Cafe Rio Like Shredded Chicken

What you need:

4 to 6 boneless skinless chicken breasts

1 can Fresca

8 ounces Zesty Italian salad dressing

1 tablespoon cumin

1 tablespoon chili powder
crock pot

Salad Ingredients and Toppings:

Cilantro Rice (see recipe listed below)
Shredded Romaine lettuce

Diced tomatoes

Black beans (drained)

Shredded cheese

Chopped green onion

Avocado

Salsa

Sour Cream

Flour tortillas (I like to get the kind that haven't been cooked yet

and heat them up on the pancake griddle right before serving.  Then they're

fresh and delicious. You can get white or wheat flour).

What to do:

1. Place chicken breasts in crock pot.

2. Pour Fresca over chicken.

3. Mix Zesty Italian dressing, cumin and chili powder.

4. Pour dressing mixture over chicken and put the lid on.
This is completely optional; I also sprinkled the chicken with Tone's Citrus Grill seasonings.

5. Let cook for 6 to 8 hours.

6. While chicken is cooking; prepare a recipe of Cilantro Salsa Verde Rice(instructions are listed at the bottom of this post) to use on salad or burrito.

7. Shred chicken right in the crock pot and it is ready to make an imitation 
Cafe Rio burrito or salad.

8. Cook flour tortillas on pancake griddle or fry pan and melt cheese on top of cooked tortilla.

9.  Start piling with what you like.  I do it in this order; tortilla(with melted shredded cheese on it), rice, beans, shredded chicken, a little more shredded cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, green onion, salsa and avocado.

10. We topped with Sweet Vidalia Onion vinaigrette.

My family really liked this meal.  The chicken had a great flavor and was moist and delicious.
What's not to like about an imitation Cafe Rio salad.  In fact, I crave these almost weekly.
It was really best fresh out of the cooker.  When we reheated as leftovers it had dried out a bit and wasn't as good as it is fresh out of the slow cooker.  The leftover meat would be great in quesadillas or tacos.  This meal is a great crowd pleaser and good for a large group.  If you like Cafe Rio food you'll like this.  I found these recipes on sixsistersstuff.com and gave it my own twist by adding the Fresca and citrus grill seasonings.

Cafe Rio Cilantro Rice Recipe:
What you need:

 2 cups uncooked brown rice
 2 cups chopped cilantro
 1 cup salsa verde (green salsa)
1 bunch green onions
 4 cups of water
 A Pinch of Salt

Wash and chop the cilantro. Mix the cilantro with 2 cups of water and pour in the pan for cooking the rice. Add two more cups of water, the salt, Salsa Verde, and onion. Bring to a boil. Stir in the rice in the boiling water. Cover and turn down heat to very low; steam for 30 minutes. Makes about 10 servings.

OR

 You can do this in your rice cooker like I did and follow the rice and water quantities as called for in the rice cooker instruction book,then just add the cilantro, salsa verde and green onions as listed above.  I did my rice this way and it turned out perfect (sorry, I think we were all so ready to eat I forgot to take a picture of the rice). 

 That's what happens when you work up an appetite doing yard work. I promise next time I won't be in such 

a big hurry to eat and will take the picture.  This is definitely a recipe I will use again and again.