This recipe is part of our “E Crockpot Chicken Ideas” in the original Trim Healthy Mama book, pages 313 – 314. Along with chicken breasts, throw in canned tomatoes, onions, long string beans, a little chicken broth, sea salt, black pepper, and Italian seasoning. Add in uncooked quinoa or brown rice, or throw in some pre-cooked or canned beans or chick peas at the end.
E Italian Style
Description
This recipe is part of our "E Crockpot Chicken Ideas" in the original Trim Healthy Mama book, pages 313 - 314. Along with chicken breasts, throw in canned tomatoes, onions, long string beans, a little chicken broth, sea salt, black pepper, and Italian seasoning. Add in uncooked quinoa or brown rice, or throw in some pre-cooked or canned beans or chick peas at the end.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Along with chicken breasts, throw in canned tomatoes, onions, long string beans, a little chicken broth, sea salt, black pepper, and Italian seasoning. Add in uncooked quinoa or brown rice, or throw in some pre-cooked or canned beans or chick peas at the end.
Note
Recipe Notes
Note From Page 313 of Trim Healthy Mama:
- Chicken breasts can often be dry and unappealing. The crockpot changes all that. All moisture is retained, and the slow way of cooking helps marinate seasonings and flavors into the meat.
- Depending on the sauce accompanying the chicken breasts, they can be easily morphed into either E or S category since the breast of chicken is very lean.
- Frozen tenderloins can be placed in the crockpot in the morning and they’ll be soft and ready by evening. Regular sized chicken breast sizes should be thawed first or started on low the night before.
- You can leave the tenderloins or breasts whole. By evening, when they’re ready, they will easily pull apart into much smaller pieces by using a couple of forks.
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E Crockpot Chicken Ideas:
"Chicken breasts can still be succulent, even crockpot E-style by the addition of chicken broth and lots of high water content vegetables such as tomatoes and onions etc. Adding 1–2 Tbs cream, tahini, or coconut milk to the whole recipe (big enough for a large family to eat) once it is cooked, will not destroy the E factor, but give just enough fat to aid digestion and bring a
more rounded flavor to the palette. Or, you can add 1 Tbs coconut oil or butter.
Since the following ideas are E, if quinoa or brown rice are not included in the recipe itself, they will usually be a perfect accompaniment. Alternatively, you could dunk crusty whole grain sourdough bread into these E dishes. Remember, no more than 2 slices, even with E. Any of the following recipes that do not include a starch like quinoa, rice, or beans in the
actual recipe could be used for a Fuel Pull meal. However, Fuel Pull meals are the only ones where we like you to keep to smaller amounts of lean meat protein e.g. 3 oz. servings. The following Crockpot chicken ideas are designed to be eaten liberally, so it’s probably a better idea to simply enjoy them as E’s and not worry too much about portion size. There are plenty of other Fuel Pulls recipes that automatically keep your meat protein pulled back."
