Cooktop Cove: Pour gravy mix over chicken for a new spin on a classic dish
By Robin Donovan
This easy slow-cooker chicken and gravy recipe is the best kind of comfort food. Juicy chicken breasts napped in a hearty and flavorful sauce are food for the body and the soul. To make this recipe even more appealing, the ingredients go into your slow cooker in the morning, and the dish cooks, hands-free, while you go about your day.
If you like, you can add vegetables to make this into a one-pot meal. Mushrooms go especially well with the flavor profile here, and they'll also hold up nicely to hours of slow cooking. Egg noodles or rice round out the meal.
Chicken and gravy
4
10 minutes
4 hours
4 hours and 10 minutes
2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 packets chicken gravy mix
1 10 ½-ounce can cream of chicken soup
1 ½ cups water
⅛ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons cornstarch whisked with 2 tablespoons water
Arrange the chicken breasts in the slow cooker in a single layer.
In a mixing bowl, stir together the gravy mix, soup, water and pepper. Pour the mixture over the chicken breasts.
Cover and cook on high for 4 hours or on low for 8 hours.
Shred the chicken in the slow cooker, and then stir everything together. Stir in the cornstarch mixture and cook, covered, on high for about 10 more minutes until the sauce thickens.