Slow Cooker Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole
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Updated Jan 03, 2025
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One of my childhood favorites made easily in the slow cooker. This Slow Cooker Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole is so simple to make! It’s a layered casserole with chicken breasts, ham, swiss cheese, sauce, and stuffing.
Other chicken casseroles to try are Chicken Enchilada Casserole and Chicken Biscuit Casserole.
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Why this recipe works
Did you grow up on frozen chicken cordon blue chicken breasts? I haven’t bought them in ages, but I remember how much I loved the flavor combination. I’ve made homemade oven chicken cordon bleu breasts, but they are very time-consuming.
This Crock Pot Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole can be loaded in the slow cooker within two shakes of a lamb’s tail. This is a layered dish and only needs 5 hours on low in the crockpot. I use cornbread stuffing mix for this recipe; the chicken would work fine instead. You may also like my slow cooker chicken cordon bleu pasta recipe.
Recipe Ingredients
- Chicken: Boneless skinless chicken breasts
- Ham: Sliced ham is layered on the chicken for a salty contrast. You can use leftover ham, honey ham, or even deli ham, anything works!
- Swiss Cheese: A classic choice, you can also use provolone cheese or mozzarella cheese.
- Cream of Chicken Soup: This is the creamy sauce base.
- Milk: Thins out the soup base.
- Seasonings: Dried oregano, garlic powder, and pepper. No salt is needed; there is plenty of sodium in the ingredients.
- Stuffing Mix: One box of chicken stove top stuffing (often called instant stuffing).
- Butter: This is drizzled over the stuffing to top off the recipe.
Step-by-Step Directions
Step One – Mix the condensed cream of chicken soup, milk, and seasonings. Set aside.
Step Two – Place the chicken breast down into your crock pot.
Step Three – Layer the ham over the chicken.
Step Four – Next, add the sliced swiss cheese.
Step Five – Pour the soup mixture over the layers you made and spread out with a spatula.
Step Six – Sprinkle over the dry stuffing mix and drizzle over the melted butter.
Recipe Variations
- Cornbread Stuffing: Look for cornbread stuffing (or savory flavor) to change up the recipe.
- Pepper Jack Cheese: For an entirely different twist, use pepper jack cheese for a blast of flavor.
- Almond Topping: For an added crunch, add a 1/4 cup of sliced almonds on top of the instant stuffing.
- Vegetables: Add a can of green beans, corn, or cut broccoli to complete this meal.
- Chicken thighs: Chicken thighs work great in this recipe; they turn out very moist.
Recipe FAQs
No, use fully thawed chicken breasts for the best results.
Crock pot chicken cordon bleu is best with raw chicken, for raw chicken adds moisture to the overall dish.
Something happens while the chicken and the ham cook next together, where the pinkness from the ham transfers to the chicken. If your chicken temperature is 165 degrees Fahrenheit, it’s done cooking.
There are a few things you can do to cut the salt content. Use healthy request cream of chicken soup, low sodium ham, and unsalted butter.
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Slow Cooker Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole
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Ingredients
- 10.5 oz can cream of chicken soup
- ¼ cup milk
- ½ tsp. oregano
- ½ tsp. pepper
- ½ tsp. garlic powder
- 2 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breasts
- ½ pound ham slices, this doesn’t need to exact, just enough slices to cover the chicken
- 6 oz. pkg. sliced Swiss cheese
- 6 oz. pkg. cornbread Stove-Top® stuffing
- ⅓ cup butter, melted
Instructions
- In a small bowl, whisk together the cream of chicken soup, milk, oregano, pepper and garlic powder until smooth. Set aside.
- Add the chicken breasts in an even layer in the slow cooker.
- Add the ham over the chicken in an even layer.
- Next the swiss cheese in an even layer.
- Pour over the soup mixture and use a spatula to spread it out evenly.
- Sprinkle over the cornbread stuffing mix.
- Pour over the butter evenly over the stuffing.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 5 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time.
- Serve and enjoy!
Sarah’s Notes
- Trying to cut back on sodium for this recipe? There’s a few things you can do to cut the sodium down. Use healthy request cream of chicken soup, low sodium ham and unsalted butter.
- Does your chicken still look pink? Something happens while the chicken and the ham cook next together, where the pinkness from the ham transfers to the chicken. If your chicken is 165 degrees Fahrenheit, then it’s done cooking.
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
So many more Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes here:
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- Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken
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- Slow Cooker Full Chicken Dinner
- Slow Cooker Ranch Chicken and Potatoes
- Slow Cooker Garlic Butter Chicken and Veggies
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- Slow Cooker Alpine Chicken
- Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Casserole
This was tasty – used thighs instead of breasts – my husband’s comment was “it needs more gravy”
This is a really good dish and so easy to put together. Pleases everyone. Keeper! I checked after four hours to check the chicken breasts so you don’t overcook. Know my crock pot cooks hot. It was done.
Can you cook this in less than 5 hours- or in other words can you set the crackpot to high for a shorter duration?
It should do fine on 3-5-4 hours on high.
Can you make this and then freeze for later? How would you recommend heating up?
You can freeze this. I would thaw out and microwave (don’t over cook!).
This recipe is a big hit in our house ~ can you use frozen chicken in this recipe and if so how long would you cook it for? Tia
New favorite at our house.
This recipe turned out great and was easy to make. I had to put 2 of the 6 chicken breasts on top of the others to fit them in, but it turned out great. I don’t like Swiss cheese, so I used Havarti. It was delicious! I used seasoned croutons because I didn’t have stuffing mix, it’s essentially the same thing. I will be making this again!
I am personally not a fan of chicken cordon bleu in general, but my husband and daughters absolutely love this recipe. I made this literal years ago and my husband still asks for me to make it again. I’ve had the recipe printed on our fridge for years. Thank you for this!
Can you make this with just the chicken, ham and Swiss. No stuffing?
Yes, though make sure to add the sauce stuff still.
Any thing I can use instead of cream of chicken? I have none on hand
I can’t think of anything off hand, sorry! Sometimes cream cheese or sour cream with seasonings works.
Instead of using cream of chicken. You can make a roux with butter and flour add chicken bullion powder in it to get chicken flavor
DIY cream of chicken soup: 1/2 cup chicken broth or 1/2 chicken bouillion cube + 1/2 C boiling water, 1/4 C milk, 1TBS flour, 2 tsp butter, 1/4 tsp pepper, 1/4 tsp garlic powder. I’ve made this several times whenever I run out of canned crm chicken soup. It’s really good. Tastes great and makes meals taste better than canned.
Thank you as I am currently out of cream of chicken!
You can use cream of mushroom or most any of the cream soups that Campbell’s makes. I like creamy chicken mushroom and cream of chicken with herbs.