Winner, winner chicken dinner!

Here’s an easy weeknight meal idea: Crock-Pot Chicken and Gravy.

This hearty slow cooked dinner is a family favorite and only requires 5 simple ingredients.

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Crock-Pot Chicken and Gravy

Makes 6+ servings

Ingredients

• 2 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 2 chicken gravy packets I used low sodium
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 1 can cream of chicken soup
• 1 bag frozen mixed veggies optional
• 3 cups of cooked white rice or mashed potatoes for serving

Instructions

• Add chicken to the Crock-Pot.
• Pour next three ingredients- gravy, chicken broth, and soup on top and stir to combine.
• Stir in the bag of frozen mixed veggies.
• Cover and cook on low 5-6 hours.
• Using two forks shred chicken and mix well.
• Serve warm over buttered rice or mashed potatoes.

This simple dump and go slowcooker recipe only requires a few basic

ingredients that you may already have in your pantry!

Start by adding chicken breasts to your Crock-pot. 

Add two packets of chicken gravy to the Crock-Pot.

I used low sodium to cut down on the salt in the recipe. 

Now add I can of cream of chicken soup and a bag of frozen mixed veggies on top.

Pour in one cup chicken broth and give it a stir. 

Cover and cook on low for 5-6 hours.

I like to serve this dish with white rice mixed right in!

It is also really tasty on top of creamy mashed potatoes.

Using two forks shred the chicken in the Crock-Pot.

Stir well to combine. 

This hearty recipe makes at least six servings.

Serve warm with rice mixed right in or scoop and serve over rice or mashed potatoes. 

Dinner’s served!

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Not only do I get as giddy as a schoolgirl about IKEA’s bookshelves and massive shelves piled high with kitchen tools, baskets, and picture frames I am addicted, yes addicted, to their Swedish Meatballs and Gravy. So after shopping at the Ikea’s in Dallas, Tampa, and Houston in the past year (and noshing on the meatballs during all my excursions there), I decided it was time to recreate their meatball recipe so I could have it at home anytime I craved it!  

This recipe was my #3 most popular recipe in 2013! View the Top 10 here

 

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Ikea Swedish Meatballs with Gravy

    Makes approx 50 meatballs!

Ingredients

• 2 garlic cloves minced
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup low fat milk
• 4 slices bread cubed
• 1 egg beaten
• 1 lb ground pork
• 3/4 lb ground beef 80/20
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire
• 1/2 tsp allspice
• grated fresh nutmeg about 4 swipes or 1/8 teaspoon
• white pepper to taste
• salt to taste
• dried parsley as garnish optional

Gravy:

• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 4 tablespoons flour
• 2 1/2 cups beef broth
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1/8 teaspoon allspice
• salt/cracked black pepper to taste

Instructions

• Saute onion in the butter over medium heat until softened, about 5 minutes.
• Add garlic and cook for an additional 2 minutes.
• Turn heat down to medium low and whisk in milk, Worcestershire, allspice, nutmeg, salt and white pepper and bring to a simmer then remove from heat.
• Place bread cubes in a bowl and pour onion mixture over top. Mix well and let cool.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Mix cooled bread-onion mix into beaten egg, ground pork, and ground beef.
• Shape into 1 inch meatballs and place on two greased baking sheets, 5 across and 6 rows total.
• Bake for 20 minutes, or until cooked through.
• Serve topped with gravy, garnished with parsley and with a side of Lingonberry preserves (found at Ikea) and mashed potatoes.

Gravy :

• In a large skillet, melt butter on medium heat.
• Whisk in the flour slowly and cook until smooth and slightly darkened.
• Add the beef broth, allspice, salt, pepper, and
• Worcestershire sauce and bring to a simmer.
• Reduce the heat to medium low and stir until gravy thickens.
• Stir in sour cream, mix well, and serve warm on top of meatballs.

Saute onions until softened and translucent then add garlic.

I love to use freshly grated nutmeg.
I bought the nutmeg and the microplane spice grinder at Williams Sonoma.
Just remember a little goes a long way!

Bring the onion-milk mixture to a simmer and until it is thick like a paste.

Mix the fragrant onion mix with the soft cubed bread and let cool and absorb.

Shape into mini 1 inch meatballs.

 

Using the skillet that you sauteed the onions in, melt butter and whisk in flour, making a roux.

This is the base of the gravy.

 

Once the gravy is thickened, you can either eat the meatballs alone topped with the gravy

 

 

 or serve meatballs on top of mashed potatoes, smothered in gravy, served with a side of Lingonberry preserves.

During my last trip to IKEA I picked up a jar of Lingonberry preserves to go with my meatballs.
If you do not have these try Cranberry preserves or sauce.

 

These meatballs are addictive– just like IKEA!

 

 

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