Slow Cooker Rosemary Chicken Stew

Rosemary Chicken stew ingredients in the slow cooker

Well the weather here has certainly turned. Below zero temperatures and even some of the white stuff! The change in temperature had me craving something warm and comforting, so I made a nice big batch of chicken stew in the slow cooker last week. Chicken stew is full of flavour just cooking in its own stock, but I wanted to boost that even more by adding rosemary.

Chicken and rosemary are a classic flavour combination- so delicious together. The smell of the rosemary floating up the stairs, while it was cooking during the evening, was torture. I had to close all the doors to stop us from drooling! When we could finally eat it the following evening, it didn't disappoint and the rosemary flavour totally makes it, if I do say so myself! I'm sure that using the slow cooker really helps the depth of that flavour as well. I had made a great big batch, so the rest was swiftly split between plastic containers ready for lunches.

I used chicken breasts for the Rosemary Chicken Stew because I had some spare. You can see in the pictures that I cut them up into big chunks. It would have been much better to just cut them in half or quarters at the most, so that they don;t shred to easily. That's what I would recommend.  It would also be excellent if you made it with skinless thighs.

The sad thing about stew, is that it's not much of a looker when it's cooked!  You can't get many beauty shots of it. What I really need is some smellovision, so you could smell the deliciousness!

Put this one on your go-to list of winter dinners. It's fantastic for batch cooking ahead of time!

This recipe is syn free and Slimming World Friendly. If you are following a calories controlled diet such as My Fitness Pal, it's around 300 cals per portion (if using chicken breasts).


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Make Slow Cooker Rosemary Chicken Stew

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Ingredients
(Serves 4-5)

4 chicken breasts or 8 skinless chicken thighs
8 rashers of bacon (all fat trimmed off)
1 onion
4 medium carrots
4 medium potatoes
2 tsp rosemary
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 tbsp tomato puree
300ml chicken stock

Method

1. Peel and chop the potatoes and carrots into good size pieces so they don't disintegrate too much.
2. Chop the onion.
3. Cut the chicken breasts into quarters (if using thighs, leave whole).
4. Cut the bacon into large pieces.
5. Put the chicken, bacon and the veg in the slow cooker.
6. Add the garlic, rosemary and tomato puree.
7. Pour over the chicken stock and give everything a good stir.
8. Cook on low for 5-6 hours or until the chicken is almost shreddable, or medium for 4 hours.
9. Serve with some green veg.



Slow Cooker Rosemary Chicken Stew ingredients


                    

Slow Cooker Rosemary Chicken Stew cooked
I told you it wasn't glamourous looking when cooked!




Comments

  1. I love rosemary and chicken. Like you said, it is a classic combination.

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  2. Looks so easy! I'll be adding this to the weekly meal plan!

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    1. Great! Must admit I could eat it every week when the weather is cold.

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