This recipe is a delicious one with minimal effort. You can use what ever herbs and seasonings you have on hand. No measuring required just use your flavour and cooking instincts to guide you... surprisingly sometimes these thrown together recipes come together really well. Serve with whatever side, you wish. I was feeling particularly autumnal and roasted some carrots, leeks, potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Slow Cooker Breaded Chicken in Tomato Sauce
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5 boneless skinless chicken breasts
breadcrumbs, ready made or homemade
herbs and seasonings, fresh or dried, of your choice
salt and pepper
tomato passata sauce
1 plastic zip bag
In a large plastic zip bag place a generous amount of breadcrumbs, herbs, seasonings and salt and pepper. Add the chicken breast. Seal the bag tightly and shake about or rub the chicken breast to make sure they are well coated.
Pour some of the tomato passata sauce into the bottom of a large slow cooker insert; making sure that the bottom is well covered. Arrange the seasoned breaded chicken breasts on top of the passata sauce. Drizzle a bit more over the top of each chicken breasts. Place the lid on the slow cooker and cook on high for 4 - 4 1/2 hours.
Notes: the breadcrumbs I used were ready made ones. No measurements were included because I literally just pulled the ingredients together and eyeballed what I needed. I would estimate that the breadcrumbs, herbs and seasonings together measured about... 1 cup to 1 1/4 cup, for 5 chicken breasts, the breadcrumbs taking up most of the measurement but then again it's preference on how seasoned, how breaded and herby you would like the chicken to be. There was a bit of breadcrumb mixture leftover, after the chicken was coated, you could throw it away or do what I did just sprinkle the remaining loosely over top of the well coated chicken breasts before drizzling more passata sauce over top.
Hope everyone had a great weekend! Seems as though the cooler temperatures have got the better of me; I have a cold. So trying to muddle through everything in hopes I will be feeling better soon. -JD