Slow-Cooker Chicken With Bacon, Mushrooms, and Onions

(wow, that's a horrible picture, this is really good though!)

Source: Real Simple

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 8+ hours

Ingredients:
1/2 pound bacon, diced
1 4-6 lb chicken, cut up (I buy the chicken pieces already cut and packaged)
1/2 cup dry white wine
8 oz small white mushrooms
1 cup frozen small white pearl onions
6 garlic cloves, chopped or the jarred stuff is what i use
1 T dried rosemary leaves
1 tsp kosher salt
1/4 cup water
2 T cornstarch

Directions:
1. Cook the bacon in a large skillet until crisp. With a slotted spoon, transfer to a 6 quart slow cooker. Pour off all but a light coating of fat from the pan. Add the chicken and brown over med-high heat. Transfer to the crock pot.
2. Pour the wine into the pan and scrape up any brown bits. Add contents of pan to crock pot along with mushrooms, onions, garlic, rosemary and salt.
3. Cover and cook on LOW for 8 hours.
4. Pour some of sauce from crock pot into a saucepan. Combine water and cornstarch and stir into the sauce. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly, until the sauce thickens, about 5 minutes. Serve as gravy over chicken.

Verdict: 
This was one of the more labor intensive crock pot meals I've made (I may have been late to work this morning due to the prep - although starting out with frozen chicken didn't help the time either). But this was delicious! It was nice to finally have a chicken meal that didn't turn into a soup. I served with mashed potatoes (the pre-made refrigerated kind). We all loved it. It makes a lot, enough for 2 meals at least. And I'm not sure it would freeze well, so be prepared for leftovers. Or use a smaller chicken.

I'll definitely make this again, but next time i'll probably dice the bacon the night before and defrost my chicken beforehand.