Hawaiian Haystacks

Some how our family missed out on this "Mormon" traditional meal.   The only time I even really remember eating these was once at Bear Lake when Aunt Dorothy made them.  Anyway I thought I would give them a try today.  I wanted something easy, that I could do in the crock pot and also gluten free since Glen's dad was coming for dinner.  Anyway after looking at several recipes that all seemed pretty bland I decided to just adapted a couple, so here is what I came up with.

3 Frozen Chicken Breast in crock-pot

1/4 C melted Butter then stir in 1 Chicken Gravy Packet then dump on top.

 Cook on low for 6-8 hours.

Then, I took out the chicken and shreded it, which took 2 mins becasue it was so soft it was just falling apart.  The trick with the crockpot is to not add water or alot of liquid when cooking meat.  Your meat turns out way better with minimal water.  Also I usually don't cook with butter, but I've found with chicken in the crock pot the addition of a little butter makes the chicken WAY better (soft, not dry, etc)  Anyway put shredded chicken back and add  1 can cream of Chicken Soup and 1 can Evaporated milk (this gives it a nice creamy consistency).  Other recipes said 1 can chicken broth, but that just sounded to runny, so I went with evaportated milk, which I love in that potato soup so I decided to try it.  It worked!   

Stir and put on warm while you are getting things ready to serve.

I threw some Thai rice in the rice cooker and cut up tomaotes, pineapple, green pepper, tomatoes, cheese, coconut and celery and chow mein noodles if you want.

Anyway I liked this sauce, it was really good.  They were a hit, so I guess we are adopting the tradition.  It is a good Sunday meal for when you are in the mood to be a lazy cook!  Clean-up is really easy and not a hard meal to put together! :)  So I thought I would share it.  Sorry if is confusing to see the recipe among all my chit chat, but you are all smart you can figure it out! :)