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Slow Cooker Pigs in a Cornfield involves corn on the cob, pork, and potatoes cooked together for an easy, hearty meal.
This recipe is so unique! Pork chops can be made in so many variations, also try my pork chop cacciatore or my pork chops and onions recipe.
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What are pigs in the cornfield?
This recipe Slow Cooker Pigs in a Cornfield is a request from a gentleman named Buford, a fan from my YouTube channel. Before he suggested this recipe, I had not heard of this recipe before.
If you’ve never heard of this meal before, then you may be wondering just where in the world it came from. I couldn’t find where it originated, but what I could find attributed this dish to cowboys or over the fire cooking.
With those guys and gals in mind, the ingredients make sense! The corn on the cob serves as the “cornfield,” while the fillers of the field are pigs, AKA pork chops (and bacon). The rest of the ingredients add a hearty kick to the overall meal.
Recipe Ingredients
- Cream of Mushroom Soup: You’ll need 2 cans and don’t need to add water.
- Milk: Helps create a creamy gravy-like base.
- Corn: Make it easy and grab a bag of frozen half ears.
- Potatoes: Small potatoes, diced.
- Onion: White onion, diced.
- Pork Chops: Grab a pack of about 2 pounds to ensure plenty of servings.
- Bacon: All you need are about 8 slices, cooked, and drained.
- Seasonings: Salt, black pepper, and dried leaf thyme.
- (The full recipe is in the recipe card below the photos).
Step-by-Step Directions
Step One – Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray and add the frozen corn standing them up on their ends in a ring around the outer edge of the slow cooker.
Step Two – Add potatoes in the middle of the corn. Sprinkle over onion.
Step Three – Add the pork chops on top of the corn and potatoes. Sprinkle over the cooked bacon.
Step Four – In a medium-sized bowl add the cream of mushroom soup, milk, salt, pepper and thyme. Whisk until smooth. Spread the soup mixture over the top of everything. Cover and cook on LOW for 7 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time. Serve and enjoy!
How to Serve
- This recipe has everything you need for a one-pot meal. Serve one of the pork chops along with potatoes and corn on the cob.
- This meal also pairs perfectly with homemade buttered biscuits and/or cornbread.
- If you want to add extra vegetables, you can’t go wrong with green beans and carrots.
Want to make in a dutch oven?
Going camping and want to use a dutch oven? The YouTube channel Outdoor Cast Iron has an amazing Dutch Oven Pigs in a Cornfield Recipe.
Recipe FAQs
Yes, fresh corn will work just as well as frozen corn.
Yes, different recipes use chorizo, ground sausage like Jimmy Dean’s breakfast sausage, or cubed chicken. But, if you don’t use pork, you can not call it pigs in a cornfield. 🙂
Any remaining pigs in the cornfield can be stored in an airtight container and kept in the fridge for up to 4 days. Reheat in the microwave, stove top, or in the oven.
More Pork Chop Recipes:
- Slow Cooker Minnesota Pork Chops
- Slow Cooker Sweet Baby Ray’s Pork Chops and Potatoes
- Slow Cooker Pork Chop Stroganoff
- Slow Cooker Alpine Pork Chops
- Slow Cooker Pork Chop Cacciatore
- Slow Cooker Pork Chops and Onions
Slow Cooker Pigs in a Cornfield
Ingredients
- 21 oz. cream of mushroom soup (two 10.5 oz. cans), (don’t add water)
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- 3/4 tsp. dried leaf thyme
- 6 half ears of corn, (from freezer section of store)
- 5 small potatoes, diced small
- 1 white onion,, diced
- 2 lbs. pork chops
- 8 slices bacon, sliced, cooked and drained
Instructions
- In a medium-sized bowl add the cream of mushroom soup, milk, salt, pepper and thyme. Whisk until smooth. Set aside.
- Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray.
- Add the frozen corn standing them up on their ends in a ring around the outer edge of the slow cooker. Add potatoes in the middle of the corn. Sprinkle over onion.
- Add the pork chops on top of the corn and potatoes. Sprinkle over the cooked bacon. Spread over the soup mixture over the top of everything.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 7 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Sarah’s Notes
Nutrition
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Can you cook in Insta pot?
If so, do you know how long and what setting?
Hi! I have not tested, I apologize.
Have you tried the instant pot yet? My sister sent me this recipe and I wanted to try it but don’t have 7 hours lol
I’ve tried with pork chops I’m going to try chicken breast should I cut in pieces or just leave whole
I would cut into pieces or at least in half.
I made this tonight and it was a 10! I did season the potatoes and the chops (also used bone in chops) very well and cooked it exactly 7hrs without lifting the lid like it said. The chops were fall off the bone tender, the potatoes were perfectly cooked, and everything was seasoned well and delicious! Hubs said it was a 20/10! It will definitely be a regular monthly in this house.
What did you use to season your potatoes and chops?
Wouldn’t the corn be mushy from being in the slow cooker for 7 hrs?
No, just as a can of corn in a chili doesn’t get mushy. And these start out frozen.
So yummy hubby kinda picky husband it for 2 days
What?
Food was good. Husband picky. Husband ate it for 2 days.
I will be trying a variation on this. In the household there are non-pork eaters, so chicken will be used. Also will be adding carrots.
And wondering if topping it with biscuits for the last hour would work? Hmm…may have to make this several times!
The biscuits may be more like dumplings.
We made this last night..had to add some seasoning and chicken broth because it just tasted like cream of mushroom soup. We shredded the pork chops and are gonna add some cream to it and serve it over egg noodles tonight. It was good but needed doctoring
Want to make this , looks great. Any advice on how to make this with less sodium? Maybe some sort of substitute for the second can ? Thanks !! 🙂
Hi, I know the soup can be found in lower sodium (maybe called healthy choice?). Though pork has SO much sodium. May be better to use chicken. Sorry I’m not much help.
Use chicken instead of pork.
Make your own thick cream of mushroom (white sauce) with heavy cream and/or milk. You can salt or not salt as much or as little as you like. I do not use canned soups in the recipes that call for it unless I don’t have the time to make my own sauce.
This is a great recipe. Simple. Easy. Delicious.
Making it today!!
Let me know how you like it!
Been using stuffed pork chops I get from the meat market. They are the bomb dot com!!! LoL
such a great idea!
So I’m going to be making this on Sunday And the last time I tried to do potatoes in the crockpot they still came out a little raw has anybody had a problem with this recipe let me know please
Yes! I’m cooking now and after 7 hrs still a bit raw. What did you do?
It’s not raw, pork often stays pink in the slow cooker. Check the temprature.