monday recipes

I think I will start a weekly recipe post! Monday is perfect, it falls after that long lazy weekend we just had. The last thing on our minds is what's for dinner the rest of the week. 

Originally, I wanted to share what I was cooking on Monday, but I can't promise it that. We might have cereal, order pizza or Friday's leftovers. I'm trying to keep it real here. 

But here is a super easy, delicious crock pot meal I made last week. 

Real quick, I want to add that I just threw some things together and can't promise it's something you never heard of. You've been warned, you may have made this yesterday.

So ingredients:

whole chicken (yep the whole thing - and you get to clean out it's inside) 

1 can sweet corn

1 can black beans

1 can rotel (used mild)

1 package of taco seasoning (used mild)

I think this cost me less than $10. I don't use fancy vegetables.

My recommendation is to buy your chicken and cook that next day. I froze mine, waited, then was annoyed by all the extra work I had to do. Lazy Crocker here. That and I have my own zoo.

Clean the chicken out and place in the crock pot.

Add can corn, undrained.

Add can black beans, drained.

Mix the can of rotel and taco seasoning. I did this to avoid clumping with the taco seasoning. 

Add mixture to the rest of the goodies. 

Then cook!! My crock pot goes by hours, so I can't confirm on a temperature. I put it in at 8am and it was ready by 4pm. I turned to warm and then removed the chicken. Now as I'm typing this I'm realizing a few things, you can decide on your own though. 

I had to break off all the meat and then add it back to the crock pot. Threw out the bones and such. Now, if you wanted, maybe cook the chicken, pull off meat and then add other ingredients. 

I added a cup of water at the end, I liked it soupy. Totally forgot, but try and find those tortilla strips to add, I'm sure that would have been delicious. 

Recap:

chicken

corn

black beans

rotel

taco seasoning

cup of water

crock pot

8 hrs

{Sorry the quality is lacking in the final product. I will tell you it's delicious though and reheats nicely.}

Hope you enjoy and your family thinks you slaved all day creating this delicious homemade chicken soup!!