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.
Crockpot Chicken Dinner Video
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.
Featured Comment
“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.
Can bottled Italian Dressing be used?
Yes!
Does beans seem too cooked?
I made this for dinner tonight and I followed the recipe to a T . Everything cooked well the potatoes in particular were cooked perfectly. However it was so sour from the lemon juice that my family and I couldn’t eat it and it ended up going to the dogs.
Same, and the chicken was bone dry at 2 hours on high.
Ok, the sarcastic comment about changing the recipe cracked me up.. but for real, I have twin toddlers and store trips are no fun sometimes and I have everything to make this except instead of lemons, I have limes. Any guesses on if it will turnout ok?
I think it may be ok, you may want to put a touch less of juice. Maybe some chicken broth instead.
Absolutely Delicious!! We eat a lot of chicken and this is the only recipe that we eat often!!
a must try
This was so good!!! Thank you so much.nMy family loved it. I’ve made it three times in 2 weeks. It is in the monthly rotation.
Not a fan. Sounded good – picture looked good- but just a weird taste. Disappointed.
I used frozen breaded chicken nuggets instead of chicken breasts, frozen french fried potatoes instead of fresh red potatoes, some shredded lettuce I had sitting in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks instead of green beans, bottled orange juice instead of fresh lemon juice, some used motor oil I had on hand instead of olive oil, I used Mrs. Dash instead of oregano because I felt like it, I left out the salt cuz I didn’t have any, I put in 1/16 of a teaspoon of pepper instead of 1/4 teaspoon because I don’t like pepper, I increased the amount of onion powder to half a cup instead of 1/4 teaspoon because I LOVE onion powder, and instead of mincing the garlic cloves I mashed them with my feet.
I did not like this recipe AT ALL and I can’t figure out why not! It sounded so good!
I hope you have found my review of THIS recipe helpful.
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Perfect review! Don’t review if the recipe wasn’t followed!!
Sounds like the recipe you didn’t like was your own recipe. Maybe next time follow the original recipe & perhaps you might like that one instead. Pretty strange you couldn’t figure out why you didn’t like the recipe
Did you notice the /s at the end of my post? If so, do you know what it means? You can look it up.
This comment was meant to convey my dislike of the fact that so many people claim to be reviewing a recipe but then go on to discuss all of the changes they made to it. It’s ubiquitous, but nevertheless it’s a pet peeve of mine.
I need to give up on sarcasm on the internet. No matter how obvious I believe it is that it IS sarcasm, (I mean, come on, used motor oil , one half cup of onion powder, mashing garlic cloves with my feet, and changing every single ingredient isn’t obvious? ), and no matter that I actually denote that it is sarcasm, somebody out there will take it seriously.
Probably because you completely changed thecrecipe
Janice, You didn’t follow the recipe! Don’t review if you didn’t follow the recipe.
Understanding sarcasm requires intelligence. You give people to much credit, lol. You got a chuckle from me!
Everyone hopes you’re not really this stupid. Perhaps just looking for some laughs. In spite of your “ clever” substitutes so that proves you really ARE that dumb after all.
I love this recipe! I’ve made it for years now.
Also, it’s tricky as cuss to be sarcastic on the Internet because of people who post things like But chickens don’t have fingers… They’ve ruined it for the rest.
I’m sorry people are so stupid that they didn’t understand your review. I found it to be funny because I always see people completely changing a recipe and then saying what they did or didn’t like about it under someone else’s recipe.
This looks really great but I’m not a fan of chicken breast. I’m going to try it with thighs, more flavor and much more juicy. I’m heading out now to get some thighs, fresh lemons and will have it for dinner tonight. Thank you for sharing <3
Can you use frozen chicken breaststroke in crock pot
It’s best to thaw meat, some studies suggest it isn’t safe to cook frozen meat in the slow cooker.
VERY good!!