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.
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.
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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 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 just wanted to say I was skeptical at first, I’ve been guilty of using the seasoning packets but for just a little extra time to prep, this was wonderful. My picky 7 year old loved it. My chicken was little on the thicker side so it wasn’t dry at all. Super good, will definitely make it again! Thanks!
I’m going to make my first crockpot meal and I would like it to be this one. Does anyone know how long I have to cook and on high or low the chicken if it is frozen?
I made this recipe last night. I added fresh chopped onions and more salt,pepper, and garlic. Plus I doubled the marinade. The flavoring of the food came out really good. The only problem I had was I only had thin boneless chicken breasts so they came out a little dry. Next time I will use regular chicken breasts and see if it still comes out dry, then I will adjust the cook time on my crockpot. Thank you for sharing the recipe
Instead of having green beans in this can I do asparagus instead as an alternative?
We are renovating our kitchen and I really wanted to make a home cooked meal for my husband after he got home from a business trip. This was perfect! I loved the flavor and the chicken was tasty, not dry like I was afraid it would be. The potatoes are really the best part of this dish in my opinion. And the best part if that you can easily make it without a kitchen!
Can this be made in a 3-quart crockpot? Can the chicken sit on top of the veggies?
Do you think it would come out okay if I added carrots? If so would the cooking time stay the same?
Yes I think carrots would cook up just fine for the same amount of time! 🙂
I can’t wait for dinner to try it! I read some comments about the chicken being dry, so I seared each side for a couple of minutes to try and lock in the juices. I also put a little more lemon juice and olive oil since I added the carrots to it. Hopefully I didn’t change it to much.
I have a 4qt crock pot would this still fit?
I think it should. If it is round, things may be mixed up a bit, but still would work fine. 🙂
This was delicious! Chicken was a bit dry, may try thighs instead next time but that didn’t matter much to me the green beans and potatoes were heavenly
I just bought a new pressure cooker XL which is supposed to cut time down. How long would this cook in this new cooker….I’m assuming not 4 hours…?