Keep your chicken easy and crazy good with this Crockpot Green Chile Chicken Recipe!
You’re going to love this Crockpot Green Chile Chicken Recipe for your taco night. It’s so easy to make, and tastes amazing in your tacos, burritos and even in your Chicken Enchiladas!
My friend Heather made this healthy Crock Pot Shredded Green Chile Chicken for us at a Taco Night at her house, and it was SO yummy!
When you’re on the hunt for an Easy Crockpot Recipe, it really doesn’t get much easier than this. Just 3 ingredients is all you’ll need!!
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Crockpot Green Chile Chicken Recipe
It It Okay To Marinate Chicken Before I Freeze It?
You sure can! This Green Chile Chicken recipe works great as a freezer meal you can prepare later. Simply add your ingredients to a freezer bag and place in the freezer.
When you are ready to prepare, remove it from the freezer and defrost in the refrigerator overnight. Then dump the contents of the freezer bag into your slow cooker and prepare using the instructions found below.
This recipe is an easy way to stock your freezer and score an easy meal planning win!
What Your Frugal Friends Are Saying About This Recipe:
Lacy writes: “Absolutely in love with this chicken.”
Charlotte writes: “Extremely easy, very tasty.”
Gloria writes: “Easy recipe and the chicken turned out really moist.”
Ashely writes: “Good! Added sour cream to make it creamier and served with lettuce wraps, salsa, cheese, and avocado.”
Crockpot Green Chile Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 pounds Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs fresh or thawed
- 4 ounces Green Chiles {1 can}
- 2 teaspoons Garlic Salt
- ½ cup Diced White Onions {Optional}
Instructions
- Cook chicken in crockpot on HIGH for 3 hours or LOW for 6 hours {covered}
- After 3 hours on HIGH or 6 hours on LOW, drain juices from crockpot
- Mix together green chiles and garlic salt. {and optional onions}
- Pour mixture over chicken, and cook on HIGH for 30 more minutes {covered}
- Remove chicken from crockpot, and shred with a fork.
- Serve with all the fixins for tacos, or wrapped up in burritos. YUM!
What You’ll Need To Make This Crockpot Green Chile Chicken Recipe:
5 – 6 quart Crock Pot
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Tammi Mitchell says
We LOVE this recipe! I usually drain and shred the chicken with my hand mixer after 3 hours, then I add the green chiles and a can of drained Rotel and garlic salt and let it cook for another 30 minutes. We make soft tacos topped with shredded lettuce and cheese. So yummy!!
Melissa Grace Atteberry says
Could I get a similar taste if I use garlic powder instead of salt? I like to limit sodium.
Linda Bell says
Melissa, Grace: Go ahead an cook the hole recipe then take it put it into individual portions then put them in the freezer
loretta baker says
I have a small crockpot as I’m only cooking for myself, and am having problems finding recipes for one or two people. I’ve tried cutting down the ingredients, but somehow the meals don’t come out as I expect them to. Are there cookbooks for small portion-size crockpots?
martha says
So do you mix the chilies and garlic salt with the drained juices? Is that what makes the sauce?! Or is the sauce just the chilies and the garlic salt?
Heidi says
Hi Martha ~ you’ll remove the drained juices, toss, and then add the chiles and garlic salt. Hope that helps!
DiAnn Thompson says
Can you use Chicken breast……
Heidi says
Hi DiAnn ~ yes… you could use chicken breasts as well. Hope that helps! 😉
Sarah says
I just have to say, this is my new favorite recipe. So divine! And so easy. Thanks for sharing!
Heidi says
You’re very welcome, Sarah! I’m so glad you like it!! 😉
Mike Guadagnolo says
I prepared this recipe at the fire station tonight only I substituted 4 fresh cloves of minced garlic for the garlic salt and used approx. 1 tsp of seasoned salt.
Served it on fresh flour tortillas,chopped baby spinach,three blend mexican cheese and black beans.
Thank you so much for the new recipe, the men really liked it!
Mike G.
Heidi says
I’m so glad you liked it, Mike! Great ideas on the substitutions, too!
Cindy says
Never cooked with a crockpot before, so I’m curious…I just put the chicken in the crockpot with nothing else, as the recipe states, for 3 hours? It won’t burn or stick to the pot??
Heidi says
Hi Cindy ~ yes… that’s correct. The juices from the chicken will quickly drain and the chicken will cook in that. After 3 hours I drain the juices and add in the sauce to the crockpot for another 30 minutes. That will allow for a thicker and tastier sauce. Hope that helps!! Have fun cooking with your crockpot! 😉
~ Heidi