Crock pot Chicken/Beef with Chile
Here is another one of my husband's delicious crock pot family recipes-modified to be primal:
Ingredients:
chicken and/or beef (stew or boneless meat) (total of 1-2 lbs=1/2 to 1 kilo)(grass-fed and finished, pasture-raised, organic, free range),
coconut oil (organic virgin),
almond flour,
1 onion,
5 to 12 fresh tomatoes (14-28 oz=400 to 800 grams can of diced tomatoes),
1 lb=1/2 kilo carrots (baby or normal),
optionally nopales (1 or 2 leaves) and/or celery (1/3-1/2 bunch),
2 bell peppers or equivalent amount of other kinds of peppers,
garlic cloves or diced garlic,
chicken broth (organic, free range) (less than 1 qt=1 liter),
fresh ground salt crystals (rock, mineral or sea) and black pepper,
optionally paprika, diced fresh herbs like sage, thyme, mint, basil, etc (a few branches of each)
green chile (half of 16 fl oz jar=8 fl oz=237 ml) (not the sauce),
peas (12oz=340 gr) (fresh or frozen, not dried)
Directions:
Ingredients:
chicken and/or beef (stew or boneless meat) (total of 1-2 lbs=1/2 to 1 kilo)(grass-fed and finished, pasture-raised, organic, free range),
coconut oil (organic virgin),
almond flour,
1 onion,
5 to 12 fresh tomatoes (14-28 oz=400 to 800 grams can of diced tomatoes),
1 lb=1/2 kilo carrots (baby or normal),
optionally nopales (1 or 2 leaves) and/or celery (1/3-1/2 bunch),
2 bell peppers or equivalent amount of other kinds of peppers,
garlic cloves or diced garlic,
chicken broth (organic, free range) (less than 1 qt=1 liter),
fresh ground salt crystals (rock, mineral or sea) and black pepper,
optionally paprika, diced fresh herbs like sage, thyme, mint, basil, etc (a few branches of each)
green chile (half of 16 fl oz jar=8 fl oz=237 ml) (not the sauce),
peas (12oz=340 gr) (fresh or frozen, not dried)
Directions:
- First thing to keep in mind is that when you use all of the suggested &optional amounts of meat and veggies a 6 quarts (5.7 liters) crock pot will be full to almost the top. Adjust your amounts accordingly if your crock pot is smaller.
- Chop the chicken and/or beef into bite sized pieces, if it's not already stew meat. Heat skillet with coconut oil to high, and brown the outside of the chicken/beef (don't cook all the way through). Then place into crock pot with the juice and oil.
- Sprinkle almond flour on the chicken/beef in the crock pot and mix to coat the meat. Do not put almond flour in the skillet since it burns too quickly.
- Dice onion, and sautee in pan with coconut oil on low or medium heat until it changes color. Then add to crock pot.
- If you're using fresh tomatoes, dice them small and add them to the onion to sautee/cook at the end, until they become soft and let their juice loose. If you're using a can, add the diced tomatoes with the water in the can directly to the crock pot.
- Chop carrots, skin and dice the nopale, dice the celery and add to pot. Watch out not to prick your fingers while skinning the nopale (cactus leaf) and never handle it carelessly.
- Dice the peppers (optionally stir fry them lightly), and add to pot.
- Peel the garlic cloves, but just leave the peeled cloves whole, and add to pot. If you're using diced garlic simply add a few teaspoons to your taste.
- Add chicken broth until everything is covered.
- Add salt and black pepper, and optionally the paprika, fresh herbs and stir them in, but try to not stir the bottom, so that the chicken/beef stays near the bottom.
- Set on LOW for a total of 7.5 to 8 hours.
- 1/2 to 1 hour before turning the crock pot off (or switching to warm setting), add 1/2 of the jar of green chile.
- If you have a bag of frozen peas, add it about 1/2-1 hour before turning it off.
