Crock Pot Peanut Chicken and Spinach Bowl

The time and effort spent in the kitchen are minimized as well as the cleanup when you use a crockpot. They are also designed to easily feed a group of 4-6. What’s not to love? Especially when you can use recipes as good as a crock pot peanut chicken and spinach bowl.

Easy Crock Pot recipes are something I truly love. You can prepare all the ingredients in the morning, put it all in the slow cooker, then come home later and put the finishing touches on. The crock pot peanut chicken and spinach bowl recipe can help make a healthy crock pot meal for dinner and the whole family.

In this Crock Pot Peanut chicken and spinach bowl recipe, the chicken slow cooks all day in a delicious sauce. The sauce is definitely the key to making this chicken recipe stand out in a crowd of Crock Pot chicken recipes. It’s spicy but not too spicy and also not super heavy on the peanut flavor. It’s just enough to appeal to kids and adults alike.

The morning prep is pretty easy on this one. You can start as late as 9 am. It’s great for busy days when you are driving the kids to and from after school activities and sports. Many Crock Pots have a warm feature that will switch on automatically when the cooking is done and keep things warm until you get home. 

About an hour before you want to eat, you’ll want to cook long grain rice, like Jasmine, according to the directions. You can even use rice that has been precooked to save time. Then, 30 minutes before dinner, shred the chicken in the peanut sauce. Two forks work well to shred the chicken. 

There are also cool kitchen gadgets like claws that you can use too.

Once the chicken is shredded, add one or two containers or bags of spinach and let the leaves slowly simmer and soften into the chicken and sauce.  As it cooks it will shrink down so there really is no need to cut or chop the spinach.  It’s as simple as that. 

A hearty family dinner that practically cooks itself. It’s pleasing to the taste buds, your time, and your budget. 

Crock Pot Peanut Chicken and Spinach Bowl Ingredients

Peanut chicken is such a great dish. There are so many health benefits to it as well. But you will need peanut dipping sauce to get started.

You can go with a couple of different cuts of chicken if you’d like. However, chicken breasts work best in this recipe. The rice and the spinach aren’t picky either. You may already have long-grain rice sitting in your kitchen, that will work. You could also choose to use fresh spinach if you want. Just make sure it is washed before you add it to the dish.

Directions

Spray the inside of your Crock Pot with cooking spray.  This will keep the sauce and chicken from sticking while it cooks. 

Pour the chicken broth into the Crock Pot.  Then add the chicken and pour the peanut sauce over the top.

Cover the Crock Pot with the lid and cook on low for 6-8 hours, or high for 3-4 hours. 

When the chicken has finished cooking, shred the chicken in the sauce. 

Add the spinach to the Crock Pot. Cover and let the spinach simmer and cook, about 15 minutes while the Crock Pot is still set on “Warm”.

Serve over the cooked rice. 

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