Crockpot Chicken

[Starbrite]

I need a good easy idea for some boneless chicken breasts in the crock pot. I'm sick of the same old dinner.

No veggies, peppers, onions please - the kids are very picky about which ones they eat, so we'll have those on the side.

Thanks!

 

[elcodfish]

Do your kids like salsa? I usually do crockpot chicken with drained and washed black beans, corn, salsa, so taco seasoning and a little water, but you could do chicken with salsa and water.

 

[trinchick]

I can vouch for this one:

Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings

4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
2 tablespoons butter
2 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed cream of chicken soup
1 onion, finely diced
2 (10 ounce) packages refrigerated biscuit dough, torn into pieces

Place the chicken, butter, soup, and onion in a slow cooker, and fill with enough water to cover.
Cover, and cook for 5 to 6 hours on High. About 30 minutes before serving, place the torn biscuit dough in the slow cooker. Cook until the dough is no longer raw in the center.

 

[jessp1021]

Here is a delish idea and my kids go nuts over it!!

Cheesy Chicken:

mix 1 can cheddar cheese soup with 1 can cream of chicken soup and 1.5 cans of water together in crockpot and place chicken breasts or even chicken tenders in and mix it up..cook on 5/6 hrs on high

Once you are done cooking make a box of pasta (we prefer the spirals) and poor crockpot mixture over top, put in oven for 5-10min to toast the top a little! Tastes like homemade chicken noodle soup the next day and usually makes enough leftovers for 2 days!

 

[Tinkerbell3014]

I can vouch for this one:

Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings

4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
2 tablespoons butter
2 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed cream of chicken soup
1 onion, finely diced
2 (10 ounce) packages refrigerated biscuit dough, torn into pieces

Place the chicken, butter, soup, and onion in a slow cooker, and fill with enough water to cover.
Cover, and cook for 5 to 6 hours on High. About 30 minutes before serving, place the torn biscuit dough in the slow cooker. Cook until the dough is no longer raw in the center.

I second this one; a family favorite!

 

[MineMail]

I find that white meat comes out stringy if you overcook it, so watch your time. I've been using chicken thighs and legs in the crockpot lately and leftovers are few and far between.

Pulled Chicken (or pork or beef) is an easy recipe.

Put a cup of bottled barbeque sauce in the crockpot with some garlic powder and dehydrated onion flakes along with a few shakes of chili powder. Add the chicken, coating with sauce and cook on low for 4-6 hours. You can turn it occasionally or don't - doesn't matter too much. Remove the meat from the pot and use two forks to "pull" the meat, add a bit of fresh barbeque sauce.

Serve with Martin's Potato Dinner Rolls, a vegetable (corn on the cob is good) and au gratin potatoes or cole slaw/potato salads.

You can do the same thing with cut-up chicken parts. Skin adds a lot of fat that renders off, so the sauce doesn't stick as well. Just pull the cooked parts out, brush with fresh sauce and broil/grill quickly to carmelize the sauce.

I also make chicken and potatoes in the crock pot. Put cup-up chicken, quartered potatoes, large diced onion, and a 14-oz can of crushed tomatoes in the crock pot. Season to taste with salt, pepper, basil, and oregano. Cook on low 6-8 hours. (I prefer this roasted at 350°F for 50 minutes, turning occasionally and basting with the pan juices.) Since your kids don't like onion, dice and freeze it, then defrost and crush it - the onions will melt into the sauce. Or, use onion powder for flavor.

 

[MrsPete]

Super easy:

Buttermilk Chicken

Mix together in crock pot one can of Cream of Chicken Soup with Herbs (do not use plain C/O chicken -- this isn't the easiest thing to find, but the effort is worthwile) and one can of buttermilk.

Add chicken pieces, squishing them around a bit so that the soup mixture surrounds all the pieces.

On top, add chopped red onion.

Cook, serve over rice. Noodles would do.

 

[LoriKutchey]

Mrs. Pete, that sounds wonderful!! How long do you cook the chicken at? High or Low?

 

[HM]

How about just adding some BBQ sauce with your chicken pieces? Easy!

 

[MrsPete]

Mrs. Pete, that sounds wonderful!! How long do you cook the chicken at? High or Low?

Low, let it go all day while I'm at work.

An extra hint: If you can't use up the buttermilk, freeze it in ice cube trays and store the cubes in a ziplock bag. I wouldn't do this with drink-able milk, but for buttermilk that's intended for cooking, it's a great way to save a perishable-but-seldom-used ingredient.

 

[Minnesota!]

I take a whole chicken, clean it, throw some butter, lemon juice (throw a few lemon wedges in the cavity), sprinkle on some garlic, salt and pepper, then cook it in the CP on some foil balls. Great flavor. You could also replace the foil balls with potatoes.

And my kids also love when I use BSCB, some BBQ sauce, and a little water. cook all day, shred, serve as bbq chicken sandwiches. Easy peasy. Next day with leftovers I make BBQ chicken pizza.

 

[LoriKutchey]

Thanks

 

[MEM]

You can also pour a cup or more of bottled Italian salad dressing (or your favorite pasta red sauce) over the chicken breasts, cook for 6-8 hours and serve over pasta. If using the Italian dressing, I often add a bag of baby carrots and serve over brown rice.

Check out Stephanie O'Dea's crockpot365 website - she has 3 kids, some of whom do not each certain vegetables and one of whom is gluten-intolerant. Her recipes include her kids' reactions to the various recipes.

 

[jedijill]

www.skinnytaste.com has a bunch of healthy, crockpot chicken recipes. Today's recipe is for buffalo lettuce chicken wraps.

Jill in CO

 

[Disneyluvr]

Here is a delish idea and my kids go nuts over it!!

Cheesy Chicken:

mix 1 can cheddar cheese soup with 1 can cream of chicken soup and 1.5 cans of water together in crockpot and place chicken breasts or even chicken tenders in and mix it up..cook on 5/6 hrs on high

Once you are done cooking make a box of pasta (we prefer the spirals) and poor crockpot mixture over top, put in oven for 5-10min to toast the top a little! Tastes like homemade chicken noodle soup the next day and usually makes enough leftovers for 2 days!

My kids LOVE this. Only I do not add any water, just the cheese and cream of chicken soups and I put in some garlic powder. When it is done I serve it over rice. quick, easy, YUMMY

 

[The Princess]

I can vouch for this one:

Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings

4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
2 tablespoons butter
2 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed cream of chicken soup
1 onion, finely diced
2 (10 ounce) packages refrigerated biscuit dough, torn into pieces

Place the chicken, butter, soup, and onion in a slow cooker, and fill with enough water to cover.
Cover, and cook for 5 to 6 hours on High. About 30 minutes before serving, place the torn biscuit dough in the slow cooker. Cook until the dough is no longer raw in the center.

I'm going to try this one tomorrow it sounds sooooo good!!

 

[ccgirl]

We're trying to eat more healthy so I'm trying to stay away from the cream of (insert name here) soups.

One recipe my children love is boneless chicken breasts with salsa. So simple and I use the leftovers in enchiladas.

Another one is chicken with pasta sauce and then you melt fat free shredded cheese at the end for chicken parm.

I have a programmable crockpot. I put my chicken in frozen and cook on low for 3 hours. It then stays on the "warm" cycle for aout 4 more hours and is done just perfectly.

 

[akclayton]

I second the dumplings recipe pp posted. Delicious. My hubby wasn't a huge fan of the biscuit dough. So instead of adding the biscuit dough, I left the ingredients alone and boiled egg noodles and we had that with the egg noodles. It's scrumptious.

This one is good as well..

8 bacon slices
8 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 (10 oz) cans roasted garlic cream of mushroom soup
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup flour (all purpose or gluten free blend)
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions

* Place the bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-low heat until some of the fat is rendered. Be sure that the bacon is still pliable and not crisp. Drain on paper towels. If you use this method, reduce the flour to 1/4 cup. Or don’t cook the bacon and proceed with the recipe.
* Then wrap one slice of bacon around each boneless chicken breast and place in a 4-5 quart crockpot.
* In medium bowl, combine condensed soups, sour cream, and flour and mix with wire whisk to blend. Pour over chicken.
* Cover crockpot and cook on low for 6-8 hours until chicken and bacon are thoroughly cooked. You may want to remove the chicken and beat the sauce with a wire whisk so it is very well blended.
* Pour sauce over chicken.
* If you have a newer crockpot, check the chicken at 5 hours. The internal temp should be 160 -170 degrees F.

 

[RumpleMom]

I just made this:
4 boneless chicken breasts
1 cup chicken broth mixed with 1 packet taco seasoning

Cooked all day on low. Used it for chicken tacos.

 

[PinballFamily]

Recently found this one on Pinterest and have made it a few times since after tinkering a bit with it. Everyone - even my super picky eaters have been scraping their plates. Who knew? A bazillion million calories, I'm sure, but as an easy peasy once-in-awhile meal - I'm happy!

Four boneless chicken breasts (mine are always frozen)
Two packets of powdered Good Seasons Italian salad dressing
Two blocks (8 oz each) cream cheese (can soften it a bit before using - can use low fat type, if you want)
Two cans of cream of chicken soup (could use cream of (your choice), I'm sure)
1/2 cup of water

Dump everything into the crockpot. Cook on low for 4-5 hours. Stir maybe once an hour, if you can, just to mix everything up and break apart the frozen chicken if any are stuck together (mine always are!). Then I shred the chicken into bite-sized pieces right in the crockpot using a couple of forks. Leave in the crockpot on low for another 45 minutes to an hour or so, just to let the pieces soak up more sauce. YUM! We serve it over brown or white rice. Serves 4-6.