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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Sarah,
Could I adapt this recipe to cook in my Dutch Oven?? If so, what temp and how long would you recommend cooking?
Can’t wait to try this one tomorrow either way!!
So good! I did it in the pressure cooker and might have cooked it a little too long. The chicken shredded easily and became more of a delicious stew, almost. Will make again! Thank you!
How long did you put it in the pressure cooker for, and did you make any modifications? I am planning to try this in my Instant Pot tonight!
I wonder if I could substitute corn on the cob for the green beans? My 7 year old doesn’t like green beans ♀️♀️♀️
Does the chicken skin come out crispy?
No, it does not. You can put the chicken on a sheet pan and put under the broiler if desired.
Definitely don’t need a whole cup of chicken broth for boneless, skinless, chicken breast. I only added a 1/2 cup of chicken broth and it turned out really soupy. Other than that, the flavour is good!
Can this be cooked on low for 8 hours?
I have not tried. I think 7 hours may work fine on low.
I made this dish for dinner. I used chicken quarters. Delicious super moist.
Can this be cooked on low for 8.5 hours or is it better to only use the high setting? Thanks.
If you were to cook this for 8 hrs the chicken would be quite rubbery and tough despite the sauce. Unlike tough cuts of beef or pork, chicken doesn’t get more tender with time. If you get home around 3ish, you could probably do this on high for 3-3.5 hours and still eat dinner at a reasonable time. (I’m of course assuming you wanted to cook this while at work or away for a long day)
hi, saw your recipe for the crockpot chicken and it looked delish.As soon as i saw it, couldnt wait to make it. I work weekends, so i made a monday night dinner! We loved it !!! even my daughter loved it. I saw the recipe said 8 ounce sauce, i knew it wasn’t going to be enough, so i doubled it. I also did a bit of cheating, since i don’t have a lot of kitchen gadgets. First, i bought the frozen diced potatos, since i didn’t know how to dice them and i bought the minced garlic spice. We loved that the flavors blended in with the potatos and green beans. The kitchen was smelling soooo good!!! This one is a keeper!!! My wife told me to keep the recipe. And yes, i love to cook.
So glad you could adapt it to your preferences! Thanks for letting me know.
Made this for tonight. Doubled the sauce and used 6 leg quarters. It was perfect. Used red potatoes and left skin in them. Seemed so simple yet tastes elegant. Will make again for sure. Sauce was perfect. Mixed seasonings in before I poured over the chicken. Needed to flip when I got home to get the sauce in the juices. Whole family agreed it’s a keeper.