Healthy Chicken Lemon "Rice" Soup Riff

There are some recipes that require you to be a Grandma - to make a dish that lives in a person's memory forever.  They've been passed down generation to generation and perfected.  I can still remember what our old neighbor's tamales tasted like, and I was like 5 the last time I had them.  Their Grandma would spend all day making them, and they are the gold standard to which I hold all tamales, 30 some odd years later.

Polish Grandma = life changing Peirogies.  Southern Grandma = Red Velvet Cake (made with beet juice thank you very much)  Italian Grandma = Anisette cookies....You get my drift.

My all time favorite though, is one of my Greek friend's Grandma's Lemon Rice Soup.  Rich and velvety, comforting and delicious, I would beg, borrow and steal to get an invite when Ya-Ya was making the soup for dinner.  She even gave me her recipe and while I could make a mean Lemon Rice Soup, it never was close to being as good as hers.

Expanding waist lines and cholesterol levels have driven me to do the unholy - try and make a healthy version, for the slow cooker non-the-less.  I wanted to eliminate the Eggs! and use a complex carb.

This can't go well, right? Wrong!  Now I wouldn't in a million years compare it to hers, but it could stand up to those soups those 24 hour Greek restaurants pump out.

It's healthy, filling, comforting, rich, and delicious!

Ingredients:
5 Cups Water
10 Teaspoons Wildtree Chicken Bouillon
3/4 Cup Bulgur Wheat
1/4 Cup Yellow Corn Meal
1/2 Cup Non-Fat Greek Plain Yogurt
1 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Pepper
2 Teaspoons Wildtree Smokey Bacon Grapeseed Oil
1 cup Rotisserie Chicken
1 1/2 Lemons

Method of Preparation:

Combined water,bouillon, bulgur, salt, and pepper in your slow cooker.  I used a 2 quart slower cooker for this recipe.  Cook on high for 2 hours.

Add cornmeal, yogurt, chicken and oil.  Squeeze Lemons and add juice.  Stir well to incorporate new ingredients. Cover and cook for 1 more hour on low.

I added left over rotisserie chicken because I wasn't sure of the cook time while I made it.  I think it is the best way to go with cooking in the slow cooker for this recipe.

I use Wildtree products in all my recipes.  You could definitely sub, by why would you want to do that?  Wildtree is all natural, GMO and preservative free!

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Cheesy Bulgur Garlic Broccoli Chicken Bake

So my first foray into cooking at work with my cute little slow cooker was a raging success!  This recipe was absolutely delicious!  The air was filled with cheesy garlic goodness all morning and I looked on with pity to those that were eating a boring sandwich or greasy take-out.

Bulgur (or cracked wheat) has long been a favorite of mine.  A complex carb that is 100% whole wheat, bulgur  is a good source of fiber, protein, iron and vitamin B-6.   If you haven't tried it please do!  I sub rice with it all the time, and now when I do eat rice it seems so unsubstantial.

Cheesy Bulgur Garlic Broccoli Chicken Bake

Ingredients:

Chicken - marinate this for at least 2 hours or freeze in individual freezer bags and take out the night before :)  I buy a pound of chicken, cube it into nugget size, and make 4 pint sized bags for the freezer.

3 oz chicken - cubed

1/2 teaspoon Wildtree Garlic and Herb Blend

1/2 teaspoon Wildtree Roasted Garlic Grapeseed Oil

Sauce - I put these ingredients in first and stir.  It will not totally incorporate, but will work itself out while cooking

1/2 cup skim milk

1/2 cup Wildtree Kidz Cheese

1/2 cup water

1 1/2 teaspoons Wildtree Vegetable Bouillon

The rest -  add this to your sauce mixture and give it a good stir

1/4 cup Bulgur Wheat

1 cup broccoli

After mixing your sauce and the rest of the ingredients, place chicken on top.  Cover slow cooker and cook on low for 6 hours, or on low for 3 hours and turn to high for 1 hour.  Both methods worked fine for me, so it depends on how much time you have before lunch.  Just be sure your chicken reaches 165 degrees :)  

I stirred everything together after 3 hours.

This was such a great lunch, and I ended up eating it for two days.  The bulgur is so filling I could not eat it all in one setting!

You may notice I use Wildtree products.  You most certainly can find replacements for them I'm sure, but since they use no gmo's, preservatives or artificial ingredients they are the way to go for me.  Oh, and I also sell them so with my demonstrator discount it's a no brainer for me :)

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