Great Crockpot Chicken Recipe

Cooking is something people do daily in one way or the other. Whatever meal we are preparing, making a sandwich or baking a cookie, we need a recipe to follow. At times we may not follow a written recipe because the food is something that is very easy to prepare and we have it memorized, like making a sandwich, but in fact we are following a recipe even if it is one that is in our subconscious. People are also more health conscious these days. An increasing number of people are on a healthy diet and they prefer to cook healthy diet food. They know that a complete meal should consist of every food group including meat, carbohydrates, vegetables, fruits, and so no. The healthy diet pyramid shows you what should be in your ingredients.

Here is a wonderful crockpot recipe for a pasta dish main course that has ingredients from almost every food group. This pasta dish is chicken lasagna. The name might sound like a simple dish but it is exceptionally tasty. This recipe serves 4 people and takes about 5 hours to prepare. It is not hard to make but not that easy either. However, the resulting dish is so tasty that it is well worth the effort.

Chicken Lasagna Ingredients

You will need about 1 pound of cooked, shredded chicken breasts or more if you like more meat in your lasagna. Then, you need 1 large onion, finely chopped, 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped, 2 jars (17 oz.) of spaghetti sauce, 1 package (18 ounce) “no-cook” lasagna noodles, 1 package (9 oz.) of shredded mozzarella cheese, 1 container (9 oz.) of ricotta cheese, 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese, 1/4 cup milk, and 1 egg. Now, if you have a type of vegetables that you really like, such as eggplants, you may add some in your ingredients too but make sure they are finely chopped.

Let the process begin..

First you want to brown the onions, any other vegetables, and garlic in a non-stick pan. Then you can add the spaghetti sauce and mix everything together very well. In a separate bowl, you will mix the cheeses, milk and egg. It is best to grease the crockpot a little. Place 1/4 of the meat sauce mixture in the bottom of the crockpot then, 1/3 of a layer of noodles. You can break the noodles to fit your crockpot. After that, you can place roughly 1/3 of the cheese mixture on top. Then, repeat the process of: sauce, noodles, cheese for two more layers. Put the remaining meat sauce on top. Cook in the crockpot on low for about 6 hours until the noodles are soft.