Crockpot Chicken, Potatoes, and Green beans
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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!”
– Trudy
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 Crockpot 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.
This came out nicely. The chicken was really tender and the potatoes were cooked perfectly. The lemon flavor was a little over powering so I might try to figure out how to tweak that.
I added chicken broth and sour cream it was great!
Wow I followed this to the letter, it was bland to say the least. Maybe my lemons weren’t to scratch. Something went wrong but this was almost yuck. Sorry!
I made this is the instant pot:
Follow directions above, but set pressure on high for 10 mins (for 2lbs of chicken) and natural release for 5 mins, then quick release the rest.
This was a big hit. I’ve made this twice now. The 2nd time around I changed some things. First, I tripled the dressing recipe, otherwise there’s barely anything. I used 2lbs of chicken like the recipe says, but you definitely need to triple or quadruple the dressing. 2nd, I used a lime instead of a lemon because i forgot to get a lemon when I was at the grocery store. It actually tasted pretty good! My kids are very picky, and they said this was one of their favorites. I did green beans, and I had yellow potatoes at home so I used those instead of red potatoes.
Chicken breast always comes out dry even when cooked from fresh and on low. Thighs might work better, but I haven’t tried them yet. I love the concept of this recipe so I will keep trying to tweak it for my family’s tastes. We’re also not fans of the lemon flavor. Yes, I used freshly squeezed lemon juice. It was just not awesome. Trying it today with 1/2 cup water in the bottom and 1/2 cup melted butter with Italian seasonings drizzled on top.
The flavor was great and the vegetables were delicious but the chicken came out SO dry to the point that we couldn’t even chew it. I can’t figure out what I could have done wrong. The recipe said HIGH for 4 hours and I even did 3 hours.
Trying tonight! Can I use russet potatoes?
Yes! Any potato will work well.
Thank you’
I made this last night and it seemed like everyone liked it.
I used thighs, as I had them on hand, bottled Italian dressing and added baby carrots with the green beans and petite red taters.
So tender, didn’t even need a knife to cut the chicken.
Will I make again, more than likely.
Did you use frozen or thawed chicken?
Thawed chicken.
I don’t do Italian sauces, any other ideas?
Change the seasonings but I would keep the base sauce the same.
Can I use pork chops instead of chicken?
Yes, pork chops would work well.