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S Italian Style

This is an easy family favorite!! Give it a try soon!! This recipe is part of our S Crockpot Chicken Ideas. Recipe Ideas are found on Pages 314-315 in the Original Trim Healthy Mama book!

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Servings: 6
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This recipe is part of our S Crockpot Chicken Ideas. Recipe Ideas are found on Pages 314-315 in the Original Trim Healthy Mama book!

Ingredients
  • chicken (any cut)
  • 1 cup Italian dressing (1-2 cups, homemade or plan approved-bought)
  • 1 cup chicken broth (1-2 cups)
  • sour cream (optional)
  • 0% Greek yogurt (optional)
  • 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese (1/4-1/2 cup)
Instructions
  1. 1
    Along with chicken, add 1–2 cups of homemade Italian style dressing and 1–2 cups of chicken broth. Or, use a healthy store-bought jar of Italian style dressing along with the chicken broth. Try to purchase brands that don’t use soybean or canola oils.
  2. 2
    But, hey, if you don’t care about soy bean oil in your diet now and then, Ken’s Italian dressing works great because it has only 1 carb. Optimally, you could make your homemade Italian style dressing with coconut oil as you won’t be eating this dish cold and don’t have to worry about the oil firming up.
  3. 3
    If you want to make your own, olive oil based dressings would be okay as heat temperatures remain lower with a crockpot.
  4. 4
    At the end of the day, you can mix in some sour cream or Greek yogurt and ¼–½ cup of Parmesan cheese. This dish is great with any of our S approved noodle options.
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.

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.

Read it online: https://trimhealthymama.com/recipe/s-italian-style-s/