Mediterranean Chicken and Orzo #ImprovCookingChallenge

This easy slow cooker recipe takes only 15 minutes active time and half a day in the slow cooker.  Put it together before you go out to play in the snow and when you get home it is piping hot and ready to warm your body and soothe your soul.

Join the Improv Cooking Team as we share recipes containing Tomatoes and Pasta......

Nichole of Cookaholic Wife challenges us each month to each come up with a recipe that contains two of the same ingredients....in this case....Tomatoes and Pasta.  Let's see what everyone made............

February Improv Cooking Challenge

Improv Cooking Challenge:February 2021

Tomatoes & Pasta

• Cameroon Chicken & Tomato Stew with CousCous from Pandemonium Noshery
• Cajun Chicken Fettuccine from Making Miracles
• Southwest Pasta Salad from Palatable Pastime
• Baked Feta Tomato Fettuccine from Cookaholic Wife
• Pasta with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes and Pepper Sauce by Magical Ingredients
• TicTok Feta Cheese and Tomato Pasta from Our Good Life
• Mediterranean Chicken and Orzo from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Indian Style Pink Sauce Pasta from Sneha's Recipe

My husband suffered a stroke and then a brain bleed at the beginning of the year, caused by hypertension.  Since he has been home from the hospital I have been doing my best to change our diet to a low sodium and heart healthy menu.  I have been finding a lot of help and ideas by looking through Eating Well magazines and website. 

 
This dish is one I found on line.  It called for olives but my husband is not an olive lover so I omitted them.  I would also tone down the lemon a little bit next time I make it, perhaps a smaller lemon or the juice of half a larger lemon.  I was unable to find whole wheat orzo so I just went with the regular kind.

Slow cooker, Chicken, Entrees, Pasta
Entrees, Pasta, Chicken
American
Yield: 4 servings
Author: Wendy Klik

Slow Cooker Chicken and Orzo
This easy slow cooker recipe takes only 15 minutes active time and half a day in the slow cooker. Put it together before you go out to play in the snow and when you get home it is piping hot and ready to warm your body and soothe your soul.
Prep time: 15 MinCook time: 4 H & 30 MTotal time: 4 H & 45 M
Ingredients
• 1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into 4 pieces
• 1 c. chicken broth (low sodium)
• 3 Campari tomatoes, seeded and diced
• 1/2 Vidalia onion, chopped
• zest and juice of 1 small lemon
• 1 t. Herbes de Provence
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 3/4 c. orzo (whole wheat if available)
Instructions
1. Place the chicken, broth, tomatoes, onion, lemon zest, lemon juice, herbs, salt and pepper in the crock of a slow cooker.  Cook on high for 2 hrs. or low for 4 hrs.
2. Stir in orzo and cook on high for another 30 minutes.
Notes:
Adapted from a recipe found at Eating Well.
Calories
282.05
Fat (grams)
4.93
Sat. Fat (grams)
1.24
Carbs (grams)
18.02
Fiber (grams)
1.26
Net carbs
16.76
Sugar (grams)
4.52
Protein (grams)
39.47
Sodium (milligrams)
1087.78
Cholesterol (grams)
101.37
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