Slow Cooker Breaded Chicken in Tomato Sauce

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 

Crockpot Chicken Tikka Masala Pasta

Last nights dinner was easy to say the least. Chicken Tikka Masala with pasta made with the help of the slow cooker. A delicious spin on a classic and a great one for those who enjoy chicken and those who luv pasta. It was such a hit with the kidlets.

The recipe is from the Kitchen Magpie. For the recipe and to check out The Kitchen Magpie's lovely website click *HERE*. 

The only tweaking I did to this recipe was adding more chicken. About 3 cooked and diced chicken breasts and topped it with a bit of extra old cheddar cheese when serving. I really had to restrain myself because I wanted to add a dash or two of cumin. Other than the additional chicken and cheese I followed the recipe religiously. 

Have a good weekend everyone! 

Slow Cooker Curry Sausages

Last night I whipped this comforting dish up in the slow cooker. First you want to chop and place all the veggies (onion, carrots, broccoli, peppers, peas, corn, string beans) in the bottom of the slow cooker. Then add 1/2 cup of low sodium chicken or vegetable stock. Slice up the garlic beef and turkey sausages and place on top of the vegetables. Add a large can of diced tomatoes. Add about 3 tablespoons of curry paste. Give it a gentle stir. Set the slow cooker on high for about 4 hours. When the slow cooker has 1 hour remaining... take a large can of lentils and drain the excess liquid off. Add the drained lentils to the slow cooker. Give it another gentle stir. At this point I add some perogies, at my kidlets request. They like adding perogies to butter chicken and curries. When done serve over saffron rice. It was very delicious and had a lovely curry flavour.  

My son lent a hand in the kitchen and decided to grid some pepper using the mortar and pestle. He was quite pleased with his efforts until a pepper dust particle went into his eye. That did not deter his sister from getting in on the act. She then had to grind some pepper as well. Needless to say their efforts were greatly appreciated and now we have a nice bowl of ground pepper. - JW