Low Fat Chicken Stew Food

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!

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.

YOSEMITE CHICKEN STEW WITH CORNMEAL DUMPLINGS (LOW FAT)

Steps:

• Place chicken, onion, carrot, celery, salt, pepper, cloves, bay leaf, and water in a large saucepan. Heat to boiling; cover and reduce heat to simmer. Cook about 1/2 hour or until chicken is tender.
• Remove chicken and vegetables from broth. Strain broth.
• Skim fat from broth; measure and, if necessary, add water to make 3 cups liquid.
• Mix cornstarch with 1 cup cooled broth.
• Pour into saucepan with remaining broth; cook, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil and is thickened.
• Add basil, peas, and reserved vegetables to sauce; stir to combine.
• Add chicken and heat slowly to boiling while preparing cornmeal dumplings.
• For the dumplings:.
• Sift together cornmeal, flour, baking powder, and salt into a large mixing bowl.
• Mix together milk and oil. Add milk mixture all at once to dry ingredients; stir just enough to moisten flour and evenly distribute liquid. Dough will be soft.
• Drop by full tablespoons on top of braised meat or stew. Cover tightly; heat to boiling. Reduce heat (do not lift cover) to simmering and steam about 20 minutes.

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.