taco! Sometimes it helps, sometimes they just can’t help themselves and continue to eat, eat, eat!

More Crock Pot Meals To Try

If you are obsessed with crock pot meals like me, you are always on the hunt for finding new ideas. I love my slow cooker recipes that consist of meat with cream of soups, but sometimes you want a crock pot meal that is easy and DIFFERENT. I have some awesomely easy recipes that you can add to your dinner rotation. And the best part is that they are easy, but different from your regular crock pot meals.

5 Ingredient Beef Stroganoff

Creamy Chicken With Peas

Honey Parmesan Crusted Pork

Mango Pork

Easy Dessert Recipes

Rolo Cookies

Cheesecake Cookie Cups

Cherry Pie Dump Cake

Cannoli Dip

Different Martini Recipes

Pistachio Amaretto Martini

Tiramisu Martini

Bananas Foster Martini

Chocolate Covered Raspberry Martini

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Crockpot Cowboy Chicken

Crockpot Cowboy Chicken is an easy chicken recipe your whole family will love packed with corn, salsa, and black beans.
Course Dinner
Cuisine Mexican
Keyword chicken, crockpot, easy dinner, mexican bowls
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 6 hours
Total Time 6 hours 5 minutes
Servings 8 people
Author jenahoward

Equipment

  • crockpot

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs Boneless Chicken I prefer Chicken Breast, but Thighs are good too
  • 1 jar Salsa Whatever your favorite is! (small jar is best)
  • 1 can Corn Fire roasted is great. You can also do a small bag of frozen corn.
  • 1 can Black Beans

Cowboy Chicken Seasoning

  • 1/2 – 1 tsp Chili Powder Depends on your heat preference
  • 1 tsp Cumin
  • 1 tsp Cilantro
  • 1 tsp Garlic Powder

Instructions

Making Cowboy Chicken Season

  • Put all seasoning ingredients in a small bowl and mix well.
  • Cut the fat off the chicken and then put in the crockpot.
  • Top the chicken with the seasoning.
  • Empty the jar of salsa in the crockpot.
  • Drain corn and dump over chicken.
  • Cover and cook on low for 4 hours.
  • Drain and rinse black beans thoroughly. Then dump into crockpot.
  • Cover and cook for an additional 1-2 hours.
  • Serve over rice and top with your favorite toppings; sour cream, greek yogurt, cheese, guacamole, etc.
  • ENJOY!
Dinner, Grill, Salad, Steak, Vegetables

Nutritious And Healthy Steak Tip Salad

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Steak Tip Salad is a healthy alternative to heavier foods. Just coming off of Christmas break and all the chocolate, cheese, and wine that comes along with it, I was ready to get back to normal. Normal meant, a regular routine with work/school, bed time, and eating REAL meals. Don’t get me wrong, I love eating rich foods and I love my wine, but if I ate one more appetizer in place of a meal, I was going to lose my mind!

Clean Eating

I was craving something healthy that wasn’t overly heavy and tasted clean. Steak tip salad it was! And it’s really easy to make which is a bonus. Marinating steak a day or two ahead of time is advised. Mainly, so you don’t forget and then the night of, it’s too late to do a marinade. Additionally, the longer it marinates, the more you taste the marinade, of course.

Prep Is Easy

To prep this steak tip salad, I marinated my steak the day before. Randomly, I happened to have a few extra minutes so I threw the steak in the marinade and popped it in the refrigerator. I figured I was ahead of the game since it would be ready the next day. I thought, “whew, that was easy…now, what was I working on again?” Ever have those moments? You are on your way to do something and then get distracted by something else. That is basically how the steak was prepped!

Since I was “so prepared” by marinating the steak ahead of time, making dinner was pretty easy. First, I fired up the grill and put the steak on. While the steak was cooking, I started making the hardboiled eggs. I don’t know about your house, but in my house, everyone loves those. I have to make 12 hardboiled eggs for 8 people. And sometimes they are still looking for more.

Now that the steak and eggs were cooking, I turned my attention to chopping veggies. Easy enough? Of course, but it’s dinner time which means kids were running in and out of the kitchen and screaming. Running and screaming is not a great combination while I’m chopping vegetables with a Santoko knife! Oh, did I mention that they were “starving” and wanted some of the sliced peppers? Meanwhile, theg they asked, “when is dinner going to be ready?” Ugh! Every time!

Extra Time On Your Hands

Lucky for me, the steak tip salad was just about done. The steak had a few more minutes and the eggs needed to cool a little more. So there was just enough time to set the table and get the littles their drinks. Once that was all set, the steak was done and the eggs magically came out of their shells (if only that could really happen). Since the steak should needed to sit for a few minutes, it was actually better for it to wait for everything else to come together. Finally, just had to slice it up and plate everyone’s meal. Voila! Dinner was served. And it was DELICIOUS!

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Steak Tip Salad

This steak tip salad is your meal, not your side
Course Main Course, Main Dish, Salad, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword cobb salad, salad, steak salad, steak tips
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 18 minutes
Total Time 18 minutes
Servings 8 people
Author jenahoward

Equipment

  • Grill
  • Pot

Ingredients

Steak Tips

  • 1.25 pounds Steak Tips

Marinade

  • 1/4 cup Soy Sauce I prefer the low sodium soy sauce
  • 1/8 cup Worcestershire Sauce
  • 1 tbsp Garlic Powder
  • 1 tsp Ginger Ground ginger is what I use
  • Salt To taste
  • Pepper To taste

Salad

  • 16 oz Salad Mix
  • 1 pint Grape Tomatoes
  • 1 can Olives Drained
  • 1 Red Pepper Chopped
  • 1 Orange Pepper Chopped
  • 1/2 Onion Yellow or Purple Onion
  • 8 Eggs Hardboiled
  • 1 Cucumber Peeled & Chopped

Instructions

Marinade

  • Mix together all marinade ingredients.
  • Pour over steak tips.
  • Cover tightly and shake container well to get the marinade all over the steak.
  • Marinate for 30 minutes or 24 hours (make sure your steak will be fine to eat by then).

Steak

  • Preheat Grill to medium high heat
  • Put steak on grill for approx 7 minutes (based on Med. Rare with a pink center), will take 9 minutes for Medium
  • After 7 minutes, turn the steak and cook for an additional 7 minutes (will take 9 more minutes for Medium).
  • Test the steak. For rare, it should be done. For Med Rare it might take a few more minutes. If the steak seems squishy with the tongs, it might not be done. The more firm it is, the more it is cooked. I prefer Medium Rare and like it a little squishy, but with some firmness.
  • Once cooked to your liking, cut steak into bite sized pieces and set aside.

Hardboiled Eggs

  • While the steak is cooking, place eggs in a medium pot and then fill 3/4 of the way with water.
  • Turn heat to medium high and let the water boil (with the eggs in it).
  • When the water begins to boil, turn the heat to medium and continue cooking the eggs for 8 more minutes.
  • When the eggs are cooked, flush the water in the pot with cold water and let the eggs sit for a few minutes before de-shelling them. They will be really hot for a few minutes.
  • Peel shells off of each egg and set eggs aside.

Salad

  • While the steak and eggs are cooking, pour salad mix into a large bowl..
  • Chop up the red pepper, orange pepper, cucumber, and onion.
  • Put all ingredients in the salad bowl.
  • Drain and then dump the olives directly into the salad bowl.
  • Wash and dump the grape tomatoes into the salad bowl.
  • Don't add the eggs yet. Mix all other salad ingredients with tongs.
  • When the salad has been made, the eggs have been de-shelled, and the steak has been cut up, plate each person's plate with salad, an egg to the side, and steak on top of the salad.
  • Add salad dressing of any choice, if desired. Enjoy!