Crockpot Chicken, Potatoes, and Green beans
690 Comments Apr 07, 2025
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.
I made about 3x of the recipe: used fresh garlic, a fresh yellow onion, about two cups of chicken broth, 8 lbs of boneless breast, 3 lbs of new Michigan potatoes, 1 lb 6 oz of fresh green beans, pepper, kosher salt, oregono, 1/3 cup of virgin olive oil, 1/3 cup of lemon juice (from a bottle lol), and then slow cooked it in my 10 qt cooker for 7 hours. Talk about good….crazy good. Left-overs are going into a batch of home made chicken noodle soup tomorrow.
Family was attacking it with glee. Glad I made a large batch
Sounds amazing! Thank you for sharing. Soup is a great idea.
I had leftover chicken tenders, so I tried this recipe. WOW!! So delicious and easy to prep! The marinade was the best! I’m now thinking of other foods it could go on!!
I’m going to try this this week. Cant find the original recipe I saved. It used cream of celery soup! Can I use cream of mushroom/chicken soup and also add fresh mushrooms? Should I add any additional seasonings? I can’t wait to try it!
Hi! You can make it however you want, I can’t say without testing it. I would add seasonings though.
What & how much can I use in place of lemon juice? Can I use regular russet pitatoes?
You could use a touch of chicken broth, I do not have an amount for I have not tested it. Yes you can use regular russet potatoes.
Hi, I didn’t realize until it was too late that it called for the Italian seasoning mix instead of the homemade dressing. I thought it was just a bottle of Italian dressing which I got. Has anyone tried it with an Italian dressing bottle instead?
You can use the bottled stuff, skip all the other dressing ingredients.
Hi. If I use Italian seasoning and the melted butter you mentioned- do I still use any of the other ingredients ( specifically the lemon juice)?
Thanks.
You can leave the lemon juice out for that version.
Can you use Frozen chicken breast? If so, what needs to change about cooking?
I only test my recipes with thawed meats for some studies suggest it isn’t safe to cook from frozen.
can I put in more than the potatoes and green beans like broccoli and carrots also
Yes, that will work fine.
What season do I use on the chicken before I put butter, Italian dressing mix ,potatoes and green beans
You don’t have to add any as the seasoning packet has the seasonings you need.
Just wondering if you can use frozen green beans instead of fresh in your recipe?
Yes, frozen green beans work great in this recipe!