Slow cooker chicken fajita stew

This slow cooker chicken fajita stew is a delicious Tex-Mex meal for a busy weeknight. This recipe comes from guest blogger Chantal at Nerdy Mamma.

Over at NerdyMamma.com, you can see that I’m a crazy-happy cooker of all things Tex-Mex. Mostly because I’m a crazy-happy eater of the same, but that’s beside the point.

What’s so amusing to me about this–and makes it worth mentioning–is that my husband didn’t start out that way like I did. I was born craving nachos. He was born craving shrimp. So, we’ve come to an agreement–we eat Tex-Mex constantly. Heh.

For example, our new favorite go-to easy weeknight meal: Slow Cooker Chicken Fajita Stew. One pot meal with less than 10 minutes of prep. Awesomeness in a crockpot. Just how I like it.

I love my compromise with my husband. He gets to broaden his horizons and I get to eat what I love. Not sure that’s REALLY much of a compromise, but it works, right?

Chicken fajita stew recipe

Ingredients

• 2-3 lbs chicken breast or thigh (I use a mixture of frozen because that’s how I roll)
• 1 bell pepper
• 1 medium yellow or white onion
• 1 tablespoon fajita seasoning or Nature’s Seasoning
• 1 cup sliced mushrooms (I like canned, but fresh are good, too)
• 1-2 zucchini squash
• 2 cups chicken broth

Instructions

1. Place chicken in the slow cooker and cover with all of the broth.
2. Go ahead and turn your slow cooker on low to get things warm while you slice the bell pepper and onion thinly.
3. Add bell pepper, onion, mushrooms and seasoning to the crock pot.
4. Allow the slow cooker to run all day (8 hours) on low or a half day (4 hours) on high.
5. Slice zucchini squash in long lengths and add to the slow cooker.
6. Allow the stew to continue to cook while you remove the chicken, place it in a mixing bowl, and, using a hand mixer, shred the chicken.
7. Put the chicken back in the slow cooker and serve!

So, what do you think? Is this chicken fajita stew something you’d like to make? We love it. And there’s a lot more where that came from over on NerdyMamma.com. Come check us out!

Slow cooker chicken fajita stew

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Ingredients

• 2-3 lbs chicken breast or thigh
• 1 bell pepper
• 1 medium yellow or white onion
• 1 tblspn fajita seasoning or Nature's Seasoning
• 1 cup sliced mushrooms
• 1-2 zucchini squash
• 2 cups chicken broth

Instructions

1. Place chicken in the slow cooker and cover with all of the broth.
2. Go ahead and turn your slow cooker on low to get things warm while you slice the bell pepper and onion thinly.
3. Add bell pepper, onion, mushrooms and seasoning to the crockpot.
4. Allow the slow cooker to run all day (8 hours) on low or a half day (4 hours) on high.
5. Slice zucchini squash in long lengths and add to the slow cooker.
6. Allow the stew to continue to cook while you remove the chicken, place it in a mixing bowl, and, using a hand mixer, shred the chicken.
7. Put the chicken back in the crock pot and serve!

 

 

Chantal is a mom on a mission of sharing the fun side of being a parent with nerdy tendencies through crafts, kid’s activities, good food, and ridiculously silly jokes.  She blogs at NerdyMamma.com and you can find her on Facebook and Pinterest.