Complete Chicken Dinner in the Crockpot
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This Easy Chicken Dinner has tender chicken thighs, Yukon gold potatoes, and green beans in a savory herb sauce. A cozy meal that hits the spot.
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Hi Sarah, we loved this recipe! I used frozen green beans and they worked fine. Thanks for such a delicious meal. I would serve it to company.
– mt
I love it when I find a complete meal for the slow cooker — no worrying about making side dishes for this meal since everything is prepared at once. This full chicken dinner is so flavorful and tender that many of my viewers say it’s good enough to serve to company!
It’s a Sunday meal, set this up after lunch, and no worries about dinner at all, scoop and serve when the timer goes off.
Key Ingredients
Chicken Thighs – Bone in, skin on thighs will cook down and help create the sauce for these thighs.
Green Beans – These hold up well to the long slow cooking.
Potatoes – We use Yukon gold potatoes because they have a great buttery flavor.
Sauce – A blend of tomato sauce, salt, pepper, rosemary, thyme, and fresh garlic – yes, a from-scratch sauce.
How to make a Complete Chicken Dinner in the Crockpot
- Quickly brown the chicken to build flavor.
- Add potatoes and green beans to the slow cooker.
- Layer the chicken on top, then add garlic, tomato sauce, and seasonings.
- Cover and cook until the chicken is tender and the veggies are perfectly cooked.
Tips & Variations
Cut Swap: If you use any other cut other than bone in, skin on thighs, add a cup of chicken broth. (Thighs are ultra juicy compared to other cuts).
Tomato Swap: Don’t have tomato sauce? You can use any type of spaghetti sauce in it’s place.
Other Veggies: You can add carrots, onions or mushrooms to this meal (along with the other vegetables or take some out)
Potato type: Though we love yukon gold potatoes, you can use any potato in this recipe. Just be sure to cut them into small cubes.
The Beans: You can use fresh, frozen or even canned green beans if you are in a pinch.
What should I serve with this dish to round out the meal?
If you’d like to add more to this meal, consider adding dinner rolls, butter, and a side salad. Or if you’re busy like me, this complete chicken dinner is all you need for a fully rounded meal.
Complete Chicken Dinner
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Ingredients
- 2 ½ lbs bone-in chicken thighs
- 2 Tbsp. cooking oil
- 1 ½ lbs. Yukon gold potatoes, diced
- 1 lb. green beans, ends snipped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 8 oz. can tomato sauce , (not paste)
- 1 ½ tsp. salt
- ¼ tsp. pepper
- ½ tsp. dried thyme
- ½ tsp. dried rosemary
Instructions
- Set a pan on the stove top and set to medium-high heat. Add the cooking oil and swirl to coat the bottom of the pan. When the oil is hot, brown the chicken on both sides, you don't need to cook the meat through.
- Add the diced potatoes and green beans to the bottom of the slow cooker, toss them together to combine them.
- Add the chicken thighs on top of the potatoes and green beans. Add the garlic. Drizzle over the tomato sauce, then sprinkle over the salt, pepper, thyme, and rosemary. Take a spatula and smear around the sauce trying to combine the seasoning into the sauce.
- Cover and cook on HIGH for 4.5 hours. Do no open the lid during the cooking time or the potatoes will not get tender.
- Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
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Woudn’t it make more sense to mix the tomato sauce and the seasonings before adding it to the cooker?
You can do that! I don’t because I didn’t want to dirty a bowl. Everything bubbles together in the slow cooker anyway.
I’d need to double this recipe for my large family does anyone know how much cook time I should add?
My wife just bought 10# of chicken leg quarters. Can’t resist a sale. Do you think I can sub these for the thighs?
Yes, I’d cook it a half hour longer.:)
I cooked this for a late lunch today and ignored the advice regarding using skinless breast fillets and it worked out great. Chicken was super juicy and tender. Great recipe though, it’s on the list now!
That’s great to hear Lee! I’m glad it worked out.
Hello, just wondering how the chicken skin looks so brown. Is this a function of your special crockpot or will this turn out brown in any normal crockpot. Mine is pretty basic. Thanks for inspiring me to pull my slow cooker out I haven’t used it in ages as I have lacked the confidence.
It takes so long it would upset me to wait all that time for it to not work out, think that’s what I am scared of.
Thanks Jodie Melbourne Australia
I browned them before I added them to the crock pot, and the tomato sauce adds a bit of color. 🙂
I work all day… What would you suggest me putting the timing on the crockpot on low ???? Thx in advance looks really yummy…
I would imagine just double the time. I’m going to use 9 hours on low for mine since I’m working all day.
Thank you I am gonna try this….
It may be fine on low for 8 hours. The chicken will be falling off the bone, but I think still tasty!
Can you use chicken breast instead of thighs?
I’m unsure how that would turn out. You may need to add a touch more time and a touch more liquid. I don’t recommend skinless chicken for this recipe.
We don’t eat thighs is why I was asking. Thanks.
Just wondering why you don’t eat the thighs? The dark meat is the most nutritious and flavorful so it’s often preferred. The white meat has less fat but also less flavor and is drier.
A lot of people don’t eat dark meat.
I Sympathize with Judy. I had a horrible experience at a chicken restaurant with bone in skin on chicken. let’s just say that the deep fryer didn’t cook very well and I cannot bring myself to eat bone in skin on chicken again it gets to my gag reflex is now.
I tried your onion potatoes in my crockpot… we loved the result! There is no doubt that I will do this one again. Thank you… Next on my list is the Chicken Thigh dinner…
I’m so glad you liked it!
Look good great meal
Hi Sarah, This looks like an awesome meal. Right now I’m a bachelor so this will meal will be great when I get in from fishing, and it’s all in one pot.
Thanks,
Bruce