Easy Crockpot Fiesta Chicken
This easy Crockpot Fiesta Chicken is an easy is an easy delicious Mexican meal with only 5 ingredients! Great for tacos, burritos, salads, or over rice. This meal is made with chicken breast, cream cheese, black beans, and corn that can be thrown in the slow cooker and forgotten about.
CROCKPOT FIESTA CHICKEN
Cinco De Mayo is around the corner and for those of you who want an awesome Mexican meal I really love my copycat Cafe Rio meal. I recently made it for Bunko and everyone asked for the recipe…but once I emailed them the recipe a lot of them said, “Whoa I had no idea this meal was so much work!”
I agree it is a lot of chopping and blending but it’s a meal that I have made so many times it’s second nature to me now.
So here is another meal for my friends who don’t like to spend a lot of time in the kitchen and is still really good! This is filed under my Super Easy Recipes that I send to my friends just starting out cooking or newly married.
I realize it’s not a looker but the taste makes up for it. I literally timed myself and I had the whole meal ready to go in three minutes…and I was taking my time. You can even throw in the chicken frozen.
There are only five ingredients: chicken, corn, black beans, salsa, and cream cheese. I served this with leftover Cilantro Lime Rice but it’s great rolled up in a tortilla too.
Just this past Sunday my whole family was in the car waiting for me to go to church as I was throwing the last couple of ingredients in the crockpot for this meal. As I opened the jar of salsa it EXPLODED all over me.
It was in my hair, on my neck…and necklace, and all over my white blouse. I hurried and changed clothes, wiped my neck and tried to carefully wash it out of my hair without completely ruining my curled locks.
Satisfied with my quick clean up I jumped into the passenger side of the car and John took a whiff and said, “Umm…did you just eat chips and salsa?”
Great. I guess my clean up wasn’t good enough and we were already too far on our way to turn back. Nothing like having people wonder why they are craving Mexican food while sitting next to you in church. Awesome.
OTHER CROCKPOT CHICKEN RECIPES
- Chicken Taco Soup
- Crockpot Italian Chicken
- Buffalo Chicken Chili
- Slow Cooker Chicken Caesar Sandwiches
- Slow Cooker Chicken Parmesan
- Slow Cooker Cashew Chicken
- Mom’s White Chicken Chili
- Slow Cooker Tomato Basil Chicken
Easy Crockpot Fiesta Chicken
This easy Crockpot Fiesta Chicken is an easy is an easy delicious meal with only 5 ingredients! Great for tacos, burritos, salads, or over rice. This meal is made with chicken breast, cream cheese, black beans, and corn that can be thrown in the slow cooker and forgotten about.
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts, frozen or thawed
- 1 (15 1/2 ounce can) black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 (15 ounce can) corn, drained
- 1 (15 ounce) jar of your favorite salsa
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
Instructions
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Take 4 frozen, yes, frozen (or thawed), boneless chicken breasts put into crock pot. Add 1 can of black beans, drained, 1 jar of salsa, 1 can of corn drained. Keep in crock pot on low for about 4-5 hours or until chicken is cooked. Once it is cooked, take it out and shred it. Return shredded chicken to the crockpot.
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Add 1 package of cream cheese (just throw it on top!) and let sit for about 1/2 hour. It may look at little strange at this point. Don't worry. Stir in the cream cheese.
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Serve over rice or in warm flour tortillas.
Recipe Notes
Source: my friend Kim
i’ve made this a few times and it’s seriously my favorite meal. i love it! so easy too.
I added the the cream cheese at the beginning on accident and it turned out wonderful. So if you are not home for the last 1/2 hour than you can do this way also.
Love this. Great recipe!
I have this cooking in our crockpot now, and it smells delicious! We were working outside earlier, and every time I’d walk in the house, the smell was so yummy! Can’t wait to try it.
made this tonight using fat free cream cheese. it was awesome, hearty and incredibly easy! my bf loved it. thanks for the recipe. i’ll definitely be making it again.
We are making this dish tonight along with the rice. It smells wonderful! Thanks for your super fun recipes.. love them!
@Anonymous,
You can cook this on high for 3-4 hours depending on how fast your slow cooker cooks.
Can this be cooked on high in a few hours? Looks yummy!
Hi! I am not much of a cook and made a decision in my mind that I will learn. I ran across your blog and realized how easy and simple your recipes were to follow. I am so excited because this was my first crockpot meal and it turned out awesome!!! I am so thankful for this recipe. It tasted really good too.
Thanks for the easy recipe! By the way, I love reading all your posts… that IS a compliment! lol I love how you are so relatable, and don’t hide it! 🙂 Makes me feel like I’m hearing from my sister or an old friend, one of those few people that aren’t afraid to be honest and laugh at themselves! It brightens my day, so thanks! 🙂
@amandachap,
I don’t see why you couldn’t use thighs. Sounds yummy!
Hey ladies may I use chicken thighs instead of breasts?!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this recipe! It is so easy and so delicious. Huge hit with my whole family of 7.
Christy, made this for dinner tonight and LOVED it! Thanks for the yummy recipe. My meal plans are set for the rest of the month and they are all recipes I’ve wanted to try out from your site!
I think this would work with pork but might take a little longer to cook!
Love this tasty dish but was wondering would it maybe work for pork as well?
@Anonymous,
I’ve never tried enchiladas but I would imagine they would be good. We often wrap them up in a tortilla as a burrito!
Would this be a good filling for enchiladas? Wrapped up with enchilada sauce over the top?
@Anonymous,
I actually think you could keep the cooking time the same if you double up. The crockpot usually takes care of making sure everything cooks evenly.
Thanks,
Christy
Hello Christi,
If I want to double up on this recipe, how much longer shall I cook the chicken?
Please advise. Thanks!
Thanks for this recipe! It was delicious!!!
I posted this on my blog:
http://ashleyscrafts.blogspot.com/2010/09/crockpot-fiesta-chicken.html
Tried this with the Cilantro Lime Rice. Cafe Rio’s was always too Lime-y so I was able to tame it down. The Fiesta Chicken was great warmed up over a salad the next day!
We loved this over your Cafe Rio Cilantro Lime Rice.
That totally made me laugh! Too funny! Thanks for the great recipe, I’ll be trying it soon!
Thanks Christy for the dish. I made it tonight and actually didn’t ruin it. So easy someone who has actually screwed up frozen pizza (I put it in the oven upside down) could get this recipe right! My husband thanks you.
Thank you, thank you for all of your yummy recipes. I LOVE your blog and come here often to find something yummy for dinner. Your food is always so pretty and your photography looks great. Keep you the good work!! Again, thanks for sharing your delicious meals, they are AMAZING!!
I’m a big fan of crockpot meals lately….I think we’ll try this one for dinner tonight!!
Mexican restaurants may have been crowded after church that Sunday! 🙂 The recipe sounds yummy!!
this looks so yummy… and i love the story.
i can just picture JD saying something like that… of course making me feel really self conscious the entire 3 hours of church! nice husbands… nice!
This sounds so easy and delicious! Can’t wait to make it 🙂