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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.
Sandy Purcell says
Peanut butter sandwich with red onion, can be white onion in a pinch, learned it from my dad.
Jessica says
I tried this recipe and it was DELICIOUS! My husband loved it, too and requested it again. One question, if I add more chicken, how much cooking time should I add? Thank you!
Leah says
I am making this for dinner tonight! Weird food confession. I dip soft chocolate chip cookies in ketchup. My MeeMee used to eat peanut butter and lettuce sandwiches, bless her memory =)
Elizabeth says
Made it today for dinner! Big hit. I recommend biscuits with it, though, as this would’ve been a perfect sandwich! Weird Food Confession: I turn everything into a sandwich – even Thanksgiving dinner! I think next time I’m going to switch chicken for a turkey breast. So good! Thanks for the recipe.
Karly says
A stuffing sandwich – sounds good to me!
Tracy says
Oh dear lord…. I was going to make this recipe tomorrow, so I did a quick scan of the directions and comments beforehand… and I am in HEAVEN to have stumbled on the weird food convention going on here!!!! I AM VALIDATED!!!!! To me, I don’t eat anything too weird, other than fermented foods, which all of my friends think are weird… but I certainly felt like I was the only one eating raw potato slices (or basically anything else on earth) with tons of salt sprinkled on, as a kid. My hubby is the weirdo with his childhood treat — applesauce spread on buttered bread and eaten as a sandwich. NO THANK YOU!!! I can’t wait to continue reading and hear what others share!!! I feel like I found my tribe!!???
Karly says
Hahaha! The weird food convention… 🙂
Coleen Thompson says
My weirdness…. 2 pancakes with an over-easy egg between them. Then spread peanut butter on top, sprinkle with a few diced onions and syrup over all! How weird is that?? LOL
Karly says
I was with you until I got to the peanut butter. Then the onion…you might win this one! 🙂
Coleen Thompson says
LOL As my mom always said, don’t knock it until you try it! My sister loved this and I thought she was nuts until I tried it!
Veronica says
Tried this today and it was AWFUL. Total waste of food.
Karly says
Sorry you didn’t enjoy this one.
Amber says
Awesome recipe. Growing up I didn’t eat meat and I hate peanut butter so my mom made me cream cheese sandwiches with celery salt ! I still love it
Karly says
That sounds amazing!! I’ll have to try that one. 🙂
Angie says
My weird foods are pot pie with cottage cheese and I also love peanut butter sandwiches with Doritos on it.
Karly says
Peanut butter and Doritos…never thought of that one. 😉
Linda McCarty says
Loved this! The stove top doesn’t seem to weird. I like Campbell’s soup for breakfast. More like this? Yes, please.
Susan-Jane Berson says
This recipe looks awesome especially since I ab s olutely adore stuffing, we hich I make in the turkey. But, I wonder if I could adapt your recipe to use my stuffiness instead. It’s an old fashioned bread stuffing. I take 2 challah’s (egg bread) and grind real fine in food processor. Then in a large skillet using sewwt whipped butter, I saute 3 med chipped sweet onions, sea s oning v with Lowry’s seasoning salt and lemon pepper and sweet Hungarian paprika until onions are carmelized and salt tar ting ti stick to pan. I deglaze pan with 2 cups home made chicken broth a ND simmer too reduce for 5 min or so. I make a well in bowl with bread and add 2 eggs then onion mixture and stir everything together. So if I put that mixture in the crockpot with the chicken breasts would tioohathat work? Also weird eating fetishist is cold next day mac and did cheese with sugar. Also I love chicken salade in with chopped onions, mayo ketchup sweet peas and chopped dried dates and a teas of sugar. When I was a kid I used to make white bread and butter sandwiches with andpplesauce and sugar.
Karly says
Hi Susan!
Sounds like a delicious stuffing recipe! I’m not sure if it would work in the slow cooker or not, but it certainly sounds like it’d be worth trying! You don’t want the mixture to be as moist as it would be in the oven as the chicken will release juices and the moisture doesn’t escape in the slow cooker like it does in the oven. I’d reduce the chicken broth down to a cup and give that a try.
Patricia says
I am cooking this as I type this. Didn’t have Cx so I’m using turkey. I’ll let you know.. Weird club confessions .
Orange pieces dipped in mayo…..chips and cho. milk….post thanksgiving turkey, dressing, GB cass. , mayo,and cranberry sauce (the kind with real cranberries, nuts, celery, + oranges) on white bread .
I also like bananas with Nutella.
Karly says
Bananas and Nutella totally don’t belong in the weird club!! 🙂
Hope you enjoyed the chicken and stuffing.
Patricia says
I loved it. !
Bev says
I’ve been making a similar recipe for years and I put the sliced American Cheese on too! This is soooooo good!
Robin says
Made this a few weeks ago and it was so yummy..Going to make it again… Love it…
Catherine says
Slow cooker should be set on low or high???? (Slow cooker chicken and stuffing)
Karly says
Low. 🙂
Bri says
Can we do it on high and decrease cooking time?
Karly says
I would worry about the stuffing burning.