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Weight Watchers Recipe of the Day: Crock Pot Chicken Thighs with Beer and Herbes de Provence (affiliate link)
(Weight Watchers Friendly Crock Pot Cooking Day 175 – Slow Cooker Chicken Thighs with Beer and Herbes de Provence (affiliate link))
I’ve made these easy slow cooker chicken thighs with beer & herbes de provence several times and they’re always a big hit. So, I wanted to be sure to include them in my year of Weight Watchers Friendly Crock Pot Cooking.
I first made the recipe several years ago after coming across it in the Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook.
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Skinny On Slow Cooker Chicken Thighs with Beer
These slow cooker chicken thighs with beer couldn’t be simpler. Just chicken thighs, salt and pepper, a bottle of beer, Herbes de Provence and a bay leaf of two.
You can find herbes de Provence in the spice aisle. It’s a fragrant blend of rosemary, cracked fennel, thyme, savory, basil, tarragon, dill weed, oregano, lavender, chervil and marjoram, that I really love.
To save fat and calories, I used skinless chicken thighs and light beer.
Once again, these slow cooker cooker chicken thighs with beer and herbes de Provence were gobbled up. You really don’t taste “beer” in the cooked dish at all. (At least I can’t.) Even my Mom, who is not a beer fan, thought it was delicious. Enjoy!
Slow Cooker Chicken Thighs with Beer and Herbes de Provence
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 6 chicken thighs, skin removed (about 4-6 ounces each)
- Salt and pepper
- 12 ounces beer
- 2 teaspoons Herbes de Provence
- 2 bay leaves
Instructions
- Ideal slow cooker size: 4-Quart.
- Coat the ceramic insert of your slow cooker with cooking spray.
- Heat 2 teaspoons olive oil in a large skillet (affiliate link) over medium high heat.
- Sprinkle the chicken thighs with salt and pepper and add to the skillet. Cook until they are lightly browned, about 3 minutes, and then turn them over and brown on the other side, about 3 minutes more.
- Transfer the chicken to the slow cooker.
- Return the skillet to the stove. Add the bottle of beer to the skillet, and heat until boiling, stirring to incorporate all the browned bits that are on the bottom of the pan. Stir in the herbes de provence and bay leaves, and cook for another minute or so.
- Pour the beer mixture into the slow cooker over the chicken thighs.
- Cover and cook on HIGH, until the thighs are fork tender, about 4-1/2 hours.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Source: adapted from Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook
*PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® for slow cooker chicken thighs with beer and herbes de Provence calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc.
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Today’s food for thought…
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
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