Savory Crockpot Chicken With Vegetables

Total Time: 3 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 whole chicken, cut up
• 2 tablespoons canola oil
• 2 large onions
• 5 small potatoes
• 5 carrots
• 1 head garlic
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 tomato, ripe whole
• 1/4 cup dry wine
• 1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
• 1 cup boiling water

Recipe

• 1 remove skin from thighs and drumsticks, leave the skin on the breasts.
• 2 wash and dry the chicken (i use an old towel) and sprinke with salt and pepper.
• 3 chop onion, carrot and potato coarsly.
• 4 wash the garlic head and trim a bit off the top and bottom without breaking it apart.
• 5 heat the oil well and lightly brown the onion on a strong flame in a large shallow skillet or sautage.
• 6 add the carrots, and continue to cook until carrots get a bit of a golden edge.
• 7 turn on the slow cooker on high and set for 3 hours, then transfer the onions and carrots to it.
• 8 sprinke some salt and pepper over the vegetables and give them a stir.
• 9 add bayleaves, garlic and tomato.
• 10 without washing the pan from the vegetables, brown the chicken pieces in it.
• 11 transfer the chicken to the slow cooker.
• 12 discard fat from the pan.
• 13 pour the wine in the pan while pan is still hot and transfer the the liquid into the slow cooker.
• 14 sprinke paprika over chicken.
• 15 add boiling water carefully on the side so the paprika doesn't wash off the chicken.