{"id":1170,"date":"2025-03-16T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/slow-cooker-jalapeno-popper-chicken-taquitos\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T02:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T02:29:59","slug":"slow-cooker-jalapeno-popper-chicken-taquitos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/slow-cooker-jalapeno-popper-chicken-taquitos\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Cooker Jalapeno Popper Chicken Taquitos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3-4 chicken breasts, frozen or thawed<br \/>\n8 ounces cream cheese<br \/>\n1\/3 cup jarred whole or sliced jalape\u00f1os, roughly chopped<br \/>\n1 teaspoon garlic powder<br \/>\n1 teaspoon salt<br \/>\n1 teaspoon cumin<br \/>\n16 taco-sized tortillas<br \/>\n1 1\/2 cups shredded cheese<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAdd chicken, 1\/2 cup water, cream cheese, jalape\u00f1os, garlic powder, salt, and cumin to crockpot. Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours or on high 3-4 hours. (lesser times are for thawed chicken, greater times for frozen chicken)<\/p>\n<p>Minutes before serving, preheat the oven to 425 and grease a baking sheet with cooking spray. Use two forks to shred chicken and stir it in with the other contents of the crockpot.<br \/>\nHeat tortillas in the microwave for a few seconds to soften them up. Sprinkle cheese in the middle of each tortilla. Top cheese with 2-3 tablespoons of shredded chicken mixture. Roll tortillas tightly into a log-shape taquito.<\/p>\n<p>Place taquitos on baking sheet and spray heavily with cooking spray. Bake 10-15 minutes until cheese is melty and tortillas begin to brown. (For crispier taquitos, switch the oven to broil for 2-3 minutes)<br \/>\nServe warm with dipping sauces and toppings if desired (like <a href=\"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/jalapeno-kettle-chip-crusted-chicken-with-jalapeno-ranch\/\">jalapeno ranch<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lecremedelacrumb.com\/2014\/09\/slow-cooker-jalapeno-popper-chicken-taquitos.html\">Original<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3-4 chicken breasts, frozen or thawed 8 ounces cream cheese 1\/3 cup jarred whole or sliced jalape\u00f1os, roughly chopped 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cumin 16 taco-sized tortillas 1 1\/2 cups shredded cheese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}