Slow Cooker Salsa Verde Chicken

Salsa Verde Chicken is as easy to make as it is delicious. This slow cooker recipe, with just four ingredients, cooks itself in your crock pot. Our chicken dinner recipe is so delicious served over yellow rice.

Slow Cooker Chicken Recipe

As the holidays come to an end, here in the northeast we are beginning to think about the impending cold weather of the winter months ahead.

And let me tell you, baby it's cold outside already! 

To me winter weather means comfort food that sticks to your ribs and warms your bones.

Salsa Verde Chicken will soon become your new go-to favorite comfort food that's as easy to make as it is delicious.

But honestly, I make this recipe all year long, not just in the winter months.

Making a crock pot recipe in the warmer months keeps your kitchen cool, so any time is a good time for our chicken salsa recipe!

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Our slow cooker recipe only takes four ingredients, chicken thighs, taco seasoning and salsa verde, simmered in a slow cooker, then top with fresh cilantro.

Serve over hot rice and salsa verde chicken and rice couldn't be easier to make or taste more delicious.

And the choice is yours, yellow rice, white rice or brown rice. I actually love those packets of yellow rice that come with all the seasonings in them already.

This easy chicken recipe will taste fabulous served over quinoa or orzo pasta too!

A drizzle of fresh lime juice will add fresh flavor. So be sure to serve lime wedges on the side.

Pollo verde is another name for this delicious chicken with salsa recipe.

However, salsa verde is not the only salsa you can make this recipe with, although I do love Trader Joe's salsa verde.

Prefer a traditional red salsa? Go ahead and change it up because our chicken thighs recipe will be just as delicious and call it chicken crock pot salsa, no verde!

An easy dinner recipe, our salsa chicken recipe will soon become your new go-to favorite comfort food dinner! 

I'm thinking it's time to turn on the slow cooker and fill  your home with "Swirls of Flavor" as Salsa Verde Chicken simmers for tonight's easy dinner recipe!

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What is salsa verde?

Salsa verde, similar to the red tomato-based salsa that we all know and love, is made with tomatillos instead of tomatoes, giving it it's green color.

The tomatillo, also known as a husk tomato and native to Mexico and Central America, looks like a small green tomato covered in a husk.

Tomatillos also provide Vitamin C, iron, calcium and magnesium.

Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips

• Don't have fresh cilantro? No worries, our chicken recipe will taste just as delicious without it!
• Don't have an envelope of taco seasoning? Make Homemade Taco Seasoning with just a few basic spices in your cabinet!
• Serve with your favorite toppings, such as sour cream, shredded cheese and chopped tomato
• Serve with lime wedges

Substitutions

• Don't have chicken thighs? Feel free to use chicken breasts!
• You can substitute parsley for the cilantro
• Substitute traditional red salsa for the salsa verde

What to serve with salsa chicken

• yellow rice
• white rice
• brown rice
• quinoa
• orzo
• cauliflower rice

How to serve crock pot salsa verde chicken

This recipe is so versatile. Here are a few suggestions on how you can serve it, but you can just let your imagination run wild! Serve it:

• over your favorite rice
• as a taco filling
• as a topping for pasta
• in a wrap with shredded cheese and lettuce 
• as a topping for a salsa bowl
• as an enchilada filling

Equipment

• slow cooker

Easy Chicken Recipes

• Chicken Pot Pie with Refrigerated Biscuits
• Pineapple Chicken Chili
• Mexican Chicken Casserole
• Crockpot Chicken Tacos from Jersey Girl Cooks
• Chicken Carnitas from Grumpy’s Honeybunch

Ingredients for chicken with salsa

• boneless skinless chicken thighs
• taco seasoning mix
• salsa verde
• cilantro
• yellow or white rice, serving suggestion

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