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This crock pot chicken and stuffing is the easiest comfort food you’ll ever make! Toss everything into the slow cooker and let the magic happen!
Alright, so I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I often eat a bowl of Stove Top Stuffing for breakfast.
Hold up. Don’t leave me. I swear I’m not insane.
It’s just, as a kid, I never liked or ate oatmeal, but some days I needed something warm and hearty and…Stove Top Stuffing was there for me, man. And I never outgrew the habit.
Annnnnnyway. Let’s forget I said anything and instead talk about this Crock Pot Chicken and Stuffing, which I swear is really good and totally normal and even though I eat weird things for breakfast sometimes, you can totally trust me.
You don’t trust me anymore, do you?
I’m sure you have some weird food secret that you’ve never shared with the Internet before. I dare you to share it in the comments.
It’ll be like a little support group down there, all of us sharing our weirdness and coming together to stop the hate.
So, back to this slow cooker chicken and stuffing. It’s pure comfort food and it’s tossed together in a flash. Tastes like Thanksgiving dinner without all the work!
Ingredient Notes:
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Stuffing Mix – Keep things simple and just grab a bag of the dried, seasoned cubed stuffing mix from the store! It’s quick and easy and works perfectly.
Chicken – You’ll add some seasoned chicken breasts to the crockpot to slow cook with the stuffing. When it’s all ready, you’ll shred the chicken and stuffing together!
Veggies – I like to add a bit of diced onion and celery to this chicken and stuffing recipe to add some extra flavors and variety!
Soup – You can use canned soup, or try my cream of chicken soup substitute or cream of mushroom soup subtitute) along with some chicken broth!
Seasoning – Ground sage will add lots of wonderful savory flavor to this chicken and stuffing recipe! You’ll also season the chicken breast with some salt and pepper.
What Readers are Saying!
“This has good to be one of the best recipes ever created for a crockpot. First it’s extremely simple to make. Next, it’s solves that ‘I want Thanksgiving dinner, but don’t want to make it conundrum’. Taste….spot on. FINALLY, and maybe the most important bonus of this recipe is the LEFTOVERS…” – Chuck
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How To Make Crockpot Chicken & Stuffing:
Mix: Add a bag of dry stuffing cubes (not Stove Top) to the slow cooker, along with some chopped celery and onion.
Soup: Stir in the cream of chicken soup, a bit of broth, and then season it with a little sage.
Chicken: Season your chicken with salt and pepper (feel free to add additional spices here!) and pop it right on top of the stuffing mix. The juices from the chicken will drip down and add moisture and flavor to the stuffing.
Slow Cook: After preparing the chicken and stuffing ingredients you can cover your crockpot and slow cook on low heat for 4 hours and 30 minutes or until the chicken has cooked through and shreds easily.
Shred the chicken together with the stuffing and serve! This crock pot stuffing and chicken recipe is like Thanksgiving goodness you can eat any time of the year!
Helpful TipS!
I would recommend putting the chicken on top of the other ingredients, not on the bottom!
A lot of readers have tried putting the chicken on the bottom (I have too, it seems like the obvious way to do it), but I don’t love it that way!
The chicken will release a lot of juice and if it’s at the bottom, the stuffing on the bottom is soggy and the stuffing on top is dry.
If you put the chicken on top of the stuffing, the juices will soak down into it and it’ll all come out with the right consistency!
Feel free to increase or decrease the liquids in this recipe to suit your tastes, but I’ve tested it and I think the amount I used is the best!
I recommend that you make this a whole big feast and serve it with my roasted sweet potatoes and pumpkin crunch cake to really bring home that Thanksgiving at random times of the year feel.
Or just be normal and eat it with a salad. Whatevs.
Hope you guys enjoy!
FAQs:
You can keep this recipe stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for about 3 to 4 days. It may get a little soggier over time.
I’ve never tried this recipe using frozen chicken. It could probably work but it may add more liquid than you’d want. I’d recommend using fresh chicken breast!
I used a 6-quart crockpot to make this slow cooked chicken and stuffing!
Crock Pot Chicken and Stuffing
Ingredients
- 14 ounces dried seasoned stuffing cubes
- 1 medium sweet onion diced
- 1/2 cup diced celery
- 20 ounces cream of chicken soup
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon ground sage
- 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1/2 teaspoon salt more to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper more to taste
Instructions
- Spray a slow cooker with non-stick spray.
- Add the stuffing mix, onion, celery, cream of chicken soup, and chicken broth to the slow cooker and stir to combine.
- Sprinkle the sage over the top.
- Lay the chicken breasts on top of the stuffing mixture and season with salt and pepper.
- Cover and cook on low for 4 hours 30 minutes or until chicken cooks through.
- Shred the chicken with two forks or remove to a cutting board and slice into small pieces.
- Stir everything together and serve.
Patricia says
I’m unpinning this recipe. I put this recipe in my instapot slow cooker setting and after 4 1/2 hours, it wasn’t ready. I used the cheaper chicken thighs instead of chicken breast and the thighs were still pink. I tried again and another 4 1/2 hours later the chicken thighs were still pink. I dumped it in my old slow cooker and put it on the keep warm setting. By the time I got home from work the chicken thighs were a little overcooked and the stuffing was mushy.
Karly Campbell says
Hi Patricia, sorry to hear you had issues with this one. I believe the issue is with the Instant Pot, however. It’s pretty well known that the slow cook function on those doesn’t work well at all. From a food safety standpoint, lt was also probably not the safest idea to put undercooked chicken in the slow cooker on the warm setting. Just fyi for the future.
If you try this again, make it in your slow cooker following the instructions given and you might have better luck. 🙂
Jillian says
Looks fantastic, but I don’t have access to premade stuffing mix…do you have a suggestion for that? Would homemade work?
Karly Campbell says
I haven’t tried this with a homemade stuffing mix, but as long as the bread was completely dried out it should work fine!
Helene Magdalena Robinson says
I couldn’t find the recipe for the cream of chicken soup and broth. I am excited to try the recipe and the ease to make it. Thx
Karly Campbell says
Hi Helene! The recipe for the cream of chicken soup is linked right in the recipe card. Here it is again: https://www.bunsinmyoven.com/cream-of-chicken-soup-substitute/
I don’t have a recipe for chicken broth.