Meals · Roasts, ribs & slow cooker
Paleo slow-cooker salsa chicken
Chicken breasts, a jar of salsa, peppers and warm spices left alone until the chicken pulls apart into a juicy, tangy filling, with sweet potatoes steaming on top in the same pot. Finish it with lime, cilantro and slices of avocado. The easiest dinner you will cook all week.
- Time
- 345 min (15 prep + 330 cook)
- Servings
- 6
- Per serving
- 397 kcal
- Protein
- 39 g
Ingredients
Spices
- 2 tsp chili powder, mild
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 2 lb chicken breast
- 2 cups salsa, mild or medium, chunky; check the label for no added sugar
- 2 red bell peppers, sliced
- 1 medium onion, sliced
- 6 small (about 150 g each) sweet potatoes, scrubbed; the weight is peeled flesh
- 1 tbsp lime juice
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 small avocados, sliced
Steps
- Stir the chili powder, cumin, garlic powder and salt together, then rub the mix over the chicken and lay it in a slow cooker of at least 6 liters (6 quarts).
- Add the peppers and onion and pour the salsa over everything.
- Prick the sweet potatoes with a fork, wrap them loosely in foil and set them on top.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 5–6 hours or HIGH for 3–4, until the chicken is 165°F in the thickest part and a knife slides into the sweet potatoes.
- Lift out the sweet potatoes. Shred the chicken in the pot with two forks and stir in the lime juice and cilantro. Halve the sweet potatoes, spoon the chicken and plenty of its sauce over them and top with avocado. The chicken and sweet potatoes keep 4 days in the fridge and the chicken freezes for 3 months; slice the avocado fresh.
Good to know
Can I use chicken thighs?
Yes, thighs stay juicier and work with the same timing, at about 65 instead of 72.
Can I serve it some other way?
It is just as good on cauliflower rice, in lettuce cups or on a big salad. Add a spoon of pickled jalapeños or hot sauce at the table for heat.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 85
- Protein
- (41%)
- 8 g
- Fat
- (23%)
- 2 g
- Carbohydrates
- (35%)
- 8 g
- of which sugar
- 3 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 210 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. General guidance, not medical advice. Talk to your prescriber. How
As written, 2380 kcal goes into the pot and 2893 g of ingredients comes out as about 2810 g of food: 85 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.