Recipe: Perfect Crock Pot Skinny Chicken Jambalaya

Crock Pot Skinny Chicken Jambalaya. Healthy Crock Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup. Plus, this makes a lot of jambalaya. My crock pot was pretty full at the end of the cooking.

This is a tasty slow cooker jambalaya, a combination of chicken, sausage, rice, tomatoes, and shrimp. The cooked rice and shrimp are added just before the dish has finished cooking. Because it contains tomatoes, this is more of a Creole jambalaya than Cajun. You can cook Crock Pot Skinny Chicken Jambalaya using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Crock Pot Skinny Chicken Jambalaya

1. Prepare 2 of chicken breasts, sliced into strips.
2. Prepare 8 of smoked turkey sausages, halved lengthwise and cut into 1/2 inch slices (you can find these in the aisle with the hot dogs).
3. Prepare 2 of bell peppers, sliced into strips.
4. You need 1 of onion, sliced.
5. You need 1 of (14.5-oz) can petite diced tomatoes.
6. You need 2 cup of water.
7. You need 8 oz of package jambalaya rice mix.

The rice is cooked separately to ensure it is. There are countless slow cooker jambalaya recipes across our wonderful The heart of this recipe is the spiced broth! I like to start by blooming spices in chicken broth. I pour the broth in the bottom of my Crock-Pot, then pile.

Crock Pot Skinny Chicken Jambalaya step by step

1. Place your sliced peppers and onions in the bottom of slow cooker. Top with chicken strips and turkey sausage..
2. Add water and undrained tomatoes..
3. Cover and cook on low heat setting for 5-6 hours or high heat setting for 2 1/2 to 3 hours..
4. Stir in rice. (If using low heat setting, turn it to high at this point) Cover and cook about 45 minutes or until rice is tender and most of the liquid absorbed..
5. Dish up in bowls and ENJOY!.

Shrimp and chicken simmer with classic jambalaya ingredients in this easy slow cooker meal. I also would make the rice separate and pour the jambalaya over it. I tried adding the rice to the crock pot and it absorbed all of the liquid too quickly not allowing the rice to fully cook. Layer chicken pieces and sausage slices in bottom of crock pot. Peel and devein shrimp; keep refrigerated until ready to add.