These Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken Taco Cups are a perfect appetizer or party food, but use the easy salsa chicken filling to make regular chicken tacos, burritos, quesadillas any night of the week!

I love these little slow cooker chicken taco cups- they are absolutely adorable, packed with flavor, and easy to make- meaning that they are perfect for just about any kind of parties.

The crockpot chicken filling is so simple to make, and has its roots based on a strange, but notoriously delicious, combination back in my hometown. If you’ve been a longtime follower of this blog, you’ve heard me make mention of a local chain restaurant called Hacienda in my Smothered Wet Burrito recipe.

Well the wet burritos and skillet cookies aren’t the only things that they’re known for.

I don’t know how, or why, or who first decided to start mixing together their smooth, restuarant-style salsa with a side of ranch dressing (why does a Mexican restaurant even have ranch dressing in the kitchen?), but it caught on like wildfire. Nowadays, you’d be hard pressed to go into that place and not see a bowl of creamy, pinkish salsa on the table.

I’ve been thinking about translating that recipe into something on the blog for a long time, but mixing together salsa and ranch hardly seems like 1. something that people are looking for and 2. that people would want to try and 3. it hardly qualifies as a recipe.

So I decided to take that food memory and turn it into a crockpot chicken recipe, ending up with an amazing shredded chicken recipe that is perfect for tacos, burritos, quesadillas or nachos- but it really shines in these chicken taco cups.

The filling itself is a little bit spicy (and you can easily adjust the heat to your desired levels based on what salsa you use), with a creaminess from ranch dressing, and a crunch from fresh green onion. The filling takes about 5 minuets of actual prep and work, making it perfect to throw together and leave it be while you do more important things.

Dress it up with whatever you want- I did these with a dollop of sour cream, green onions, sliced jalepenos for heat, avocado and fresh tomato, but the sky’s the limit? Salsa, pico de Gallo, more cheese, guacamole- the world is your oyster.

What you need for these Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken Tacos:

[easyazon_link identifier=”B008YEXC22″ locale=”US” tag=”gogogogo03-20″]A Slow Cooker[/easyazon_link]. I love my multi cooker, but any will do.

[easyazon_link identifier=”B013TERDO4″ locale=”US” tag=”gogogogo03-20″]Muffin Tins[/easyazon_link]- you’ll need 2 24-well muffin tins

A [easyazon_link identifier=”B003922L12″ locale=”US” tag=”gogogogo03-20″]hand mixer[/easyazon_link]- my secret hack for shredding chick

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