Slow Cooker Alpine Chicken
43 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.
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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.
What would you suggest for a different kind of cheese? My a Son hates Swiss!
Maybe a white cheddar or mozzarella? I don’t think you could ruin it with any cheese. 🙂
Made this tonight, so good!!
This sounds great. I’m going to make it but use boneless skinless thighs. Cooking time should be about the same. Right?
Hi Mick, Yes the cooking time will be the same. I bet boneless thighs will be good!
Made it this past weekend with the thighs otherwise exactly the same. Excellent. Served it with roasted cauliflower and mashed potatoes. Big hit. Will make it again the same way. Thanks.
I’m always looking for new chicken recipes! Love the almonds you added to this!
Oh wow! I just love how easy this is to assemble! 🙂 I love tasty, no-fuss dinner ideas like this.
Thank you Sarah for all your lovely recipes.
I haven’t heard of alpine chicken before but I love the ingredients.
Oh, that looks amazing, Sarah! I love making things with stuffing year-round. And cheese?!?!?!?! I’ll have to give it a try.
This looks easy and delicious! My kids don’t care for stuffing mix, so I might try it with some seasoned panko breadcrumbs and decrease the butter a bit. I’ll let you know how it turns out!
Please do! I would love to know how the bread crumbs work.
The Alpine Chicken looks/sounds delicious but could it be cooked for more like 9 hours and survive? I have to start my slow cooker before I leave for work and by the time I get home it’s about 9 hours.
Hi Pat, I really wish this dish could cook longer for work days. But it’s starts to get pretty toasty around the edges right at 5 hours.
Thanks for your quick response. I guess it will have to be a weekend dish for me then. But I will definitely try it.
I use a cheap little appliance timer on my slow cooker so I can either start cooking after I’ve been gone awhile (frozen chicken breasts for example) or can shut off cooking early. Depending on your recipe, it lets me make dishes with much shorter cooking times than my work shift would normally allow. I think I spent $5 on the timer. You set the current time, the time you want something to start and the time you want it to stop. It plugs into the wall and your crock pot plugs into it. Useful and low tech. One caveat: things will continue to cook awhile after a crock pot turns off so I often set the off time earlier than a recipe says. And not everything can stand up to several hours sitting, waiting for you to get home. I would try this recipe with frozen chicken and start it later, so it’s freshly done when you get home.