by Kristl on July 18, 2012
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Recipe type: Main
Author: Kristl Story, TheBudgetDiet.com
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Serves: 6
This Chicken Taco recipe will soon be one of your favorite quick and easy dinners because it’s a crock pot Chicken Taco. It takes less than 5 minutes to put the ingredients in the crock pot, and 6 hours later you’ll have a delicious shredded chicken taco. Effortless!
Ingredients
- 6 frozen chicken breasts (do not thaw)
- 1 cup salsa
- 1 packet of taco seasoning or use 2 tablespoons of The Budget Diet’s Homemade Taco Seasoning*
- ¼ cup ranch dressing
- 18 hard of soft taco shells
- Mexican blend or Cheddar cheese, shredded
- shredded lettuce
- diced tomato
Instructions
- Place frozen chicken breasts in a crock pot.
- Add salsa.
- Sprinkle with taco seasoning.
- Cook on low for 6 hours or until chicken shreds easily** with the back of a spoon.
- Shred chicken and add ranch dressing.
- Fill hard or soft taco shells with chicken, cheese, shredded lettuce and diced tomato.
Notes
*The Budget Diet’s Homemade Taco Seasoning: 4 tablespoons chili powder, 2 tablespoons cumin, 1 tablespoon dried minced onion, 1 tablespoon black pepper, 2 teaspoons paprika, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon garlic powder, 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper, 1 teaspoon dried oregano. Stir all ingredients together and store in an airtight container. This recipe makes the equivalent of 5 taco seasoning packets for a fraction of the cost!
**”easily” is the key word! If it is difficult to shred with the back of the spoon, and the chicken seems tough…it’s not ready!
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I have tried chicken tacos with my brood without much luck, but these sound really good, I think I’m going to have to give these a try! Plus, the crock pot! Easy, peasy! Thanks!
Looks yummy! I’m gonna have to try this =)
Wow, sounds like a great recipe and so easy. I love those easy to combine spice packets that you don’t even have to think about it.
You’ll have no excuses for eating out when you have a simple recipe like this!
If you get a chance to make it, please come back and rate the recipe. Thanks!
I hope these make the cut in your family! Let me know!
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Wow, I really have to give this one a try. I love that you can put the chicken in frozen too, as I can never remember to take it out of the freezer and defrost it! I just pinned it too so I can remember this one…
I’m on a mission to come up with more crock pot recipes that start with frozen chicken breasts because it’s so easy!
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This was so easy to make and so delicious! Can’t wait to make it again! I used a smoky chipotle salsa…yummy!! Also, I fried my own tortillas rather than using store bought tortillas. ❤️
For some reason I can’t click on the stars but I would give this recipe 5 stars!
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