Creamy, herby chicken with potatoes and vegetables is a great dish for the slow cooker to handle. What I love about these two recipes is that the chicken breasts are left whole, and the potatoes and vegetables are cut good and chunky which seems to add to the overall heartiness of the dish! Switch the chicken breasts for thighs if you prefer, it won't affect the overall recipe or cooking time.
Now if you love the idea of a chicken casserole dish, but aren't a fan of heavy, creamy sauces, then the first recipe that we're taking a look at is Rustic Chicken Slow Cooker Stew, from the excellently-named whoneedsacape.com? It's a slightly 'drier' version of creamy chicken that's an easy one to fix in the morning; simply place chicken, vegetables, parsley and seasonings into your crock pot and set to cook for 6 hours.
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When you get home, hungry and keen to eat; all you need to do is whisk a little cornstarch into some milk and add to the pot to cook and thicken for a further 15 minutes. That's just long enough to get changed and feed the cat before settling down to dinner!
Whoneedsacape.com also has some brilliant tips for freezing ready prepped 'cooking portions' of this dish. The idea is that you prepare bags of the ingredients needed for a complete meal so that you can simply throw the contents into the slow cooker in seconds on a busy morning. Neat idea, right? Whoneedsacape.com also goes on to mention that they don't usually include potatoes in the prepped freezer bags. We agree that raw potatoes can sometimes get a little watery or grainy when frozen, but that might not be a deal breaker for you.
If you're after a creamier, more soupy version of chicken stew, then head on over to life-in-the-lofthouse.com for a real family crock-pot classic!
The vegetables and chicken are laid in the slow cooker, then cream of chicken soup whisked up with some dry ranch dressing (homemade version here if you need it) poured over the top. You can cook this for 6 hours on high or a long, slow 8 - 9 hours on low. Any starchy potatoes will work here, so don't worry if you don't have Russets. Small, waxy, whole potatoes would work great too.
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life-in-the-lofthouse.com definitely delivers a slightly more indulgent, creamier version with some great herb and aromatic flavors from the ranch dressing. The pictures of the finished chicken breast really tell their own story…tender breast meat, creamy sauce and a scattering of fresh parsley. You just know how good that's going to taste!