Debbie’s Slow Cooker Chicken Fajitas & Book Giveaway! {Powernap}
Today my friend Debbie Koenig of Words to Eat By is here to share a great Powernap recipe for parents and tell us about her great new cookbook, Parents Need to Eat Too!
I love the slow cooker nearly as much as Kelsey does. Around here we call it the New Mom’s Best Friend—after my son was born my parents foisted one upon me wisely gave me one. In fact, the second post-baby recipe I shared on my blog was Slow Cooker Ratatouille. The really telling part: I didn’t have a chance to post that until Harry was seven months old.
This new mom gig turned out to be way tougher than I expected, and although I’m a food writer it took a while to regain my kitchen equilibrium. Until I did, my husband and I bought Clif Bars in bulk and ate egg sandwiches until we clucked. That crazy time, the first year of my son’s life, inspired my new cookbook, Parents Need to Eat Too.
So there’s a chapter on meals you can eat with one hand, and another on nap-friendly recipes (slightly different from Kelsey’s take on it! Mine break down into stages, to do during multiple newborn naps). A chapter using galactagogues—foods that support breastfeeding, and another entirely based on shelf-stable ingredients, so you don’t have to stress about shopping for fresh stuff. And every recipe ends with instructions for using what you’ve cooked as baby food.
Of course, there’s also a chapter on the New Mom’s Best Friend. This recipe, for Slow Cooker Chicken Fajitas, isn’t in the book—consider it a bonus. It’s not 100% authentic, since you won’t have the sizzly char of a restaurant fajita, but all the other flavors are there. When you’ve got a baby in the house (or when you’re super-busy), it suits my motto: Authenticity, shmauthenticity. We just want to eat!
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Recipe
Slow Cooker Chicken Fajitas
Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients
| 4 | boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 6 ounces each), cut into strips |
| 2 or 3 | large bell peppers, your choice of color, cut into thin strips |
| 1 | large onion, halved and thinly sliced vertically |
| 3 | cloves garlic, chopped |
| 2 | tablespoons olive oil |
| ¼ | cup low-sodium chicken broth |
| 3 | tablespoons lime juice (from 1 or 2 limes) |
| 1 | teaspoon ground cumin |
| 1 | teaspoon dried oregano |
| ½ | teaspoon salt (use a little more if the broth is completely unsalted) |
Whole grain tortillas, diced avocado, sour cream, and salsa, for serving
Instructions
- Put the chicken into the insert of your slow cooker. In a mixing bowl, toss together the bell peppers, onion, garlic, and oil, and place on top of the chicken.
- Stir together the broth, lime juice, cumin, oregano, and salt, and pour over all. Cover and cook 4 to 6 hours on LOW, 2 to 3 hours on HIGH.
- Serve with tortillas, avocado, sour cream, and salsa.
Naptime Notes
Naptime Recipe Serving ideas
MAKE BABY FOOD: If you’re on purees, you can whir the chicken or the peppers with a splash of the sauce, or the entire thing. Mash up some avocado, too. Everything in the recipe works well as finger food.
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I am a newsletter subscriber but do not participate in Facebook for personal reasons. I love the idea behind this book! I need it! WIth an almost two-year-old and a four-year-old and one on the way, I need these kinds of recipes. I remember asking my neighbor how I was going to be able to cook when my little newborn daughter came home. She said you won’t for the first few months, and I gasped! She gave me her fastest morning meal recipe, basically an egg mcMuffin with the egg cooked on HIGH for 35-40 seconds in a coffee mug and placed over a toated English muffin with a thin slice of mild cheddar or Kraft singles
Peanut butter and jam sandwiches for on the run!
This cookbook would be perfect for our son in college…
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My favorite one-handed meal on the run is a bean, cheese and rice burrito.
Favorite one handed meal on the run would probably be a toasted fried egg and veggie sandwich!
My favorite meal on the run is a hummus and veggie wrap. Quick, easy, healthy but most importantly tasty!
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