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Meal Prep Hatch Green Chile Chicken {GF, Low Cal, Paleo}

September 9, 2017

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Meal Prep Hatch Green Chile Chicken! This simple dinner recipe is filled with spicy and smoky flavors. Serve over brown rice, lettuce or zucchini noodles for a lighter, healthier dish! Gluten Free + Low Calorie + Paleo option

Meal Prep Hatch Green Chile Chicken! This simple dinner recipe is filled with spicy and smoky flavors. Serve over brown rice, lettuce or zucchini noodles for a lighter, healthier dish! Gluten Free + Low Calorie + Paleo

Ready or not, I’ve got another EASY meal prep hack for you guys today. Meal Prep Hatch Green Chile Chicken! It’s spicy, flavorful and full on dummy proof to make. It’s made in my favorite kitchen tool, the crockpot. Perfect for meal prepping ahead of time or making the day of. Just toss all the ingredients in there. Set it and forget about it. So easy!

This recipe represents my love of spicy food and well, when you’re always watching your weight (like I am) chicken becomes soooo boring and bland, which is why I’m always looking for ways to flavor it up. Spices, herbs, marinades, salsas, are ways I make chicken taste like a brand new dish time after time.

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Meal Prep Hatch Green Chile Chicken! This simple dinner recipe is filled with spicy and smoky flavors. Serve over brown rice, lettuce or zucchini noodles for a lighter, healthier dish! Gluten Free + Low Calorie + Paleo

This hatch chile recipe is inspired by the checkout gal at Trader Joe’s. I picked up their frozen fire roasted hatch green chile. I wasn’t sure what I was about to do with it, but I knew it would be spicy good! When I checked out the woman asked me what I was making. I told her something good. That’s when she mentioned the crockpot and lightbulbs went off in my head.

Now, if you don’t have access to a Trader Joe’s you can buy this at most Walmart’s in the frozen section. See the recipe card for more details on that and how to make it homemade too!

Meal Prep Hatch Green Chile Chicken! This simple dinner recipe is filled with spicy and smoky flavors. Serve over brown rice, lettuce or zucchini noodles for a lighter, healthier dish! Gluten Free + Low Calorie + Paleo

I love this Meal Prep Hatch Green Chile Chicken because it pairs well with almost anything. I served mine with brown rice and summer squash, but you can easily omit the rice and do cauliflower rice spiralized squash. I’m always looking for an excuse to use my spiralizer more. It’s so fun! It would also be great to eat over a heaping bowl of lettuce. So many options!

Divide the chicken among four meal prep containers and store in the fridge for already portioned lunches or dinners. So EASY! Watch the video below for more tips!

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Meal Prep Hatch Green Chile Chicken

Meal Prep Crockpot Hatch Green Chile Chicken! This simple dinner recipe is filled with spicy and smoky flavors. Serve over brown rice, lettuce or zucchini noodles for a lighter, healthier dish! Gluten Free + Low Calorie + Paleo
Author Skinny Fitalicious
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Servings 4 servings
Calories 132 kcal
Meal Prep Hatch Green Chile Chicken! This simple dinner recipe is filled with spicy and smoky flavors. Serve over brown rice, lettuce or zucchini noodles for a lighter, healthier dish! Gluten Free + Low Calorie + Paleo
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Ingredients

  • 3 chicken breasts
  • 1 package Trader Joe's Frozen Fire Roasted Hatch Green Chile thawed
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
  • 1 tbsp cumin
US Customary - Metric

Instructions

  1. Place all ingredients in a crockpot.
  2. Set the crockpot to high and cook 3 hours until chicken is tender. You will know it's done when the chicken easily shreds with a fork. You may have to help it by pulling it apart a little.
  3. Remove from the crockpot and divide among 4 meal prep containers. Add additional ingredients to the container as desired.

Recipe Notes

  • If you don't have access to Trader Joe's, you can also buy frozen hatch green chile at Walmart. Alternatively, you can make your own by blending 4 large hatch green chiles together with 1 tablespoon garlic and 1 jar of green salsa. Add the other ingredients in the recipe to make your own version!
  • Nutritional information reflects the hatch chicken only. You will need to account for veggies, rice, etc. that you add to it.
  • 1 serving equals approximately 1 heaping cup
  • My Amazon shop has more products similar to those used for this recipe and that I recommend to my nutrition clients.
Course Dinner, Lunch
Cuisine American
Keyword chicken, chili, crockpot, gluten free, hatch, healthy, low calorie, lunch, meal prep, slow cooker
Nutrition facts per serving (1serving)
Calories 132 kcal
Fat 1.8 g
Saturated Fat 0.4 g
Cholesterol 36.4 mg
Sodium 50.6 mg
Potassium 0 mg
Carbohydrates 17.4 g
Fiber 0.1 g
Sugar 11.5 g
Protein 19.2 g
Vitamin A 0 %
Vitamin C 0 %
Calcium 0 %
Iron 0 %

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Meal Prep Hatch Green Chile Chicken! This simple dinner recipe is filled with spicy and smoky flavors. Serve over brown rice, lettuce or zucchini noodles for a lighter, healthier dish! Gluten Free + Low Calorie + Paleo option

Meal Prep Hatch Green Chile Chicken! This simple dinner recipe is filled with spicy and smoky flavors. Serve over brown rice, lettuce or zucchini noodles for a lighter, healthier dish! Gluten Free + Low Calorie + Paleo option

About Megan

Megan is a certified nutrition practitioner, author, freelance food photographer and fitness instructor living in Phoenix, Arizona. On her blog, Skinny Fitalicious she shares EASY, gluten free recipes for weight loss. Follow Megan on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram for the latest updates.

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  1. kathy freas says

    January 15, 2021 at 8:50 am

    easy, simple recipe for an excellent base for green chile chicken stew or enchiladas-can add stock or water to make soup/stew, or reduce for low cal, low carb enchiladas (of course, the corn tortillas have carbs, but. go light on the tortillas and heavy on this mxture. I roast my own chiles, so don’t need Trader Joe’s I prefer whole chiles, which in some places in the SW you can get frozen if you don’t want to/can’t roast your own from the September-October season. Whole chiles emphasize unparalled flavor with some heat. Diced (as in the Trader Joe’s recommended here) result in heat, heat, heat, which can eclipse flavor. Go for the whole if you can find them

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