I originally got this recipe from Macrostax.com, which has a fairly impressive selection of high-protein recipes in their blog. I absolutely love slow-cooker meal prep because it's simple, quick prep that is reeeeally hard to mess up. While I love nutrition and food, I can honestly say that I am not the best chef in the world, and I unfortunately have a tendency to burn things. With a slow cooker, that's nearly impossible!

The original recipe can be found using this link, but I ended up modifying it a little bit to fit my taste preferences. The Macrostax recipe calls for green chiles, but I don't like peppers so I subbed those out for frozen peas and carrots, and I didn't have coriander so I used basil. So the final ingredient list I ended up using looked like this:

• 2lbs raw chicken breast strips
• 2 cans cannellini beans (rinsed/drained)
• 3 cups fat-free chicken broth
• 128g diced white onion
• 1 tbsp cumin
• 1 tbsp basil
• 1 tsp chili powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 cups frozen corn
• 1/2 cups frozen peas and carrots mixture
• Juice from 1 lime

 
I followed the cooking instructions exactly from Macrostax (including adding 2 cups of cooked beans and broth to the blender for the creamy affect), except that since I added double the frozen veggies at the end, I let it cook for about 25 more minutes.

The result was phenomenal. I was really impressed with the flavor of this recipe. Macrostax claims that the recipe makes 8 servings at 313 calories, 34.5g carbs, 36g protein, and 4g of fat. If I divided my final result into 8 servings, the macros ended up being 302 calories, 30g carbs, 45g protein, 2g fat...which is AWESOME to say the least.

Conclusion: I will definitely be making this recipe again. After eating it for a week, I found that one serving wasn't quite enough to fill me up for dinner, so my meals ended up being 1.5 servings. With only 5 major ingredients (spices not included), at 1.5 servings per meal, I got 5.5 meals out of this recipe for about $3 each! If you did eat just one serving per meal, it came out to about $2/serving.

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