Slow Cooker Queso Chicken Tacos – only 4 ingredients! Chicken slow-cooked in taco seasoning, diced tomatoes and green chiles, and Mexican cheese dip. Dangerously delicious. Serve in tortillas with your favorite taco toppings. Can freeze leftover for a quick meal later. Taco Tuesday never tasted so good! #crockpot #slowcooker #chicken #mexican #tacos
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We love Mexican food at our house. These Slow Cooker Queso Chicken Tacos are a favorite. They are SO easy to make with only 4ingredients and taste great. We make these cheesy chicken tacos at least once a month. The chicken mixture is not only great in tacos but also on top of rice, nachos, baked potatoes or a salad. I love versatile recipes like this one!
How to Make Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken
These Slow Cooker Queso Chicken Tacos are super easy to make. Cook some chicken with taco seasoning and Rotel diced tomatoes and green chiles. Shred the chicken and stir in some queso dip. That’s it! SO easy!
I used some Pancho’s cheese dip in this recipe. It is a refrigerated orange Mexican cheese dip. I buy it at Sam’s Club or Walmart. If you can’t find Pancho’s, feel free to use any brand of refrigerated queso dip or a jar of queso dip from the chip aisle.
You can turn this main dish into a dip by adding more cheese dip to the chicken mixture. This would be great poured over nachos or served warm in the crockpot with chips. YUM!
What to Serve with Queso Chicken Tacos
These Slow Cooker Queso Chicken Tacos are a favorite at our house. I’d rather eat these cheesy chicken tacos than go out for Mexican. This makes a lot of chicken, so this is great for a crowd. As I said, this chicken is great in tacos, a burrito bowl, on nachos or a salad for a low-carb/keto option. Here are a few of our favorite recipes from the blog that go great with these chicken tacos:
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Slow Cooker Queso Chicken Tacos
Equipment:
Ingredients:
- 2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 (1-oz) package taco seasoning
- 1 (10-oz) can Rotel diced tomatoes and green chilies
- 1-1/2 cups Mexican cheese dip (refrigerated or jarred)
Instructions:
- Place chicken in a 6-qt slow cooker. Sprinkle with taco seasoning and top with tomatoes.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 4 to 6 hours.
- Remove chicken from slow cooker and shred with two forks. Return chicken to slow cooker and stir in cheese dip.
- Serve with tortillas or hard taco shells and favorite taco toppings.
Notes:
- If you feel that there is too much liquid in the slow cooker after the chicken cooks, you can drain it out of the crockpot.
- The amount of liquid will just depend on the size and brand of chicken that you use.
- Can use more or less cheese dip. Adjust measurements to your personal preference.
- Can freeze leftover chicken for later.
- I use Gordo’s or Pancho’s White Queso dip. I find it in the refrigerated cheese section at the store.
- Here is our recipe for Homemade Taco Seasoning made with chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder, red pepper flakes, oregano, paprika, cumin, salt, and pepper: https://www.plainchicken.com/homemade-taco-seasoning/
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I feel ridiculous for asking but do you mix the chicken and diced tomatoes or just leave them on the top of the chicken?
It doesn’t matter. It will all get mixed up when you shred the chicken and stir in the queso.
This looks and sounds really delicious I’m going to give it a try 😋 my granddaughter’s love tacos so hopefully they’ll like this 🤔🤔
I think avocado and mango would be so good on this I better stop I’m making myself hungry 😋😂😂😂😂😂
Made this for dinner tonight! It was a HIT!!!
If you don’t like cheese dip, could you use shredded cheese instead??
Made it tonight!!! Very good. I would note that there was a lot of liquid with the chicken and the Rotel! May want to serve with a slotted spoon.
I made this for my son’s 17th birthday and it was a hit. I used about 6 pounds of chicken breasts — I put the big breasts on the bottom and thin sliced breasts on top (that is what I had on hand). I only used one seasoning packet and one can of Rotel, plus 1.5 jars of the queso. Plenty of flavor; a second seasoning packet and can of tomatoes would have been too much. I will definitely make this again. Perfect for a Potluck or to bring a meal to a family who is going through a major life event.
Could I us crushed tomatoes with a can of green chili peppers instead of what you suggest. I don’t eat tomatoes (but use crushed tomatoes in a lot of recipes).
I soooo want to try this recipe.
Thanks, Janet
I think that crushed tomatoes and a can of green chilies would be fine. You would taste the green chilies more b/c there would be more of them though.
Can I cook on high for 3 hours instead?
yes
Do I need to add water to the crockpot with the chicken and the Rotel? Or will the juices in the Rotel be enough?
I did not add water.
Do you drain it after it cooks/before you put the cheese in?
I did not, but you can if your chicken has a lot of liquid.
Can you use rotisserie chicken with this recipe?
My family loved this and it was so simple to prepare!!
I’ve made this recipe twice and my son and I both love it. I made it with Chi Chi’s diced onion, garlic and green chilis taco seasoning and for the cheese sauce I used white cheese sauce by On The Border. Any Queso Blanco sauce would work. It turned out so good. Thank you for this recipe. It’s so quick and easy to make.
I know you posted this in May but no one answered. I just used tostitos con queso cheese dip.
According to the recipe, the only liquid that you put into the slow cooker is from the rotel? I am trying to understand how that is enough liquid to cook chicken and it not burn.
That is how I made it. Make it however you are comfortable.
Ok, thank you. Just wanted to make sure.
I put this in the slow cooker this morning! I didn’t read the directions and threw it all in together with the cheese dip. I made your chicken and rice last night! I hope the cheese dip is okay until the chicken cooks. I’ll just add more cheese at the end, if the cheese dip doesn’t burn! 5 stars for ease of Ingredients! If it fails, it is totally my fault!
How long should you let it cook after adding the cheese dip?
Just until the dip is warm – a few minutes.