How To Make Slow Cooker Chile-Lime Chicken
Sink your teeth into this tender chile lime chicken! It’s has sweet and spicy notes from the honey and adobo sauce, then slow-cooked to juicy perfection.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 7ozchipotle peppers in adobo sauce,(1 can)
- 1cuplime juice
- 2tbsphoney
- 2tbspdried cilantro
- 2tbsponion powder
- 1tbspgarlic powder
- 3tspchili powder
- 2tspground black pepper
- 1tspcayenne pepper
- 1tspsalt
- 6chicken breasts,skinless boneless, or more to taste
Instructions
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Combine the chipotle peppers, adobo sauce, lime juice, honey, cilantro, onion powder, garlic powder, chili powder, black pepper, cayenne, and salt in a blender or food processor and puree, making sure the chipotle chiles are chopped very fine.
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Place a layer of chicken in a slow cooker, then cover with about ½ of the liquid mixture.
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Add in the remaining chicken, then pour the remaining liquid over top.
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Cover and cook on Low for 6 hours or on High for 3 hours, until the chicken is no longer pink in the center and juices run clear.
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Turn off the heat, then let rest for at least 15 minutes.
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Serve warm, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 357.55kcal
- Fat: 16.46g
- Saturated Fat: 4.70g
- Trans Fat: 0.18g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 6.72g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.59g
- Carbohydrates: 15.19g
- Fiber: 1.86g
- Sugar: 7.86g
- Protein: 37.58g
- Cholesterol: 111.36mg
- Sodium: 607.12mg
- Calcium: 46.19mg
- Potassium: 581.73mg
- Iron: 2.04mg
- Vitamin A: 266.95µg
- Vitamin C: 35.51mg
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