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Give me directions for how to cooking chicken in the crockpot
I know a few of you make a batch of chicken in the crockpot to use in recipes later.
How many breasts do you do at a time and for how long? Just salt and pepper or do you use chicken broth too?
Re: Give me directions for how to cooking chicken in the crockpot
I don't have the answer to your post but I did just add a new bbq chicken recipe in my cookbook. Just click on my cookbook below and it will be the first one that comes up.
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I will cook plain chicken breasts in the crockpot practically every weekend. I always use defrosted ones - I've never tried frozen - and cook them on high for 3 hours. They're so easy to shred afterwards!
I do not add anything extra, not even chicken broth. They cook in their own juices and don't dry out. I don't think broth would hurt the process though.
And I don't season them with anything because I typically am planning to use them in recipes that I will add seasoning to when I assemble it.
Ive done as few as 3 and as many as 7-8 at once and it's all worked the same.
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Whenever I cook them I always add water bc I am afraid of them burning which is dumb I know (bc once in a while I'll cook a whole chicken in the crockpot and I don't add water to that and its fine.) I've done them frozen and defrosted and both ways are fine, it just takes a bit longer if they're frozen .
How many I cook depends on what I want. If I'm using the chicken for something and then going to freeze the leftovers, I'll double typically (so if I need 2 chicken breasts I'll cook 4.) I really only do this when I'm going to shred chicken, so then I freeze it and mark how many cups it is and freeze it that way (I usually freeze it in 2-cup 'installments').
ETA: to clarify and properly answer your questions - if they're frozen I tend to cook for 4 hours, if defrosted only 2 or 3 on high. I may add salt and pepper but no other seasonings.
I do pulled BBQ chicken all the time. I honestly don't think I've ever paid attention to the time because I usually throw it in there in the am and it's ready by dinner while I go about doing stuff around the house. We have a really big crock pot so I'm generally cooking 5-8 chicken breasts and feeding either a crowd during football season or saving the leftovers in the freezer.
I put a 1/2 can of coke (diet/regular/caff free...doesn't matter...whatever I have) in the bottom, add some BBQ dry rub, a clove of garlic, salt and pepper, sometimes cyanne or whatever other spices I feel like, and then just cook on high for probably 4-6 hours. 1/2 way through I drain half of the liquid and start gently pulling the chicken apart but not all the way. At this point I also add BBQ sauce. We generally make our own but if you're not in to that, then add 1/2 bottle and mix it all up. I check on it probably every hour or so and keep gently pulling. The longer it cooks, the easier it is to shred. I wouldn't cook it longer than 8 hours and that would probably be for 8-10 chicken breasts.
There are tons more recipes out there too for cooking chicken in the crockpot. I'm personally not a fan of putting a whole roaster in there. There's just something about the carcus and bones and skin that turn me off plus, they're greasy. But to each his own! You can also cook one-pot meals with pasta and veggies and stuff. Again, I don't do this probably because nothing's ever sounded good to me.