Slow Cooker Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole
236 Comments Nov 27, 2022
Updated Jun 10, 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.
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.
More Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes to try
Slow Cooker Whole Chicken, Crockpot Tuscan Chicken, and Chicken with Potatoes and Green Beans are all great options for a classic chicken dinner.
For something easy and family-friendly, try Crockpot Chicken Dinner or Slow Cooker Chicken Tenders.
If you’re craving something cheesy and filling, go for Fiesta Chicken Casserole or Chicken Enchilada Casserole.
Is the ham already cooked when you use it?
Yes, it’s already cooked and sliced.
Great, thanks
Could you just put bread crumbs over the soup or would it be too liquidy
They may soak right in, I’m not sure how it would turn out.
Made this recipe yesterday using chicken thighs, cream of mushroom soup, chicken flavored stuffing mix and gouda cheese … my husband and I deem this a big WINNER! Definitely will make again!
Too salty. Be careful what type of ham you use. Salty ham with salty soup with salty stove top makes a salty meal. My daughter smokes and she found it too salty.
I followed the recipe exactly!! I love Chicken Cordon Bleu but this tastes absolutely nothing like it. We couldn’t eat it and I ended up throwing it out.
That’s because it is missing the Dijon mustard that normally comes in cordon blue. You need to remember everything when you make a new recipe out of an old one, and not forget main ingredients.
Not all chicken cordon blue recipes have mustard in them. I personally rather not have it in mine.
If I intend to make this meal for three people, would the cook time change?
I’m unsure how it would do with less time and less liquids. I would keep an eye on it.
What kind or type of ham do you recommend?
I used a presliced ham. It was a brown sugar ham and it wasn’t over powering. This ham is next to the giant hams that you would use for Christmas but is much smaller and sliced.
Would you happen to know how long if I did it on high?
I think 3.5-4 hours on high would work ok, may start to crisp up around the edges a bit.
Looks really good. I live in Denmark and we dont have that creamy chicken soup on can – I wonder if I could substitute it with something else or make it with cream and broth?
And what’s in the cornbread stuffing? Just crumbled cornbread?
Thanks….
You can easily make homemade cream of chicken soup.
https://www.apinchofhealthy.com/homemade-condensed-cream-of-chicken-soup/
Great that looks easy. I see that the US recipes often uses garlic powder or salt – in Denmark we usually use fresh garlic in stead. I guess it’s alright to use here too?
Yes fresh is fine 🙂
The cornbread stuffing is a dry mix with cubed dried cornbread and seasonings. you can see it here:
Yumm, this casserole looks so delicious! I’m definitely going to try it =)