This Slow Cooker Chicken and Potatoes is full of tender chicken, flavorful potatoes, and fresh baby carrots. If you are looking for a healthy and simple meal to serve your family on busy weeknights this is the recipe for you.
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❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
- You only need simple ingredients to make this creamy ranch crockpot chicken and potatoes. So you don't have to worry about spending a ton at the store.
- One great thing about this recipe is that you can serve it as a complete meal if you want to save a little effort in the kitchen or you can add your favorite side dishes with it.
- The crockpot does all the work which means this is an easy meal to make on a busy day.
🧾 Ingredient List
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- baby red potatoes
- baby carrots
- boneless skinless chicken breast
- cream of chicken soup
- water or milk
- dry ranch seasoning mix
- dried minced onions
- black pepper
- paprika
- salt
- unsalted butter
🍲 Equipment
🔪 Instructions
This is an overview of the recipe. The full instructions are below in the recipe card.
Step 1: Add the potatoes and carrots to the bottom of the slow cooker.
Step 2: Then place the chicken breasts on top of the potatoes.
Step 3: In a mixing bowl stir together the soup, water, ranch seasoning, minced onions, black pepper, paprika, and salt. Pour the mixture over the top of the chicken.
Step 4: Top the mixture with the pats of butter.
Step 5: Slow cook on low for 6 to 7 hours or on high for 3 to 4 hours or until the chicken is cooked through.
Step 6: Shred with two forks and then serve.
👩🏻🍳Eileen's Tips for Success
- For easy clean up when you are making this crockpot chicken potatoes and carrots use a slow cooker liner. I love using them on busy nights when I don't want a lot of scrubbing.
- For a fresh pop of color and tasty flavor garnish with fresh parsley and a sprinkle of parmesan cheese.
- This one-pot meal can be enjoyed just as it is or you can serve it over a bed of noodles or cooked rice. This recipe is so flexible!
📋 Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, one of the best things about this easy dinner recipe is that you can add all the raw ingredients right into the slow cooker and let it do the work.
I prefer to cook chicken on low as it becomes more tender when you cook it that way. However, if you are in a hurry you can cook it on high for 3 to 4 hours or until the chicken is tender.
Absolutely, if you forgot to thaw the chicken overnight, there's no need to worry you can use frozen chicken for this recipe.
You may just need to add an additional hour to the cooking time.
📖 Variations
Do you want to change up this recipe? Here are some ways that you increase the flavor of this dish.
- Change up the chicken: Instead of boneless skinless chicken breasts, use skinless chicken thighs. In a pinch, you could also use skin-on chicken thighs.
- Chicken tenderloins will also work for this recipe.
- Give it a flavor punch: You can add even more flavor to this crock pot recipe by using onion powder, garlic powder, or even Italian seasoning to the recipe.
- Cream of Soup: Out of cream of chicken soup? Don't fret, use cream of mushroom soup or even cream of celery soup.
- Cream of Soup: I've got a homemade cream of chicken soup that is easy to prepare if you prefer homemade condensed soup.
- Italian Dressing Packet: Change up the flavors of this simple recipe by switching out the ranch dressing packet for an Italian dressing mix.
- Water: Low-sodium chicken broth can be used in lieu of water.
❄️ Make ahead, storage, and freezer tips
Make ahead: If you want to save a little time in the kitchen in the morning feel free to assemble the ingredients in the vessel of the slow cooker and store it in the refrigerator covered with the lid. When you are ready to cook, place the vessel into the slow cooker and turn it on.
Storage: Store leftovers of this chicken in a covered airtight container in the refrigerator for 2-3 days.
Freezing: You can freeze the leftover chicken. However, I don't recommend freezing the potatoes and carrots as they will be mushy when thawed.
Reheating: Reheat single servings in the microwave for 1-2 minutes. Or you can reheat the entire batch in a saucepan on the stovetop until warm all the way through.
🥣 Serving Suggestions
These Oven Roasted Green Beans are my favorite easy recipe to make with this hearty meal. I love the pop of green color and fresh taste that they bring to the table.
My family loves it when I serve this slow cooker chicken and cream of chicken soup with a bread side dish like these Homemade Sweet Hawaiian Rolls. They are fluffy and light. They turn out perfect every time you make them.
If you enjoy a sweet treat after dinner, whip up this Lemon Cake Roll recipe. It's sweet, tangy, and always a crowd favorite.
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📖 Recipe
Slow Cooker Chicken and Potatoes
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Ingredients
- 2 pounds baby red potatoes cleaned and cut in half
- 1 cup baby carrots Note 1
- 2 pounds chicken breast boneless and skinless
- 2 (10.5) ounce cans, cream of chicken soup
- 1 cup water
- 1 (1) ounce package, dry ranch seasoning mix
- 1 teaspoon dried minced onions
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 4 Tablespoons unsalted butter cut into pieces
Instructions
- Spray the cooking vessel of a slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray.
- In the bottom of the slow cooker, place the potatoes and carrots.
- Place the chicken breast on top of the carrots.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, stir together the soup, water, ranch seasoning, minced onions, black pepper, paprika, and salt. Pour the mixture over the chicken.
- Top the mixture with the pats of butter.
- Place the lid on the slow cooker and cook on low for 6 to 7 hours or until the chicken can be shredded and the potatoes are tender.
- Use two forks or meat shredders to shred the chicken.
- Stir the ingredients together. Taste for seasoning, if needed, adjust seasoning. Ready to serve.
