with water and add salt. bring to a boil and simmer for long enough to finish cooking the chicken, maybe 10-15 minutes. you don't want to cook it to death, but this is not an exact science, or like trying to cook a steak to medium rare.
note: if your chicken is not frozen just skip to the putting it into the pot and cover with water part.
while chicken is cooking you can cook up ingredients you would like to put into the shredded chicken. you don't have to put anything into the shredded chicken if you like. i like to add some fried onions and maybe a hot pepper and 