Slow Cooker Alpine Chicken
44 Comments Aug 02, 2024
Updated Aug 25, 2024
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One of our favorite easy dinners to make is slow cooker alpine chicken. A creamy chicken dish with swiss cheese, stuffing mix and crunchy almonds!
Stove-top stuffing is a wonderful way to be creative in the slow cooker. Also, try my slow cooker turkey meatloaf, and my guide to make slow cooker stove-top stuffing.
This recipe was given to me by a mom at my daughter’s school. Her recipe is slightly different than the “swiss chicken” recipe for it has the added crunch of sliced almonds.
This dinner recipe is one we make over and over. To make it a complete meal, add a green side dish. You may also like my slow cooker chicken and stuffing recipe.
Recipe Ingredients
- Chicken – Boneless skinless chicken breasts cook up great in this recipe.
- Swiss Cheese – The sliced Swiss cheese gets put on top of the chicken layer. (We also use Swiss cheese in our Slow Cooker Chicken Cordon Bleu).
- Sauce layer – All you need is cream of chicken soup and milk!
- Stuffing – A box of chicken Stovetop Stuffing and a drizzle of butter goes on top. Stove-top stuffing is our preferred brand.
- Almonds – Don’t skip the sliced almonds; adds texture and flavor to the dish.
- {The full recipe is in the recipe card below the photos}
Variations
Chicken thighs can be used instead of chicken breasts; be sure to trim the fat off them well. Seasonings can be added to the chicken such as garlic powder, onion powder or oregano. Do not add any additional salt for the soup and stuffing contain enough salt.
Cheese variations you can use are pepper-jack cheese, gruyere, cheddar or even mozzarella. Use what you have on hand.
Any type of stuffing mix can be used, such as the savory variety, cornbread or turkey flavor.
Don’t like almonds? You can use toasted pecans instead, or skip them entirely.
- In a bowl, add the cream of chicken soup and milk, whisk until smooth.
- Add the chicken breasts to the slow cooker.
- Lay over the swiss cheese slices.
- Pour the creamy sauce mixture over the chicken breasts, and half of the almonds.
- Sprinkle over the stuffing mix, drizzle over the butter and add the remaining almonds.
- Cook on LOW for 5-6 hours.
Serving Suggestions
This is a perfect meal to serve as is! Just ladle the chicken onto plates and serve.
A green vegetable such as green beans, steamed broccoli or a fresh garden salad is a perfect touch.
We love to round of our dinners with a side of parker house dinner rolls or slow cooker cornbread.
Recipe FAQs
No, it is not necessary. Slow cookers are meant for easy meal preparation!
This type of recipe is best served the day of, or as leftovers the next few days. You can freeze, but the stuffing tends to get soggy.
Need more slow cooker chicken recipes? Try one of these:
- Slow Cooker Chicken with Bacon Gravy
- Slow Cooker Amish Six Layer Dinner
- Slow Cooker Chicken and Gravy (without bacon)
- Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken
- Slow Cooker Seasoned Chicken, Potatoes and Green Beans
- Slow Cooker Full Chicken Dinner
Slow Cooker Alpine Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 ½ lbs. boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 6-8 slices Swiss cheese
- 10.5 oz. can cream of chicken soup
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup sliced or slivered almonds, divided
- 6 oz. box chicken Stove-top stuffing
- ⅓ cup salted butter, melted
Instructions
- Mix together the milk and cream of chicken soup in a small bowl, set aside.
- Lay down the chicken in the slow cooker, then the cheese, soup mixture, ½ of the almonds, stuffing mix, drizzle over butter over the stuffing. Then sprinkle over remaining almonds.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 5-6 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time.
- Serve and enjoy!
Sarah’s Notes
- Chicken thighs can be used instead of chicken breasts; be sure to trim the fat off them well. Seasonings can be added to the chicken such as garlic powder, onion powder or oregano. Do not add any additional salt for the soup and stuffing contain enough salt.
- Cheese variations you can use are pepper-jack cheese, gruyere, cheddar or even mozzarella. Use what you have on hand.
- Any type of stuffing mix can be used, such as the savory variety, cornbread or turkey flavor. We prefer the Stove-Top Brand for it is the right size package and flavoring for this meal.
- Don’t like almonds? You can use toasted pecans instead, or skip them entirely.
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
I am cooking this again. Dlish is the word… Yes the 1st time was excellent, I expect this meal to be the same 🙂 am using a 6 Qt cooker, a little cramped with 3 1/2 lbs of thighs but works well..
Skinned the meat, seasoned it, applied the ingredients with a twist
used both almonds and pecans 1 lb half half.
Can hardly wait to eat.
Hi all, I made this yesterday as prescribed in recipe and it comes out just as noted. Nice!
Used a little more than 3 lbs of chicken breast, the recommended soup volume was perfect.
Used a little bit more almonds and heavily seasoned the meat over night marinating did nothing as the soup takes all the flavor, nice and filling it is. The stuffing and soup stole the show, I am finding that my 6 quart slow cooker cooks hot in relations to cooking time! If it says 6 hrs slow I’m thinking 5 will not dry out the meat. A superb dinner recommendation for slow cooler beginner like me.
Thank you.
So glad you liked it! Thanks for the great review.
I added a full cup instead of a half cup of milk and it was perfect!! OMG so darn good!!
When I saw this recipe, I wondered about the almonds! Thank you for answering my question about leaving the out or exchanging with another kind of nut!
Just made this today…the chicken I used was already thawed and it didn’t take as long to cook. Here are the issues I experienced: 1) the cheese melted and stuck and burnt to the sides (and some on the bottom) of my crockpot; 2) with the small amount of liquid, everything was soaked up by the stuffing so it all seemed a bit on the dry side. I think next time I will add more milk to the soup and perhaps a little water or chicken broth to the bottom of the crockpot.
Heh….I wanna try ALL the recipes on your blog but you have so may I don’t think I’d live long enough to cook all of them LOL!
hi there! can i use breadcrumbs instead of stuffing?
Yes, though I’d use seasoned breadcrumbs or season them somehow.