How to Make Healthy Shredded Chicken

This recipe for healthy shredded chicken is one of the easiest you will ever come across. When it is finished, we use the shredded chicken for chicken salad, bbq chicken, chicken burritos, chicken for soup, chicken nachos and more. As a bonus, it is very inexpensive and can feed a large group.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Crock Pot
• Bag of Frozen Chicken Breasts (+3 lbs)

1. To make healthy shredded chicken, first set your crock pot to either the 8, 10, or 12 hour setting. We typically use the 8 hour setting and it comes out wonderful.

2. 

   Next, it is time to make healthy shredded chicken out of frozen chicken. Take all of the frozen chicken breasts in the bag and put them in the crock pot. If you are cooking for a smaller crowd, use half of a bag.

3. Add a half cup of water to the crock pot, cover it, and let it go to work. The chicken will naturally start to fall apart, do not remove the water created from the breasts thawing. At the 8 hour mark, use 2 forks to easily turn the breasts into shredded chicken - this should be effortless.

4. 

   Enjoy the healthy shredded chicken cold or warm in any way you can imagine. Most often we add a package of taco seasoning, grab some tortillas, lettuce, sour cream, cheese, salsa and make it a mexican night. This is an easy way to make a large meal for your family with very little effort.

Tips & Warnings

• This is great for anyone wanting a higher protein diet. It is extemely healthy (what you do with it once it is cooked can change that)!
• I do not recommend leaving a crock pot running while you are out of the house, it is a fire hazard.

[MariM]

on 2/13/2009 I never thought of doing this before. Good idea.5*recmd

[Marilynda]

on 2/13/2009 this sounds extremely easy. I love my crock pot so thanks for another use for it.