healthy recipes
chicken
slow cooker
dinner
sweet potatoes
diet
easy
chicken thighs
This video is unavailable because we were unable to load a message from our sponsors.

If you are using ad-blocking software, please disable it and reload the page.
Playing Whole30 Slow-Cooker Bacon-Mushroom Chicken with Sweet Potatoes

Whole30 Slow-Cooker Bacon-Mushroom Chicken with Sweet Potatoes

Come Tour David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris' STUNNING Home Ga…

Farmer Lee Jones Shares His Favorite Fall Vegetables—Including C…

How to Make Pasta with Pumpkin, Brown Butter, Crispy Sage and Nu…

How to Make Raw Zucchini Salad | David Burtka

Rachael's Reaction to Billy Crudup's Preview of "The Morning Sho…

How to Make a Vermouth Spritz | John Cusimano

Stop Everything and Listen to "Buongiorno Baby"—the Song John Co…

How to Make Bistecca (Porterhouse) with Walnut Salsa Verde and C…

Rachael Reveals Her Favorite Place to Eat in Tuscany, Italy | Q …

What's In Our Meal Bag? 3 Sweet Stories from Viewers Who Tried R…

Brooke Shields Tearfully Recounts Devastating Accident + Leg Inj…

How to Make Roasted Honey-Soy Green Beans | Rachael Ray

We Surprise a Mom of 10 (Including 6 Foster Kids!) Who Works So …

How to Make Salt 'n' Pepper Pork or Chicken | Rachael Ray

How to Make Caramel Apple Shortcakes | Grant Melton

How to Make Sausages with Apples and Onions & Charred, Spiced Ca…

Robin Roberts Tearfully Recalls the Emotional Moment Her Sister …

How to Make Easy Grilled Corn with Jalapeño Cilantro Glaze | Sun…

How to Make Sheet Pan Chicken with Rosemary & Grapes | Queer Eye…

Crisp-cooked and crumbled bacon provides a smoky, salty counterpoint to the sweetness of the mashed potatoes in this dish from the Whole30 diet founder Melissa Hartwig.

She recommends looking for Whole30-compliant bacon at natural-foods grocery stores – it won’t contain added sweeteners, nitrates, nitrites, gluten, lactose or MSG.

Learn more about what you should and shouldn't eat on the Whole30 diet here.

Adapted from "The Whole30 Slow Cooker" by Melissa Hartwig. Copyright © 2018 by Melissa Hartwig. Used with permission by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup chicken broth, or chicken bone broth (make sure to get Whole30-compliant product)
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 4 small sweet potatoes, scrubbed and halved lengthwise (about 1 pound total)
  • 1 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 teaspoon black pepper
  • 12 small bone-in chicken thighs, skin removed
  • 3 cups thinly sliced cremini mushrooms
  • 1/2 cup chopped red onion
  • 1 tablespoon coconut oil, melted
  • 3 strips bacon, crisp-cooked and crumbled (make sure to get Whole30-compliant product)
  • Fresh thyme leaves, optional

Yield

Serves: 6

Preparation

In a 6-quart slow cooker, combine the chicken broth and garlic. Place the potatoes, cut sides down, in the cooker. In a small bowl, combine the dried thyme and ½ teaspoon each of the salt and pepper. Place half the chicken thighs, meaty sides up, on the potatoes. Sprinkle with half the thyme mixture. Repeat with remaining chicken and thyme mixture. Add the mushrooms and red onion to the cooker in an even layer.

Cover and cook on low for 6 to 7 hours or on high for 3 to 3½ hours. Remove the chicken and potatoes from the cooker. When cool enough to handle, remove the potato skins. Place the potato flesh in a medium bowl; add the coconut oil and the remaining ¼ teaspoon each salt and pepper. Using a potato masher, mash potatoes until smooth.

Serve the chicken and vegetables with the mashed sweet potatoes and drizzle with the cooking liquid. Top the servings with bacon and, if desired, fresh thyme.