Showing posts with label crock pot recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crock pot recipes. Show all posts

Saturday, July 7, 2012

What's for Dinner? CHICKEN RANCH TACOS.

Here's a little secret about me: The hunk doesn't love me because I am awesome at cooking. I am not. We eat mainly veggies & sometimes grilled meat & while I've gotten pretty good at cooking veggies, I don't know how to make a lot of "recipes". I'm the queen of grilled, single ingredient vegetables. Garlic, salt & pepper, olive oil....that's about the extent of the ingredients I'm comfortable using.
That said, I am trying to change that about myself. I feel like I can't be the only one out there clueless in the kitchen, so I've decided to introduce a new feature on my blog: "What's for Dinner?" Perhaps you will follow along & maybe learn something new or at the very least, have a good laugh at me trying to not suck at cooking.

Tonight's recipe is CHICKEN RANCH TACOS. These came out absolutely delicious. The ingredients are super inexpensive & the recipe is crazy easy. And the best part? I finally got to use the crock pot my mom gave us a year ago that I've been scared to touch.

SHOPPING LIST:
-2 pounds raw (not frozen) chicken
-1 can of chicken broth (box is pictured, $1 at dollar store. the box is the same as 2 cans, only use half if you buy the box)
-1 pack Hidden Valley Ranch mix
-1 pack taco seasoning (I like Old El Paso)
-Ranch dressing
-lettuce (I prefer to use romaine)
-flour tortillas

DIRECTIONS:
1. Put chicken, chicken broth, taco seasoning, & Ranch mix in the crockpot. Stir. Cook on LOW for 3 hours.
2. Shred chicken. I used my hands to pull the chicken apart. It's so tender it's easy to do. If anyone has a better idea, please share. That's the best plan I could come up with.
3. Put the shredded chicken back in the crock pot & cook on LOW for 30 more minutes. 4. Drain chicken.
5. Assemble tacos: tortilla, chicken, lettuce, ranch. I served them with white cheese dip & blue corn chips & tomatoes from the garden on the side.
6. Thank me later.

Cheers,
Savannah Marie