Rival Crock Pot Slow Cooker

Boneless Skinless Chicken- Crock Pot recipe?

I need a good recipe using the crock pot and boneless skinless chicken breast. I was intending on doing a favorite dish of mine which includes, the chicken, broccoli Cheddar rice, broccoli, cheese and cream of mushroom soup but I forgot the rice and im not driving 13 miles back to a store. So.. Now I am resulting to you guys for a good crock pot recipe for Boneless Skinless chicken breast. It can use Cream of Mushroom soup and broccoli or be different.

The best slow cooker for boneless skinless chicken breast is a rival slow cooker.

I found myself in need of a new slow cooker after the one I’d had/used for over a decade met its’ untimely demise (a boil-over that was completely my fault, resulting from overfilling). I was in the process of some extreme researching (including the $300 Williams-Sonoma exclusive All-Clad with the cast aluminum insert) when I stumbled across this one at our local Costco and picked it up on a whim (it IS Costco afterall, if I found it to be of inferior quality I was confident I’d have recourse with them as I know they stand behind what they sell).

First impression: it’s good looking. The brushed stainless steel and black look nice in my kitchen. And, let’s face it, since last one was over 10 years old (and looks weren’t much of a factor in the slow cooker market then), anything was an improvement over the painted chile peppers that encircled the old one. This one is actually sleek.

Then came a ‘true’ test: cooking in it! I used it for the first time last night, to make a chicken dish that *often* burned a bit around the edges in my old pot. It uses boneless/skinless chicken breasts and bread stuffing, so I tend to think it’s actually a bit prone to overcooking/burning. On more than one occasion in the old pot the chicken came out a bit dry and the stuffing burned to the edge of the pot. I’d just sort of come to expect it with this recipe. However, using the exact same recipe, heat level (high), and time (3 hours) as always – it came out PERFECTLY from this new crock pot last night! The chicken was still moist, none of the stuffing burned in the slightest, and none of it even dried/stuck to the edges so clean-up was a breeze.

So, I guess if this one runs “hot” then my old one was blistering, thus the relative difference makes this one perfect for me!

The only ‘downside’ I can see is its’ lack of *REAL* programmability. It has 4 heat/time options 4 hours on High, 6 hours on High, 8 hours on Low, and 10 hours on Low. After those preselected times/heats run it will automatically switch itself over to the Warm setting. As I said, my chicken recipe calls for 3 hours on High which is not an ‘option’ on this pot. It’s not a big deal to me since my ‘old’ pot had none of those options (just a manual dial). I set it for 4 hours on High and made sure I was around to switch it to Warm manually (easy to do) when those 3 hours were up (which is exactly what I’d have had to do with my ‘old’ pot). They do make a model with more specific programmability, should this be required.

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