Our Favorite Quick and Savory Chicken Slow Cooker Recipes

Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes: Herb Chicken with Mushrooms

This healthy slow cooker recipe will definitely be a family favorite dinner item. The combination of skinned chicken thighs or drumsticks with different types of herbs and mushrooms has filled the preparation with lots of flavors, which is simply a treat for any food lover. In addition, the white wine sauce has increased its taste manifold, making it a perfect dish to be enjoyed in a cold winter night. Get the recipe here: Slow Cooker Meal: Herb Chicken with Mushrooms.

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Crock Pot Meals: Chicken with Olives and Roasted Tomato

Crock pot meals are a blessing, especially when the weather is freezing outside and you don’t have enough time to spend in the kitchen. Any chicken slow cooker recipes will be perfect if you are looking for an easy-to-make but tastes great dish. Our Slow Cooker Meal: Chicken with Olives and Roasted Tomato Recipe is a light dish that you can on any busy winter day. It combines delicious chicken with olives, tomatoes, parsley, dry wine, minced garlic, and black and red pepper, making it filling, flavorful, and yummy.

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Crock Pot Chicken Soup: Chicken and Corn Chowder

A winter morning is lazy an definitely cold – so much cold that only a Crock Pot chicken soup recipe like our Easy Tailgating Food: Chicken and Corn Chowder can warm you up. It is a hearty dish where chicken and corn are mixed together to yield a creamy and comforting chowder, perfect to thaw you out on a wintry day. The great thing about this recipe is that you can tweak it in so many ways – adding sausage or beans – to satisfy your specific taste.

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Slow Cooker Breakfast Recipes:

Whether you are on the go or you just want your home to smell amazing in the morning, there are several slow cooker breakfast ideas to try! Chicken is one of those meats you can substitute out for ham, beef, and even sausage. We love this list of 24 Time Saving Slow Cooker Recipes from BHG. This Ham, Gouda Bake could surely taste delicious with chicken.

Our chicken slow cooker recipes are just what you need at a cold, chilly day. You can accompany them with some pasta or rice and serve with side dishes like mashed potatoes or steamed green beans. Just enjoy them the way you like and have a satisfying meal with your family or by yourself.

Which one of these healthy slow cooker recipes are you going to try?

For more slow cooker recipes ideas, visit our Pinterest board – ‘Slow Cookers & Crock Pot Recipes‘

Easy Tailgating Food: Chicken and Corn Chowder

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Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 5 hours

Serves: 8 

Ingredients:

1 medium onion, chopped

2 carrots, chopped

3 celery stalks, diced

1 red bell pepper, seeded and diced

1 poblano pepper, seeded and diced

6 garlic cloves, minced

6 cups frozen corn

10 red-skinned potatoes, quartered

4 chicken breasts, diced

1 teaspoon chili powder

1 teaspoon cumin

4 cups chicken broth

2 cups half-and-half

Optional Garnishes: Chopped bacon, avocado, cilantro, scallions

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Preparation:

1. Prepare your ingredients as needed. Dry the chicken pieces thoroughly and season them with salt and pepper.
2. Add all the ingredients except the half-and-half into the slow cooker.
3. Cook for 3 hours on HIGH or 5 hours on LOW.
4. About 20 minutes before you’re ready to serve, stir in the half-and-half and adjust seasonings to taste.
5. Serve warm and garnished as desired.

Our favorite part about this recipe is that it can be easily customized to fit any group’s tastes. You could easily sub beans for the chicken to make a stellar vegetarian dish. If you’re fervent meat-eaters, go ahead and add sausage to deepen the rich flavors. As for serving, you could use mugs to make this chowder recipe even more travel-friendly or bread bowels for an extra satisfying touch. However you serve it, this chicken and corn chowder is sure to be the one tailgating food that all your friends request time and time again.

Would you bring chowder to the big game? What are your favorite tailgating recipes? Share them with us in the comments!

To find more easy ideas for football season, take a look at Stagetecture’s archives.