Crockpot Chicken, Potatoes, and Green beans
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Updated May 03, 2025
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This one-pot Crockpot Chicken, Potatoes, and Green Beans features a homemade lemon garlic dressing poured over the top for a flavorful, healthy dinner you’ll want to make again and again.
This classic chicken, potatoes, and green beans recipe is made completely from scratch! The ingredients are arranged in the crockpot and topped with a homemade lemon garlic Italian dressing—no seasoning packets or butter here, just olive oil and simple pantry spices for a fresh and healthy slow cooker dinner.
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Key Ingredients
This recipe for chicken dinner in the crockpot is made from scratch. Here is what you need. For full ingredient amounts, see the recipe card below the images.
- Boneless skinless chicken breasts – Can use chicken thighs or tenders.
- Fresh green beans – Frozen works well too.
- Red Potatoes – Cut into quarters or about 1/2 inch pieces.
- Homemade Italian dressing – Super quick to make, you just need: Fresh lemon juice, olive oil, oregano, salt, pepper, onion powder, and minced garlic.
How to Make Chicken, Potatoes and Green Beans
Step One: Make the homemade dressing by mixing the olive oil, lemon juice and seasonings.
Step Two: Add the chicken to the center of the slow cooker, add the cut green beans on one side, then the cut potatoes on the other side.
Step Three: Pour over the homemade dressing over the chicken, potatoes and green beans.
Variations
This recipe has been tested many times as is. If you want to make some changes, here are great ideas.
- Use a different vegetable than green beans. You can use: Broccoli, asparagus, canned or fresh corn, baby carrots, or use extra potatoes!
- Use Italian dressing instead of the homemade (such as Newman’s own.
- Or use a stick of melted butter and sprinkle a packet of Good Seasons Italian dressing mix over. You can find the Italian dressing mix on the salad dressing aisle next to the ranch dressing packets.
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“Added to our regular menu rotation. So easy and so delicious!”
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Crockpot Chicken, Potatoes and Green Beans Recipe
How to Video
Ingredients
- 2 lbs. Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
- 1/2 lb. fresh green beans, trimmed (about 2.5 cups)
- 1 1/4 lb. diced red potatoes, about 4 cups
Homemade dressing ingredients:
- 1/3 cup FRESH lemon juice (NOT BOTTLED), (1 large or 2 small lemons)
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 tsp. dried oregano
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- 1/4 tsp. onion powder
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
Instructions
- Start by placing the chicken the middle of the slow cooker. Next, add the green beans on one side. Then for the potatoes, you will need to mound them high off to the other side.
- In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the lemon juice, olive oil, oregano, salt, pepper, onion powder, and garlic cloves.
- Pour this mixture evenly over the chicken, green beans and potatoes.
- Cover and cook on HIGH for 4 hours or LOW for 7 hours, without opening the lid during the cooking time.
- Note- Do NOT use lemon juice out of squeeze bottle, the recipe will not turn out correct.
Sarah’s Notes
- Use a different vegetable than green beans. You can use: Broccoli, asparagus, canned or fresh corn, baby carrots, or use extra potatoes!
- Use Italian dressing instead of the homemade (such as Newman’s own.
- Or use a stick of melted butter and sprinkle a packet of Good Seasons Italian dressing mix over. You can find the Italian dressing mix on the salad dressing aisle next to the ranch dressing packets.
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
Can I make this in the Oven?
Yes, you can make this in the oven, try this oven version, but most oven versions include an Italian dressing seasoning packet.
More complete meal slow cooker recipes:
Enjoy the all-in-one ease of a Slow Cooker Full Chicken Dinner, or dig into the creamy, savory flavors of Slow Cooker Ranch Chicken and Potatoes.
Let buttery herbs shine with Garlic Butter Chicken and Veggies, or spice things up with a cheesy, saucy Crockpot Chicken Enchilada Casserole.
Serve a down-home favorite like Meatloaf and Baked Potatoes, or make it meaty and hearty with Steak, Potatoes, and Corn cooked low and slow.
Made this for dinner last night, started it at 3:30 pm with 3 frozen chicken breasts and peeled, cubed russet potatoes (that’s what we had and they were sprouting so needed to be cooked). Substituted thyme for oregano because that’s what I had, used kosher salt, I only had two fresh lemons left so a bit less the 1/3 c juice. After tasting the marinade made as instructed, I added Cajun seasoning and Lawrys all purpose seasoning to taste and drizzled more olive oil (to help with the slight decrease in fresh lemon juice). Set my crockpot to High. Since I used frozen chicken breasts, I anticipated at least 5 hours and had a possible back up plan for dinner (i.e., leftovers). We left to run errands for back to school stuff got home around 8, the house smelled great, I used my meat thermometer in the chicken and it was Ready I did cook the frozen green beans (again what I had on hand) separately and my family loved every bite!! Great recipe with a few of my accommodating adjustments, thank you for sharing!!
I love your version. The Cajun seasoning is a great idea!
Can I sub asparagus instead of green beans? It’s what I have on hand? And about how many chicken breast is it?
It’s about 3 chicken breasts. If you do asparagus it should do fine but the color of the asparagus cooked in the slow cooker is not pretty.
If I am using a 3.5 quart sized crockpot to cook this meal, how long do you think I should cook this?
I personally would try 4 hours on high still, and maybe check it at 3.5 hours if I was home.
Hi, I was just wondering if fresh diced onions would be an okay substitute for onion powder?
I found this recipie and was excited to try it so before reading the instructions fully I whipped it together to have tonight. Then I got to the note at the bottom about using lemon juice from a jar! Of course that’s all we had so I used it. Is it going to turn out awful? Or just not as good as with fresh lemon juice?
Ok so it didn’t come out horrible but it wasn’t great either. However the chicken cooked perfectly ! I’ll definitely try it again with fresh lemon juice next time !
That’s great to hear Beth!
Hello. This sounds delicious! Insread of 2 garlic cloves, would garlic powder work? If so, how much?
I haven’t tried garlic powder yet, but if I was going to I would start with a 1/4 tsp, and taste it, then add more if needed.
This is great! I made it this evening. I followed the recipe except for adding a sliced lemon and more oregano, but otherwise to the letter. Done in four hours, and the chicken breasts were juicy and tender. Next time I’ll use fewer potatoes, but that’s a personal preference. This one’s a keeper!
I’ve made this recipe twice now and the flavour of the beans and potatoes was fantastic but both times the chicken has been incredibly dry. The first time I cooked on low for 8 hours and figured that might be the reason the chicken dried out, but tonight I followed it to the letter and the chicken came out even worse. Such a shame because we love the flavour but don’t think I can risk cooking such dry chicken again.
I think adding some chicken broth would fix the problem!
Tried this recipe for the first time last night and the family loved it, including my picky 8 year old. We are going to double the chicken and green beans for the next go round so we have left overs!
Yummy meal–I followed the recipe exactly but used my Instant Pot (9 minutes on Poultry setting). This will be a new regular meal for us.