Slow Cooker Full Chicken Dinner
164 Comments May 24, 2017
Updated Oct 12, 2024
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This Slow Cooker Full Chicken Dinner has tender chicken thighs, Yukon gold potatoes and green beans in a savory herb sauce.
If you love making one pot meals in your slow cooker, also try creamy ranch chicken and potatoes or slow cooker ham dinner.
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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.
For this meal, I use bone-in chicken thighs. I think if boneless skinless chicken is used in the recipe, the recipe will be dry.
The juices from the bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs help make a flavorful sauce along with the tomato sauce and seasonings. If you chose to use chicken breasts, add a cup of chicken broth.
How to make:
You will need these ingredients:
- Chicken thighs
- Cooking oil
- Yukon gold potatoes
- Fresh green beans
- Garlic
- Canned tomato sauce (not paste)
- Salt and pepper
- Dried thyme
- Dried Rosemary
- Add the oil to a pan on the stove-top set to medium-high heat. Brown the chicken thighs on both sides.
- Add the potatoes and green beans to the slow cooker. Place the chicken on top.
- Add remaining ingredients on top of the chicken and smear around evenly over the chicken.
- Place the lid on and cook for 4.5 hours on high.
This full chicken dinner is a great Sunday meal, set this up after lunch and no worries about dinner at all, scoop and serve when the timer goes off.
Slow Cooker Full Chicken Dinner
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 lbs bone-in chicken thighs
- 2 Tbsp. cooking oil
- 1 1/2 lbs. Yukon gold potatoes, diced
- 1 lb. green beans, ends snipped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 8 oz. can tomato sauce , (not paste)
- 1 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- 1/2 tsp. dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp. dried rosemary
Instructions
- Set a pan on the stove top and set to medium-high heat. Add the cooking oil and swirl 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!
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Nutrition
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Can you use white sauce instead of red sauce? I’m allergic to tomato sauce, so therefore I try to find recipe’s that only use white sauce. and this looks amazing.
Thanks,
I don’t see why not!
Not tried this yet, but I’m thinking of using red wine sauce.
I make this alot and it is awesome. I mix my spices and garlic in with the tomato sauce in a bowl mix it and then pour in on the chicken as the first time I made it according to the recipe it was not easy to mix.
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.
Great to hear about the frozen green beans!
Hi Sarah, do you have to brown the chicken before placing it in the crock pot with everything
You don’t have to. Though I would remove the skin before serving, for it will be soggy.
Hello Sarah! I made this dish for dinner last night and we loved it, I only put double the canned crushed tomato in it because that’s what the smallest can brings and I didn’t feel like putting the rest in the fridge (it gave me that way ), at the end of cooking and opening the lid I almost died when I saw that the preparation was swimming in sauce. Surprise! grinding the potatoes in the sauce was fantastic, the chicken melted in ours mouth. I promise to put the amount you say next time. Who knows, maybe we’ll go back to the bad recipe . Thank you dear Sarah and take care of yourself.
The chicken wasn’t soggy? It was crispy?
I will try this for sure and might also try it with porkchops as well.
I made this tonight. Used carrots, instead of green beans; added an onion & a yellow bell pepper. I used tomato sauce that already had spices in it & added some fresh basil. Chicken was skinless, boneless breasts.
I cooked it for 2hrs on HI & 1 hr on Low. More than ready to be eaten.
I am eating it now & it is delicious! I will make it again, to be sure
Very boring dish. I follow it exactly. It needs some pizzaz.
This is really good . I’ve made this several times .
Would sliced onion be good in this
Yes, I think so.
I don’t see why not