Low Fat Chicken Stew Recipes

LOW FAT CROCK POT CHICKEN AND VEGETABLE STEW

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Coat bottom and sides of a 4-quart slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray .
• Place vegetables in the pot.
• Trim chicken thighs of excess fat and cut into pieces.
• Add chicken to the pot, followed by herbs, crushed tomatoes, and chicken broth.
• Cover and cook on low for 7 to 9 hours.
• Serve and enjoy!

CHICKEN STEW

Steps:

• In a 5-qt. slow cooker, combine the first 11 ingredients; cover and cook on high for 4 hours. , Mix water and cornstarch until smooth; stir into stew. Cook, covered, 30 minutes more or until the vegetables are tender. If desired, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

LOW-FAT CHICKEN STEW

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large heavy bottomed saucepan over medium heat.
• Add the celery, carrot, and onion. Saute the vegetables until the onion is translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
• Stir in the tomatoes with their juices, chicken broth, basil, tomato paste, bay leaf, and thyme.
• Add the chicken breasts.
• Bring the cooking liquid to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer gently uncovered until the chicken is almost cooked through, turning the chicken breasts over and stirring the mixture occasionally, about 25 minutes.
• Transfer the chicken breasts to a cutting board and cool for 5 minutes.
• Discard the bay leaf.
• Add the kidney beans to the pot and simmer until the liquid has reduced into a stew consistency, about 10 minutes.
• Discard the skin and bones from the chicken breasts.
• Shred the chicken into bite- size pieces. Return the chicken meat to the stew. Bring the stew just to a simmer.
• Season with salt and pepper, to taste.

LOW FAT CROCKPOT CHICKEN AND MUSHROOM STEW

Steps:

• Coat inside of 3-4 quart slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray. Place onion, carrots, celery, garlic and mushrooms in crockpot. Add chicken. Sprinkle with herbs. Add wine. Combine tomato paste and chicken broth, then add to crockpot. Cook on low for 6 hours. Half an hour before the end of cooking, you can add a cornstarch slurry (1 tbsp cornstarch to 1/4 cup of water or slightly cooled cooking liquid) to thicken the sauce.

CROCK POT APPLE CHICKEN STEW (LOW FAT)

Steps:

• In a slow cooker, layer potatoes, carrots, onion and celery.
• Combine salt, thyme, pepper and caraway; sprinkle half over veggies.
• In a skillet, saute the chicken cubes in oil, until browned; transfer to a slow cooker.
• Top with apple.
• Combine the apple cider and vinegar; pour over chicken and apple.
• Sprinkle with remaining salt mixture.
• Top with bay leaf.
• Cover, and cook on high for 4-5 hours, or until veggies are tender, and chicken is cooked.
• Remove the bay leaf.
• Stir before serving.

EASY CHICKEN STEW

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large saucepan. Add the white spring onion slices and fry for 1 min to soften. Tip in the swede and potatoes and cook for 2-3 mins more, then add the chicken, mustard and stock. Cover and cook for 35 mins, or until the vegetables are tender and the chicken cooked through.
• Add the cabbage and simmer for another 5 mins. If the stew looks too thin, mix the cornflour with 1 tbsp cold water and pour a couple of teaspoonfuls into the pan; let the stew bubble and thicken, then check again. If it's still too thin, add a little more of the cornflour mix and let the stew bubble and thicken some more.
• Season to taste, then spoon the stew into deep bowls. Scatter over the green spring onion slices and serve with crusty bread or warm cheese scones, if you like.