Mexican Pork and Sweet Potato Stew

Ingredients

• 1 lb lean pork loin, cut into chunks
• 1 cup green chilies, diced
• ½ cups chicken broth
• 2 med sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed
• 1 med red onion, chopped
• 1 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes, fire roasted
• ½ tsp cumin
• ½ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp pepper
• 1 tbsp lime juice

Directions

1. Place all ingredients except lime in a gallon sized ziploc bag. Seal and place in freezer.
2. When ready to use thaw in fridge for 24 hours. Place thawed contents in crock-pot and cook on low for 6-7 hours. 
3. Add lime juice and stir well.

Easy Creamy Chicken

This recipe is very out of the norm for us-I've never used Cream of anything soup....but sometimes lack of time wins and I'll never be desperate enough to do fast food.

Ingredients

• 3-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• 8oz cream cheese, softened
• 1 can cream of chicken
• 1 dry packet of Italian Seasoning

Directions

1. Mix together softened cream cheese, cream of chicken and Italian Seasoning in a bowl. Once mixed, place in gallon sized ziplock bag with chicken. Seal and place in freezer.
2. When ready to use thaw in fridge overnight. Place thawed contents in crock-pot and cook on low for 4-6 hours.

Slow Cooker Greek Chicken

Ingredients

• 3-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• 3 Tbsp. Greek Rub (rosemary, dill cinnamon, oregano, s&p, garlic, thyme, nutmeg, basil)
• 1½ Tbsp. minced garlic
• 3 Tbsp. lemon juice
• 1.5 cups chicken stock/broth

Directions

1. Line slow cooker with liner or cooking spray.
2. Rub each chicken breast with Greek Rub to coat generously on each side.
3. Next, rub about ½ Tablespoon of garlic on each chicken breast.
4. Place chicken breast in slow cooker and drizzle lemon juice over the top.
5. Pour broth/stock over chicken. Cover with slow cooker lid.
6. Cook on LOW for 6-8 hours, or until cooked through and tender.

Tip: Serve with pitas, Greek salad, feta, and tzatiki

Slow Cooker Chinese Hacked Pork

Ingredients

• ¼ cup reduced-sodium soy sauce 
• ¼ cup honey
• 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
• 4 cloves garlic, chopped
• 2 tablespoons chopped ginger
• 1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder (optional)
• 2 pounds boneless center-cut pork roast
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• ¾ cup reduced-sodium chicken broth or water
• 2 scallions, thinly sliced

Directions

1. Coat slow cooker bowl with nonstick cooking spray. Place soy sauce, honey, hoisin, garlic, ginger, spice in crockpot and stir to mix. Place pork roast in and spoon some sauce over top. Cover and cook on HIGH for 4 hours or LOW for 6 hours.
2. Remove pork to a large baking dish and keep warm. Pour liquid from slow cooker into a saucepan. In a small bowl, stir cornstarch into broth. Bring liquid in saucepan to a boil and whisk in the broth mixture. Cook for 1 minute.
3. Shred pork into large pieces with two forks; stir in sauce.

Tip: Short on muscles, but have more time?  Add cornstarch mixture to crockpot and let cook for 30 minutes

Slow Cooker Apple Butter Pork Chops

Who doesn't love apples and pork together?


Ingredients

• 4 pork chops (bone-in or boneless)
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 3 medium apples (any kind), cored and chopped
• 1 cup apple butter
• 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/2 tbsp whole grain Dijon mustard
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1/2 cup apple juice or cider (or white wine)

Directions

1. In a small bowl, whisk together the apple butter, brown sugar, vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt, pepper, and apple juice. Set aside.
2. Place the apples and onions in the bottom of the Crock Pot. 
3. Add your pork chops on top and then pour the apple butter mixture all over this.
4. Cook on Low for 5-6 hours.

Tip: Serve with mashed potatoes.  Make a gravy by adding 1 Tbls cornstarch dissolved in hot water-dumping it into pot (after removing pork and apples) and letting ti cook on low 30 minutes.  Add pork back during last 10 minutes to get warmed again.