The Best 5 Ingredient Crockpot Meals

Crockpot meals can be a lifesaver in the kitchen. However, sometimes you need something easy! Having a few recipes on hand that doesn’t require many ingredients can save you time and money in the kitchen. Save more money with your crockpot by adding some simple five-ingredient crockpot recipes to your meal plan! This will save you time preparing your food, and it will still taste just as good! Anyone who eats it won’t even know the difference! Fool your friends and family with these easy and straightforward crockpot meals. Here are the best five ingredient crockpot meals to make this week.

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Easy Homemade Cajun Chicken Soup Recipe in the Crockpot

I could eat soup every day for the rest of my life and never get sick of it. No joke. It's funny because making soup from scratch is a skill I only learned about a ten years ago. Sure I'd heated up those cans that you add a cup full of water to, but never anything where I sliced, diced and seasoned anything from scratch. I had a fabulous neighbor who could not go without seeing you and feeding you. If I ran into her at the mailbox, I swear she had a fresh hot muffin in her hands just in case she happened to bump into you. She found out that I liked soup and the next time I saw her she held a bowl in her hands for me to try.

I heard one time to never give a dish back empty, so when I returned a yummy chicken soup she had made for me, the tradition was started. This little glass dish went back and forth between us for years. She taught me how to cook soup and use up what you had in your refrigerator. I've got a yummy soup recipe that you can try if you like a little spice. It's a good variation on a traditional chicken soup and you can make it in your crockpot or instant pot.

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The Very Best Pico De Gallo Recipe

While on my little blogging break back in August, I talked a lot with one of my old friends. She's a mom of three young boys sometimes struggling to make it through the day happy that all three kids survived and then is left having to come up with something to feed them.

I mean seriously people, why do these little guys need fed too! They require so much. Only kidding, but if you have young kids, you totally get where she's coming from.

So I shared with her some of my favorite super quick recipes. One of our classic weekly meals is Taco Tuesday.

I love it because it's a crock pot meal and I can feel quite accomplished in the fact that by 7:30 a.m. dinner is done! Let's get started, for our family of 5, hoping for leftovers I use 4 large frozen (yep, don't even thaw them) chicken breasts.

Then I sprinkle half a package of taco seasoning over them and set it to cook for 8 hours. Instead of taco seasoning, you can also use salsa that you may have on hand (about a half a cup) or a can of green chili peppers (4 oz). Any of those work, I've tried them all.

The Best Pico De Gallo Recipe

Meanwhile, sometime during the day I throw together homemade salsa.

Here's what you need for that:

3-6 medium tomatoes (depending on how much salsa you want) finely chopped

3/4 cup green pepper finely chopped

1/2 cup onion finely chopped

1/2 cup green onion finely chopped

6 garlic cloves pressed

2 t. cider vinegar

2 t. lemon juice (I freshly squeeze mine)

2 t. vegetable or olive oil

1 to 2 tsp ground cumin

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 to 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper

chopped cilantro

and if you are feeling spicy some chopped jalapeno peppers

Blend all of the ingredients together, cover and refrigerate

Making salsa is very forgiving though. If you don't have something (I didn't have any green onions) just leave it out.

After about 8 hours shred your chicken

I cook up rice and black beans and serve

My favorite part is leftovers the next day. I always take the beans and rice and top it with the chicken and salsa. Yummo!

There you have it. A nice easy Taco Tuesday. Do you have an easy meal that you like to serve weekly?

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