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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.
Vickey says
My ex put peanut butter on his deviled eggs. Made me sick every time he ate them.
Lynne says
I would have stayed loyal if you just hadn’t mentioned American cheese, LOL!. As a child, I put sliced fresh cucumbers on my hamburger in lieu of pickles. Everybody thought I was weird. I loathed pickles and it was useless to point out that they started out as cucumbers.
Darlene says
Can’t wait to try this. Weird food – peanut butter, mayo and grape jelly sandwich. Has to be grape jelly though, nothing else tastes as good.
Laurel McAra says
Use low sodium cream of chicken soup and do not add salt to the chicken at all. There is already enoght sodiom in the stuffing! Tasted wonderful! Thanks for the great recipe.
Tracy says
This looks and sounds delicious! I tried a similar recipe in my pressure cooker and the stuffing had an overly weird consistency, so I’m trying your crockpot one today. YUM!
My weird food pairs…..peanut butter and dill pickle sandwich, peanut butter and potato chip sandwich and I also only put salt on my French toast. No butter, cinnamon and syrup for me. Just salt. Then I quickly take my blood pressure medicine Ü
YVONNE J NIHART says
Sounds so good can’t wait to try it. Maybe serve it with the turkey next Thanksgiving. Oh, a couple of my weird food combos: I make pork and bean sandwiches as well as mashed potato sandwiches. Always start a sandwich with bread and butter then whatever else you want. We were poor growing up. Also like vinegar on my beans.
June says
I also love mashed potatoes on bread and butter, pork and bean sandwiches and sliced orange and yellow sliced onion sandwich. One acid kills the other, but really good.
Karly says
Orange and onion sandwiches – that’s a new one. 🙂
Glenn says
Can one use already cooked (leftover) turkey in this recipe? Would amount of liquid or cook time need to be adjusted?
Karly says
You would need more liquid in the recipe if you used already cooked turkey, but I haven’t tried it so I can’t say how much.
Mary says
Ok wierd food … don’t be grossed out – creamy peanut butter with miracle whip mayo. My brother eats this even still !!! I’ve tried and it’s not bad?
Dianne says
I’ve eaten peanut butter/mayo sandwiches forever…I’m 80 and I love them!!! As for this recipe sounds like a winner just subbing thighs for breasts. Thanks for sharing!!
Anjanette McKinney says
OMG……my Dad use to make me peanut butter and miracle whip sandwiches!!!! Every once in a Great while I make myself one. My family thinks I’m gross……don’t knock it til you’ve tried it!!!
Leigh-Ann says
Could this be done in the insta pot?
Karly says
There are recipes out there for a similar recipe, but I don’t have one on my site. 🙂
Kristin F says
Can I ask what type of stuffing you normally use? I made it with Pepperdine farm cubed stuffing but maybe I should use a different brand next time? The flavor was amazing but it was really soggy for some reason. :(. I’m definitely making it again just not sure what I should do differently next time to dry it up more. I did use a crock pot liner. Do you think that held in too much moisture?
Karly says
I used the Pepperridge Farms stuffing mix as well. I wonder if your chicken just released more juice than mine? You could reduce the amount of chicken broth next time and then add more in toward the end if it looks to dry. I’ve never used a crock pot liner so I can’t say if that might have effected things.
Kristin F says
Thank you so much!!! Definitely going to give your suggestions a try. 🙂
I am loving your website btw!!
Kristin F says
Thank you so much!!! Do you use the cubed bag or the more shredded bag?
Definitely going to give your suggestions a try. 🙂
Karly says
The kind I use is definitely cubed. 🙂
Kristin F says
I made this tonight – it smells amazing by the way! It’s about 30 mins from being at the 4.5 hour mark and it seems really wet – soupy in a way. Is it just bc it hasn’t finished yet? Just not sure how to get it looking like yours ? Any advice/thoughts? I followed the recipe exactly.
Karly says
Hi Kristin! Once it’s all stirred together it shouldn’t be too wet. 🙂 Hope you enjoyed!
Barbara says
Mmm… french fries dipped in chocolate ice cream, yum! Also, I put syrup on biscuits and gravy and sliced American cheese on apple pie. And I’m from the Midwest so I salt any kind of melon. My, this is liberating!
Karly says
I salt melons too and I’ve definitely seen the cheese on pie thing, but never tried it myself.
Gina says
What if you live somewhere the doesn’t have stuffing mix bags? How do you substitute?
Karly says
I’m not sure. I’ve only ever made this with prepackaged stuffing mix.
Bridget says
Hi! Weird question, but I usually make my crockpot recipes the night before so I can just pull it out of the fridge and turn it on before I leave for work in the morning. Can this all be put together the night before, or would the stuffing get weird?
Thanks!
Karly says
I think the stuffing would get weird sitting in the liquid for so long. Sorry – maybe prep the veggies and have them ready to go in the morning? Should cut down on the time quite a bit.
Doug says
Does it make a difference if the chicken is placed on the bottom and the stuffing mixture on top?
Karly says
The chicken releases a lot of juice, so I like to put it on top so the liquid can be soaked up by the stuffing. 🙂