Scout's Salsa Chicken
"This started as Tish's Sweet Salsa Dump Chicken recipe, but I had to modify for what I had on hand. My family loved it so much, I wanted to post it so I would remember what I did! :) I took the advice of some people responding to Tish's recipe, and added rice to it. My picky picky daughter cleaned her plate."
- Ready In:
- 5hrs 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 3 lbs chicken pieces, bone in
- 4 ounces apricot jam
- 12 ounces pineapple-mango salsa
- 1 (1 1/4 ounce) packet taco seasoning
- 1 cup long grain white rice
directions
- Put chicken, jam, salsa, and seasoning in crockpot and cook on low for 5 hours (my chicken was not completely thawed at this point).
- Put rice in crockpot and swirl and stir as best you can to mix the sauce and rice together around the chicken pieces (which should be almost falling apart at this point). Cook for 30 more minutes. This amount of liquid made perfect rice. There was just enough liquid unabsorbed by the rice to make the dish moist.
- Note: next time I wll probably use the whole 8 oz. of jam called for in the original recipe, and will bag and freeze everything (except the rice) together raw.
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Reviews
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This was a tasty, unique dinner. I could not find pineapple-mango salsa, so I had to settle for Paul Newman's Pineapple Salsa. I did use about 6 oz. of apricot jam, and I used 3 large boneless, skinless chicken breasts. The meat was tender and shredded up nicely. Thanks for posting your version of this flavorful meal. Made for My 3 Chefs 2009.
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I'm a stay at home mom with two lovely children, a wonderful husband, and 2 hungry roommates. I'm an artist by avocation, and am working to being one by vocation as well. * grins *
Just to let everyone know, after a half hour discussion about it, the boys (DH and Roommate) have settled on ratings meanings. I reserve the right to bump up or down a half star a recipe based on the actual recipe and how easy it was, etc. etc.
I have to admit, it's been a couple of years since I updated this text and in the meantime, my picky picky DD has flowered into a girl who enjoys California rolls, will give almost everything a try, and in general much less picky than the average 7 year old in this area.
DS, at 2 and a half, asks for salad for lunch and then demolishes it. He's a weirdo. :)
We try to be very honest and very descriptive with our reviews. And I fully appreciate the same from people reviewing my recipes. Not every family will like every recipe, and sometimes what you didn't like about a recipe, another family will love! :) I also try to be as nice and polite as possible in my reviews. I don't believe there is any reason not to. The only thing that really upsets me enough to be mean is when a poorly written recipe forces me to have to clean my kitchen.
***** - "Scout is not allowed to make this very often because it is highly addictive and will be inhaled on sight!" Dump Cakes, Sweet Salsa Chicken and Wasabi Peanuts are in this category.
**** - "This is wonderful and we want to see it again fairly often, a new family favorite."
*** - "This is good. We woud eat it again without any changes, but it's not our favorite."
** - "We did not like this very much, but we would eat it again if served it. It would be good if some changes were made. This was really not to our taste."
* - "We would eat this again only with a lot of condiments to mask the taste."
no stars - Means that I want to say something, but don't wish to post stars. This does not mean it is worse than a one star recipe!! :)
I will only post public recipes that I have in fact cooked, and that my family has enjoyed - at least 3 stars on the above scale.
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