Shredded Crockpot Chicken Taco Meat

Crockpot chicken taco meat is great for meal prepping or made in large batches with fresh meat or made with slow cooker frozen chicken with a few ingredients. In no time with little prep, you’ll have a yummy meal.

Shredded Chicken Taco Recipe

If you love easy chicken recipes, welcome to the club! Pair that with a delicious slow cooker dinner and BAM you’re speaking our language too. You can just throw it into some small tortillas with avocado and lettuce and a healthy meal is made.

Once you fall in love with this one, use the other meat and make a batch of slow cooker taco meat. We love those too served up the same way.

Let’s talk a little bit about slow cooking shall we?? First off I have a few different varieties and I love them all. Each one has an occasion to be used like….

1. This is my favorite 6 quart programmable one with a locking lid so it’s great for bringing to a potluck too.
2. I prefer not to use liners, but rather just spray olive oil inside before adding my food for easier cleanups.

Let me give you a peek of my pretty thang I bought recently. It goes with my kitchen so I can just leave it out on the countertop all the time. 😉

Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken

Instant Pot shredded chicken is something we make quite often. If you don’t have that fast cooking multi cooker then we wanted to share how this was done slow and low too. If old fashioned ways are where it’s at with you when making dinner for your family, this should be right up your alley.

This is what was thrown together to create this kid friendly meal. This is in fact a guest blog post on our site today, made from a friend of mine who lives in a city we once resided in. She’s a great home cook and loves sharing her creations. Photos were taken in her kitchen while prepping, we thank her for her cheap dinner idea. 😉

Since she is a rockstar she makes her own homemade salsa, using the tomatoes grown in her own garden. Of course you could use bottled if you don’t have the time for that, or for another tweak our Qdoba salsa verde is incredible too.

If you find chicken breasts on sale, or you buy bulk meat online, you can really make quite a few of these in a short amount of time. You can freeze them too and slow cooker frozen chicken works just the same, the timing doesn’t change. There are directions if you want to store these healthy chicken freezer meals below too.

Ingredients

1. Boneless skinless chicken breasts or you could use thighs
2. Taco seasoning mix you will want
3. Jar of salsa – or use fresh
4. Ranch seasoning, the dry packet
5. Olive oil is best
6. Chicken broth 

How to serve chicken tacos

• Taco shells
• Soft corn or flour tortillas
• For low carb fill our air fryer zucchini boats with this and some cheese on top
• 1/2 cup of cheese per person (or so). We like to pile it on though so I don’t really measure. LOL. Mexican cheese mix is fantastic.

How to Cook Shredded Crockpot Chicken Taco Meat with Frozen Chicken

1. First you might want to spray the inside of the pot with non stick spray, or use a liner.
2. Put chicken on the bottom with all other ingredients on the top.
   1. or if you’ve already prepped it, just pour contents of defrosted bag into pot
3. Cover and cook on low for 4-6 hours

Can you double this for a large crowd?

You could double this recipe if you are batch cooking but you’d need a larger Crock to do so. It’s a great recipe since it is super easy to throw everything together for a weeknight meal.

How do you know when shredded chicken is done?

1. if you attempt to shred it with 2 forks and it is tough to do, it’s not done yet
   1. it should easily pull apart with little to no effort, if not then cook longer
   2. cooking on high doesn’t help, low and slow is better in my opinion
2. Shred chicken with two forks

Serve as desired in homemade tortillas or on top of Slow cooker white rice.

Do you need an appliance to shred chicken? Well you can use your stand mixer if you have a lot to do. You’d need to cool it a bit first though, wrap it in a towel and put it on low. Forks work just fine for every day batches like this though.

It is up to you how you serve them up really. If you’re going for a low carb dish then maybe it is all by itself with some veggies on the side. This is typically what I have available on our taco bar or when we make air fryer flautas:

What do you eat with shredded chicken?

1. Shredded cheese
2. Lettuce
3. Diced tomatoes
4. Olives
5. Salsa
6. Hot sauce
7. Sour cream
8. Avocado if it is in season

What did we miss that you love to add to your shredded chicken taco recipe?

How long can you keep shredded chicken?

We rarely have any left for a typically easy recipe such as this one but you can store leftover shredded chicken in airtight containers and have healthy meals for 3-4 days in the fridge, and up to 2 months in the freezer.

If you love meals like this, try the same thing made some with beef or ground beef too. 

Here’s how you need to prep it before you throw them into the deep freeze to cook later:

How to Make Shredded Chicken freezer meals

1. Place all ingredients into a Ziplock Freezer bag. Combine well.
2. Label bag and include instructions on the outside.
3. Reduce air inside the bag as much as possible before sealing.
4. Lay flat on a cookie sheet in the freezer until solid.
5. Then you can remove them and stack in your freezer. When you’re ready to use your meal prepped bag:
6. Remove bag of frozen chicken.
7. Thaw in the fridge overnight.
8. Pour the contents of the bag into the crockpot and cook on low for 4-6 hours. Using our pepperoncini chicken is a great option with it too.
9. Serve on homemade tortillas with your choice of toppings

Something else we make with this if we do have leftovers is another version of our Mexican Cornbread Casserole with poultry on the bottom layer instead of ground beef.

Other easy shredded chicken recipes you’ll love

You can make this faster as an Instant Pot chicken recipe of course too, then serve up in a dish like our chicken taco bowls!

• Here are a bunch of the best Crockpot chicken recipes to choose from.
  • Our Crockpot chicken and rice is probably our favorite one.
• Shred and throw this into an air fryer burrito for dinner.
• Crockpot crack chicken uses cream cheese and is comfort food at it’s finest.