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Slow Cooker Lemon Pesto Chicken {Freezer Meal Friendly}
34 Comments Aug 26, 2016Updated Apr 13, 2025
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Slow Cooker Lemon Pesto Chicken. This tangy chicken and sauce go great over pasta or rice, and this meal is freezer meal friendly!
This meal freezes very well, no funny taste or mushiness after being thawed and cooked. I serve this chicken and sauce over pasta, and top with parmesan cheese.
Putting this meal into freezer bags is easy peasy. No chopping! Just cut some lemons in half, squeeze the juices, then load up the bags. I make 2 freezer meals at a time since the jar of pesto is just enough for 2 recipes.
This meal does not need to be made into a freezer meal if you aren’t into doing that. You can add the ingredients directly to the slow cooker.
I was so happy that my daughter loved this meal. Usually, she won’t eat anything with green seasonings on it, that’s pretty much every recipe I make!
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Slow Cooker Lemon Pesto Chicken {Freezer Meal Friendly}
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs. boneless skin-less chicken breasts
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1/4 cup FRESHLY SQUEEZED lemon juice, (I don't recommend squeeze bottle lemon juice for cooking)
- 1/2 cup jarred basil pesto, I use Classico brand
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
Instructions
- (IF MAKING A FREEZER MEAL DON’T COOK FIRST, FOLLOW FREEZER INSTRUCTIONS)
- Add everything to the slow cooker. Cover and cook on LOW for 6-8 hours. Serve over pasta or rice, topped with parmesan cheese.
Freezer instructions:
- Add everything to a gallon Ziplock bag. Squeeze out excess air and seal. Place in freezer for up to a month. When ready to make, thaw for 24 hours in the fridge. Follow cooking instructions above.
Sarah’s Notes
Nutrition
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This looks great and I can’t wait to try it. One thing that confused me a little at first: seeing “freshly squeezed” in quotation marks like that confuses your meaning. I’m pretty sure you want to emphasize that it should be freshly squeezed? All caps is enough for that or if you want some punctuation around it, asterisks will help. Quotation marks aren’t for emphasis and are sometimes used to show ironic meaning or to cast doubt—they come across like air quotes or scare quotes. Hope this helps!
Thanks for your input, I will fix!
Horrible recipe. Way overdone, so dry, and the flavor is gross. Should have figured by looking at the ingredients but it was my first time using a crockpot and liked the appeal of simplicity.
This site also hides bad reviews.
I don’t hide bad reviews, they are MODERATED.