Slow Cooker Marry Me Chicken
26 Comments Sep 28, 2022
Updated Jun 20, 2025
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This Slow Cooker Marry Me Chicken combines the flavors of chicken, sundried tomatoes, chicken broth, and several staple seasonings for an absolutely delicious meal. With minimal prep and a cooking time of as little as 3 hours, this meal is ideal for those busy weeknights.
This chicken recipe gets its name from the simple fact that all ingredients “marry one another” as they slowly cook together. The unique flavors of sun dried tomatoes paired with the seasonings, broth, and butter all around the chicken will keep everyone wanting more.
I always thought the name Marry Me Chicken meant you make the dish for someone you want to marry!
Ingredients Needed:
- Chicken: Boneless skinless chicken breasts are the perfect chicken cut for this recipe.
- Wet Ingredients: Heavy cream, butter, and chicken broth are used to create the creamy base, while olive oil is used to brown the chicken before putting it into the crockpot.
- Seasonings: salt, pepper, dried onion, Italian seasoning, paprika, sun-dried tomatoes, and garlic marry together to create a flavor that gives this chicken recipe its staple taste.
- Flour: Flour is mixed with the chicken broth to make the creamy base thick.
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How to make Crockpot Marry Me Chicken:
Step One – Measure out the chicken broth in a measuring cup. Add the flour and whisk together until well combined.
Step Two – Lightly season the chicken and place it in a skillet heated with olive oil—Brown one side for just a couple of minutes. Flip the chicken breasts and brown the other side.
Step Three – Add the chicken stock and flour mixture, heavy cream, minced garlic, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, paprika, minced onion, and mix. Submerge the browned chicken breasts into the slow cooker. Add the quartered butter and sun dried tomatoes.
Step Four – Cook on HIGH for 3 hours or LOW for 6 hours. Serve warm.
Variations
- Add 2 cups of spinach about 10 minutes before serving.
- Add cayenne pepper or red pepper flakes for a bit of heat in your sun dried tomato cream sauce.
- Boneless chicken thighs can be used instead of breasts and the cooking time remains the same.
- Instead of using heavy cream, use half-and-half instead for a slightly lower fat recipe.
- Whole sundried tomatoes are fine to use.
- Cream cheese can be used instead of heavy cream, cube it and add to the slow cooker at the beginning of the cooking time.
My Serving Tips
- From a regular spaghetti noodle to rotini pasta, you can choose just about any pasta type to pair with this chicken recipe.
- Serving with mashed potatoes will soak up all the wonderful creamy sundried tomato sauce.
- Parmesan or mozzarella cheeses are great toppings for this dice.
- Make it an entire course meal: Use this chicken recipe to create a complete meal by pairing it with green beans, roasted carrots, or even a small side salad.
Recipe FAQs and Variations
Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container for up to 4 days—reheat servings in the microwave.
Freeze any leftovers in a freezer-safe container for up to 3 months. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator before reheating.
More Creamy Chicken Recipes:
- If you love creamy, flavorful meals, this recipe is similar to Crockpot Tuscan Chicken and Slow Cooker Smothered Chicken.
- The rich sauce has a hint of tang, much like Slow Cooker Chicken Piccata, but with a creamy twist.
- If you enjoy cheesy or slightly spicy dishes like Queso Chicken or Creamy Sweet Chili Chicken, this recipe is a perfect fit! Or Try my Marry Me Chicken Pasta for even more sundried tomato flavor.
Slow Cooker Marry Me Chicken
Ingredients
- 5 boneless skinless chicken breast
- 2 Tbsp. olive oil
- 1 ½ cups chicken stock
- 3 Tbsp. all purpose flour
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 3 cloves minced garlic
- ½ tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. black pepper
- 1 tsp. Italian seasoning
- 1 tsp. paprika
- 1 tsp. dried minced Onion, (or ¼ teaspoon onion powder)
- ⅓ cup sun dried tomatoes, drained
- 4 Tbsp. salted butter
- fresh basil for garnish
- grated or shredded parmesan for garnish
Instructions
- In a frying pan or cast iron skillet, heat the olive oil over medium high heat. Brown the chicken breasts for 2-3 minutes on both sides. (The goal here is to brown the outside of the chicken breast, not to cook it through) Set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the chicken stock and flour. In the slow cooker pot, add the chicken stock and flour mixture, heavy cream, minced garlic, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, paprika, minced onion and mix.
- Place the browned chicken breasts into the slow cooker pot and top with the sun dried tomatoes and butter. Cover and cook on HIGH for 3 hours or LOW for 6 hours.
- Serve over pasta, rice or mashed potatoes and garnish with the fresh basil. Enjoy!
Sarah’s Notes
- Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container for up to 4 days. Reheat servings in the microwave.
- Freeze any leftovers in a freeze safe container for up to 3 months. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator before reheating.
- Add 2 cups of spinach about 10 minutes before serving.
- Add cayenne pepper or red pepper flakes for a bit of heat in your sun dried tomato cream sauce.
- Boneless chicken thighs can be used instead of breasts and the cooking time remains the same.
- Instead of using heavy cream, use half-and-half instead for a slightly lower fat recipe.
- Whole sundried tomatoes are fine to use.
- Cream cheese can be used instead of heavy cream, cube it and add to the slow cooker at the beginning of the cooking time.
- From a regular spaghetti noodle to rotini pasta, you can choose just about any pasta type to pair with this chicken recipe.
- Serving with mashed potatoes will soak up all the wonderful creamy sundried tomato sauce.
- Parmesan or mozzarella cheeses are great toppings for this dice.
- Make it an entire course meal: Use this chicken recipe to create a complete meal by pairing it with green beans, roasted carrots, or even a small side salad.
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
Ended up buying a jar of Alfredo and adding in maybe a cup or two of the sauce from the crockpot. Added sautéed spinach and feta with penne pasta. It was delicious!
I made this for our New Year dinner, we loved it! We had it over a bed of spaghetti noodles, the taste was delicious! My husband told me to keep this on our menu!
It was a little bland. Way way too much liquid it’s called for!
This recipe was so bland.. it literally just tasted like plain chicken and rice
Recipe was just okay. Was very runny and never thickened.
Served over pasta with roasted broccoli. It was incredible!
This recipe worked and saved some over the stove time for sure (as opposed to the traditional mary me chicken process). I poured the grease from the chicken browning in along with a little oil from the sun dried tomatoes and it was not as creamy (as to be expected) will cut back on that next time.
Thank you again Sarah,
This recipe was a hit with the entire family!
Can you use whole milk instead of heavy cream or half n half?
You can, though it won’t be as creamy.
Can you use tapioca flour for thickening
I’m unsure, for I’ve never worked with tapioca flour before.
I used arrowroot and it worked great!