Slow Cooker Garlic Butter Chicken and Veggies
Jun 14, 2022Updated Jun 19, 2025
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Make garlic butter chicken with veggies right in your slow cooker. Chicken tenderloins, baby carrots and gold potatoes are cooked to perfection in a homemade garlic butter sauce.
If you love easy chicken recipes, try my slow cooker chicken stew recipe and slow cooker cranberry chicken recipes.

Why this recipe works
This recipe isn’t for the faint of heart, this is for my butter loving friends. A stick of butter flavors this meal, but the entire meal. I add garlic, thyme, parsley, salt, and pepper to a stick of melted butter. I pour that garlic butter mixture over chicken, carrots, and wedges of Yukon gold potatoes.
Not all slow cooker meals end up being complete meals; I usually have to make a starchy side or make a salad. With this recipe, all the main food groups are covered. The chicken is tender, and so are the veggies. My favorite thing about this meal is the potatoes. There is something about butter and potatoes together that just can’t be beaten. I hope you give this recipe a try! It’s hearty like a pot roast dinner, but with chicken instead. Have a great week. I’ll be back at the end of the week with another recipe.
Recipe Ingredients

- Chicken tenderloins – These cook up perfectly and soak up the garlic butter. You can use boneless skinless chicken breasts if that’s all you have.
- Carrots – Use one pound of baby carrots or one pound of carrots cut into 1 inch chunks.
- Gold Potatoes – You can use red or gold potatoes, but we LOVE gold potatoes in this recipe.
- Garlic Butter Sauce – Salted butter, fresh minced garlic, thyme, parsley, salt and pepper.
Step-by-Step Directions

Step One – In a small bowl, add the melted salted butter and add minced garlic, salt, pepper, dried thyme, and dried parsley.
Step Two – Place chicken tenders (or breasts) in the middle of the slow cooker. On one side of that place wedges of Yukon gold potatoes and on the other a bag of baby carrots.
Step Three – Pour the garlic butter mixture over the chicken and veggies.
Step Four – Cover and cook on high for 4 hours or on low for 8 hours. Serve and enjoy! Plenty of buttery sauce for everyone!

Variations
- Green beans – Green beans cook up so well in the slow cooker, use them instead of the carrots for this garlic butter chicken recipe.
- Easy Peasy – Instead of making a garlic butter sauce. Use 2/3 cup of Italian dressing.
- Lemon Chicken – Add the juice of one large lemon to the garlic butter sauce. You can even add the zest of that lemon too.
- Parmesan – To make the flavor pop in this dish, sprinkle grated parmesan cheese on each individual serving.

Recipe FAQs
Olive oil can be used instead of butter if you are in pinch, though you won’t get as much flavor.
If you are looking to make this a healthy meal you can use chicken broth instead of butter, or water and a chicken bouillon cube.
Yes! You can use 2 teaspoons of Italian seasoning instead of the parsley and thyme.
Yes, chicken thighs are a great choice for this recipe. Though, be sure to trim them well.

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Slow Cooker Garlic Butter Chicken and Veggies
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs. boneless skinless chicken tenders, boneless skinless chicken breasts will work fine too
- 1 lb. bag baby carrots
- 1 1/2 lbs. Yukon gold potatoes, cut into wedges
- 1/2 cup salted butter, melted
- 1 Tbsp. minced garlic, (or one teaspoon garlic powder)
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- 1 tsp. dried thyme leaves, (not ground)
- 1 tsp. dried parsley
Instructions
- Add the chicken down in the middle of the slow cooker. Add the potatoes on one side and the carrots on the other side.
- In a small bowl mix together the butter, garlic, salt, pepper, thyme and parsley.
- Pour the butter mixture over the chicken and veggies.
- Cover and cook on HIGH for 4 hours or low for 6-8 hours.
- Serve and enjoy!
Sarah’s Notes
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:
Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken is a great meal prep staple you can use all week. Chicken, Potatoes and Green Beans or No Peek Chicken make easy, comforting one-pot dinners.
Try Slow Cooker Chicken Fajitas, or Chicken Enchilada Casserole when you’re craving bold, Tex-Mex flavor.
For something creamy and cozy, Slow Cooker Tuscan Chicken or Slow Cooker Chicken Stew always hits the spot.
This recipe is Fantastic!! My family and I absolutely loved it! I followed every step and it came out perfect : ) Can’t wait to make this again!
Can I add more potatoes to the recipe
Yes, though keep the lid on the entire time so they cook through.
Can I use regular potatoes and fresh asparagus?
I wouldn’t add asparagus until half way through. It cooks faster than carrots. Russets are fine.
Cooking this for tonight for the second time! My family loved it last time. This time, I am going to save all the drippings to use later in something!
I add mushrooms to this. Have also substituted boneless thighs. Everything is so delicious and easy to prepare.
When did you add the mushrooms? They didn’t have that rubbery texture did they?
My daughter loves this recipe. I love that it also is great for leftovers for lunch the next day. I have made this in the crockpot, but can this be made in the instant pot?
Such a great recipe, and so easy to prep. It is almost a weekly dish I make, perfect for busy weeknights, just a dump and go recipe and off to work I go!
Could I swap out fresh green beans
Yes, fresh green beans do great in this recipe.
I only have whole carrots, should I cut them into 3rds to make them the same size as baby carrots?
Yes, or into large chunks, like you would a stew.
This is an amazing recipe!! Thank you so much for sharing! I am going to make it again this week but am wondering if there is a way to substitute maybe half the butter or can I just use less? Thanks so much!
Yes, you can use less. I would add a little water or chicken broth and up the seasonings a bit.
I am 3 hours into cooking this meal. The house smells great. Can’t wait to serve my Wife dinner.
Thank You for Sharing.
This recipe is so ridiculously simple, versatile and delicious, you can’t go wrong! And if you’ve got teenagers heading home from sports who are starving, it’s guaranteed there will be absolutely none left.
Thank you Magical Slow Cooker for helping make my life just a little bit easier. Your recipes have come to my rescue over and over again!
Thank you for the kind comment. ❤️