Slow Cooker Chicken Stew

Submitted by senseicheryl

"This recipe was featured in an email from the Best of Spark People today. Their website is www.sparkrecipes.com and there are mostly healthy recipes posted there. "Start before work, ready to eat later.""

 

• Ready In: 4hrs 10mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Yields: 8 bowls of stew
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 2 lbs boneless skinless chicken
• 2 cups carrots, chopped
• 4 cups potatoes, chopped
• 1 cup celery, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• 8 ounces mushrooms
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon thyme
• 1 teaspoon oregano
• 1 teaspoon marjoram
• 1 teaspoon basil
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 4 cups water (I'm going to use chicken broth)
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice

directions

1. Chop chicken, carrots, potatoes, celery, and onion and put them in the slow cooker.
2. Pour the mushrooms on top.
3. Sprinkle on the seasonings, pour in the water and lemon juice, and put the lid on cooker.
4. Let cook on high for 4 hours, or on low for the day.
5. Dinner is ready when you walk in the door.

Reviews

[Pam8634]

I always hesitate trying an unreviewed recipe. -This SOUNDED like it would be good, but it was quite bland even given the spices. No doubt healthy as she said, but bland. It didn't even taste very "chickeny" - My husband told me to throw it away but I managed to salvage it into something tastier by adding a rope of sliced smoke sausage and two cans of Ranch Style beans to about half of the stew and heat it through. Since that seemed to do the trick, I did the same thing again with the other half of the stew.