Slow Cooker Chicken with Mushrooms & Barley
6
Points®
Total time: 5 hr 40 min • Prep: 10 min • Cook: 5 hr 30 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy
A set-it-and-forget-it winner, this dish is a cross between a barley pilaf and an Italian-style mushroom barley soup. Only 10 minutes of prep and your slow cooker is ready to go. Set it up to cook while you are at work for an effortless weeknight dinner or make this on the weekend and still get all your errands run while it cooks. A simple green salad is a wonderful side dish and add a kick of veggies. Kids may enjoy this dish with it's mild flavors and fun little pearl onions that pop in your mouth. Leftovers can be served at room temperature as a cold grain salad.
Ingredients
Cooking spray
1 spray(s)
Button mushrooms
3 cup(s), chopped or sliced
Frozen pearl onion(s)
0.5 cup(s)
Celery
0.5 cup(s), chopped
Tomato(es)
1 large
Uncooked pearl barley
5 Tbsp
Dried sage
1 tsp
Dried thyme
0.5 tsp
Table salt
0.5 tsp
Black pepper
0.5 tsp
Uncooked boneless skinless chicken breast
24 oz
Instructions
1
Lightly coat the inside of a large nonstick skillet with cooking spray (or spray the inside of a slow cooker insert that can go directly onto the stovetop). Set the pan over medium heat for 1 minute, then add the mushrooms. Cook, stirring often, until the mushrooms give off their liquid and it mostly evaporates, about 5 minutes.
2
Pour the mushrooms into a 5- to 6-quart slow cooker. (Or set the stovetop-safe insert into the slow cooker.) Add the onions, celery, tomato, barley, sage, thyme, salt, and pepper. Stir well. Nestle the chicken breasts into the barley mixture.
3
Cover and cook on low for 5 1/2 hours or until the barley is tender.
4
Serving size: 1 chicken breast and 1 1/4 cups vegetables, grains, and sauce
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