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Creamy Chicken with Orzo

Creamy Orzo with Chicken, Sun-dried tomato & chorizo, kind of a crossover between pasta and a risotto vibe.

Ingredients
– 2 lbs chicken breasts (about 3 breast)
– 2 tbsp red pesto
– 7 oz chorizo
– 3/4 cup of Sundried tomatoes
– 1 tbsp Italian seasoning
– 4-6 garlic cloves sliced
– 1/2 cup chicken stock + 3 cups for pasta
– 2 1/4 cups of dry orzo
– 3/4 cups heavy cream
– Handful of spinach or basil (I used both)
– 14 oz jar Sweet peppers
– Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Cook the chorizo briefly for 1 min
2. Add to the slowcooker with chicken, pesto, Sundried tomatoes, garlic, basil, 1/2 cup of stock & salt and pepper
3. Cook on high for 2-3 hours or low for double that
4. Add in orzo, 3 cups of of stock & the peppers. Cook for a further 50 mins
5. Stir in spinach and cream, top with Parmesan as an option
You need to try this one! Enjoy!

Serves 4-5

Recipe credit: boredoflunch

Music: Epidemic sound

I love making meals in the crock pot there’s nothing better than coming home from a long day and having a delicious meal waiting for you and I have got a good one for you today this is a creamy chicken with orzo pasta and it sounds absolutely delicious so without further Ado let’s get started on this crock poot meal the first thing I’m going to do is brown my tereso got my Skillet here sitting on a medium temperature and just going to throw my chizo in here and you just need to cook it for about a minute or so it doesn’t need to be thoroughly cook we’re just Browning it for the chorizo I have 7 oz so I’m using 7 o of chizo in this recipe next we’re going to add the chicken to the crock pot and we’re going to season this with salt and pepper so I have about 2 lbs three chicken breasts that I have chopped up in cubes here and I’m going to season this a little bit of salt and a little bit of pepper then we’re going to add the 7 oz of chorizo that we kind of browned a little [Music] bit next we’re going to add sundried tomatoes I have about 3/4 of a cup of chopped up sundried tomatoes that I’m going to add in here next thing I’m going to add is some garlic cloves I have about six garlic cloves here that have sliced so just add that in I have one teaspoon of Italian seasoning here going to sprinkle that on everything so I have this sundried tomato pesto that I’m going to add in and do you need two tablespoons of [Music] this and lastly I have a half a cup of chicken broth that I’m going to add in and we are going to cover this and cook this on high for about 3 hours if you’re not in a rush like me you can do it on low for about 6 hours now that it’s spend 3 hours we’re going to go ahead and add in a few more ingredients I have here a jar of sweet peppers so let’s open this up we add in the sweet peppers oo those look delicious okay I have a 2 and 1/4 cups of Oro pasta that I’m going to pour in and we have three cups of chicken stock okay I’m going to toss that around to get everything combined that looks good and we just need to place a lid back on here for an additional 50 minutes this has been cooking for 50 minutes in the crock pot we’re going to add in our final ingredients now I have a 3/4 cup of heavy cream that I’m going to add in I have some spinach as well as some basil and I’m going to give this a good stir then you want to top it with some Parmesan [Music] cheese this looks absolutely delicious it is so creamy and smells so good I’ll put some of this on a plate now and my husband and I would do a taste test for [Music] y’all all right y’all we’re going to do the taste test I’m going to let my honey go first we’ll give his opinion mhm mhm what does it taste like it’s really creamy got real good spices M tastes so good h scale 1 to 10 definitely 10 10 mhm wow okay let me give it a try see what I think M that’s really good guys yeah it’s really I give it a 10 as well all right well hopefully you guys make this recipe comment below if you do or share your favorite recipe with me below and and as always thank you all for joining me today and if you haven’t already please subscribe I’ll see you in the next video bye