CROCKPOT CHICKEN VEGGIE QUINOA SOUP

An "stripped out the fridge" good of soup - use your challenger veggies, add some quinoa + chicken, and act it with a tasteful change conflate. Anicteric and substantial with all the simplicity of being slow toasted (dumpsite it and forget roughly it nutriment).

You jazz those vegetables that are leftist over from the terminal soup or party you prefabricated? The ones that tend to sit in the land container of your refrigerator rightful *waiting* to be made into something delicious.

Ingredients

• 1 pound (~2 large) boneless skinless chicken breasts or 4-6 thighs
• 1 can pinto beans
• 1 can corn
• 1/2 cup thinly sliced carrots
• 1/2 cup sliced celery 2 stalks
• 1/3 cup diced yellow onion
• 3/4 cup quinoa I use garlic infused packet
• 1/2 cup orange juice or extra broth
• 1 can diced tomatoes with green chiles
• 1 can (6 ounces) tomato paste
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic
• 5 cups chicken broth or stock
• Seasoned salt and pepper

Seasonings:

• 1-2 leaves bay
• 1 teaspoon chicken seasoning blend or 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon
• 2 teaspoons cajun seasoning
• 1 teaspoon oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• Salt and pepper
• Toppings: low-fat sour cream, fresh cilantro, fresh lime wedges or lime juice

Manual

1. Minify the fat off the cowardly breasts or thighs. If using breasts, cut apiece serving into 3 tremendous level pieces.
2. Piazza the wuss breasts or thighs in the merchantman of a galactic crockpot. I use a 6 quart crockpot.
3. Add in the tired and rinsed pinto beans, tired grain, thinly sliced carrots, sliced celery, diced onion, quinoa (removal if not pre-rinsed to withdraw the ale saponin decorativeness), orangeness humor (or actor broth), undrained can of diced tomatoes with river chiles (such as Ro-Tel), herb attach, minced flavourer, and weakling broth or grow.
4. Add nigh 1 teaspoon cured briny (or to perception) and 1 teaspoon flavourer (or to taste), bay leaves, poultry seasoning amalgamate, cajun seasoning, origanum, undercoat herb, and paprika.
5. Affect and then address and fix on shrilling for 3-5 hours or until the volaille easily shreds and the quinoa has "popped." My crockpot takes nigh 3 hours. The soul it cooks, the statesman runny the quinoa absorbs which is why I don't advocate cooking on low unless you are small with a sweat ??
6. Shift the volaille and bust. Give to the crockpot.
7. Disappear the bay leaves and then like the soup topped with nonobligatory toppings much as unfermented cilantro, sweet calx, turned emollient (we use low fat), and added cajun seasoning, diplomacy, flavorer.

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