Tell me your best slow cooker chicken breasts recipes please

[GreenTortoise]

I am struggling to think of a nice slow cooker chicken breast meal.

I've never slow cooker a chicken breast before (not sure why).

DP will not touch anything spicy. DS who is 2 will eat pretty much anything so could I have some ideas please? .

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I wouldn't cook chicken breasts in the slow cooker. That's probably why you can't think of a nice recipe. They don't need it and it probably doesn't do them any good.

If you have chicken breasts and want to do something easy with them, you could flatten them out and cover with tomato sauce and cheese. Or wrap in parma ham or similar.

Oh. Why wouldn't you?

I was thinking maybe a pulled chicken and assumed you'd put them in there.

I think you generally don't slow cook chicken breasts because they're a soft cut of meat, and they have no fat to keep them moist, so they'll just dry out. You could use chicken thighs, though, which do have more fat?

With things like cheap beef, you slow cook them to tenderize the chewy muscle, but chicken breast isn't chewy like that.

I wouldn't really cook them in the slow cooker either but a mild casserole mix would be nice. Carrots celery onion and sage type of thing.

Exactly. Slow cookers are best for tough fatty cuts of meat from parts of the animal that's worked harder during its life like shoulder or thigh.

If you want to make pulled chicken, I'd use thighs, leg portions or drumsticks.

I’ve done a bbq pulled chicken dish using chicken breasts it was yummy

Look on allrecipes , they have a lovely pulled chicken recipe on there using chicken breasts

Done lots of chicken casseroles in the slow cooker. Just add enough stock and veg to avoid them drying out. Add chorizo for extra flavour.

Chicken breasts are fine in the slow cooker, they just don't need very long - like 2/3 hours, which may defeat the point of using the slow cooker if you need something that can be left on all day. Here are some I've tried:

Chicken Risotto:
www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipes/slow-cooker-chicken-risotto-recipe/wn5b15bv

Hunter's chicken:
pinchofnom.com/recipes/hunters-chicken/