This crock pot chicken and stuffing is the easiest comfort food you’ll ever make! Toss everything into the slow cooker and let the magic happen!
Alright, so I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I often eat a bowl of Stove Top Stuffing for breakfast.
Hold up. Don’t leave me. I swear I’m not insane.
It’s just, as a kid, I never liked or ate oatmeal, but some days I needed something warm and hearty and…Stove Top Stuffing was there for me, man. And I never outgrew the habit.
I know it’s totally unhealthy. I know that I’m an adult and should make better choices.
I know that I am strange.
But, y’all. It’s so darn good!
I’m going to really freak you out when I say this, but I always melt a piece of the weird plastic-y orange American cheese over the top of it and stir it all together.
I KNOW.
I am weird. Please do not be frightened.
Annnnnnyway. Let’s forget I said anything and instead talk about this Crock Pot Chicken and Stuffing, which I swear is really good and totally normal and even though I eat weird things sometimes, you can totally trust me.
You don’t trust me anymore, do you?
Also, don’t lie.
You have some weird food secret that you’ve never shared with the Internet before. I dare you to share it in the comments.
It’ll be like a little support group down there, all of us sharing our weirdness and coming together to stop the hate.
So, back to this slow cooker chicken and stuffing. It’s pure comfort food and it’s tossed together in a flash.
I started with a bag of dry stuffing cubes, stirred in some chopped celery and onion, mixed that all up with some cream of chicken (try my cream of chicken soup substitute, if you like!), a tiny bit of broth, and then seasoned it with a little sage.
I plopped a couple chicken breasts on top of all that and let the slow cooker do it’s magic! Easy peasy.
A lot of you have tried putting the chicken breasts on the bottom of the slow cooker (I have too, because it seems like the obvious way to do it), but I don’t love it that way.
The chicken releases a lot of juice and if it’s all sitting at the bottom, the stuffing on bottom is soggy and the stuffing on top is dry.
If you put your chicken on top of the stuffing, the juices soak down into the stuffing to come out with the right consistency.
I’ve tested this recipe multiple times and I like the level of moistness with the amounts called for in this recipe. Feel free to increase or decrease liquids to suit your tastes, but know that I’ve tested this and think this is the best. 😉
This recipe takes about 4 1/2 hours in the slow cooker and it’s going to taste like a slow cooker full of Thanksgiving goodness that you can eat any time of the year.
I recommend that you make this a whole big feast and serve it with my roasted sweet potatoes and pumpkin crunch cake to really bring home that Thanksgiving at random times of the year feel.
Or just be normal and eat it with a salad. Whatevs.
Hope you guys enjoy!
Crock Pot Chicken and Stuffing
Ingredients
- 14 ounce bag dried seasoned stuffing mix
- 1 sweet onion diced
- 1/2 cup diced celery
- 2 cans 10 ounces each cream of chicken soup
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon ground sage
- 1 1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Spray a slow cooker with non-stick spray.
- Add the stuffing mix, onion, celery, cream of chicken soup, and chicken broth to the slow cooker and stir to combine.
- Sprinkle the sage over the top.
- Lay the chicken breasts on top of the stuffing mixture and season with salt and pepper.
- Cover and cook on low for 4 hours 30 minutes or until chicken cooks through.
- Shred the chicken with two forks or remove to a cutting board and slice into small pieces.
- Stir everything together and serve.
Carissa says
Currently cooking but here are my modifications.
Used fresh sourdough bread from a local bakery, dried it in the oven so I have these lovely huge chunks of bread.
Added mushrooms and garlic and jalepeno to the stuffing mix.
Layered fresh sage over top of the stuffing mix in the instant pot. Then layered chopped red potatoes.
I also used chicken thighs. I wanted bone in chicken thighs, but I could not find any, so boneless thighs for me.
Used the cream of chicken soup substitute linked (it smelled delicious while cooking it) but first I sauteed some mushrooms and garlic before melting the butter. I also added some fresh savoury herbs when I added the milk and broth.
Joseph says
2 cans of cream chicken 1/2 cup chicken broth 2 chicken breast and I have a sloppy mess.
Karly says
Did you stir the stuffing all together? It will be very moist, but it always come together for me using the 14 ounce bag of dried stuffing mix. I use the bigger cubes of stuffing, not something like Stove Top.
Tammy says
Can you make sure own stuffing mix from scratch?
Karly says
I’m sure you could, but I’ve never done so for this recipe. You’d want to be sure it’s very dry like the packaged kind.
Connie says
I would never judge anyone on what they eat. As a kid, and still as an adult, I like to eat white bread, with ketchup and sliced cheddar cheese, or bread with butter and sugar.
This Recipe looks delicious and I can’t wait to try it this week. It has all my favorite stuff. One can never get enough Stove Top. Thanks for sharing.
Malinda Missel says
Can this be made in the oven?
Karly says
I’m not sure, I’ve only made this as directed.
Fred says
This is so good! I like to put a whole chicken on top of the stuffing mix instead of just beasts. I’ve also tried with with 2 cornish hens. . The juices from the chicken soak into the stuffing mix. I cook it a little longer, just have to test final temperature with a probe.
Chuck Taylor says
This has good to be one of the best recipes ever created for a crockpot. First it’s extremely simple to make. Next, it’s solves that ‘I want Thanksgiving dinner, but don’t want to make it conundrum’. Taste….spot on. FINALLY, and maybe the most important bonus of this recipe is the LEFTOVERS. One of the greatest sandwiches ever created is the ‘Bobby’ from Capriotti’s sandwich shop. Turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce on a roll….is to die for. This chicken and stuffing recipe makes it so easy to recreate a Bobby without having to cook a whole Turkey. Thank you so much!
Karly says
So glad you enjoyed, Chuck! The Bobby sounds amazing!
Joyce Lee says
I have been looking for a good chicken dressing recipe i cant wait to try this with cornbread stuffing cubes! Thank you so much!
Venieta McLeod says
A little bit of science: When people are talking about how dry/moist the recipe turns out, they need to know that chickens DO have different levels of water/fat! If you ever roast a whole chicken and look at the liquid, you may be able to tell how much is fat and how much is water. Chill the liquid, measure fat vs water, and then compare to what you see the next time you roast a chicken. No only are there differing amounts of these two liquids, but they are absorbed differently by the stuffing, sometimes resulting in different results. Recommend checking 2/3 of the way through the cooking, and if you notice things looking a bit dry, add a little broth – a VERY SMALL amount, perhaps a few tablespoons – to the stuffing.
Greta F. says
Hi. I made this today and followed everything, and my stuffing is a big soggy mess. Literally inedible. Not sure what happened. Is there anything I can do to fix this??
Karly says
Hi Greta! Not sure how you can fix it, unfortunately. Did you happen to add more chicken than called for or additional liquid/less stuffing? If you used frozen breasts, perhaps they released more liquid as they thawed and cooked? I’ve never had this issue before – the stuffing is definitely very moist, but I don’t think it’s super soggy…you can see the texture in the photos and video.
Kimberly says
I would love to try this recipe but I can’t find a 14 ounce bag dried seasoned stuffing mix. All I can find at the stores is Stove Top stuffing and Mr’s Cubbison’s stuffing (both in boxes) Can you suggest a brand to look for or a place to find it? I’m in central CA. Thanks for your help. I really want to try this recipe.
Karly says
I use Pepperidge Farms brand. It’s usually on the bottom shelf below the Stove Top. 🙂
Lindsay says
I made this with stovetop and frozen chicken breast. And 5 hours in and it’s mushy and the stuffing did not hold up well. Any suggestions to fix this so I don’t have to make a second dinner tonight?
Karly says
I would recommend using the bag of dried stuffing cubes rather than Stove Top as they’re bigger and will hold up better. Thawed chicken is probably best as well as it will cook a bit quicker so the stuffing holds up better. But this does get a bit mushy – stuffing is supposed to be wet though. 🙂
Greta says
Lindsay-same here. But my chicken breasts weren’t even frozen. I realize this is months later… lol. I’m going to put mine in the over to see if I can “dry out” the stuffing.
Michele Silva says
Can it be made without the chicken breasts? I want to make this for Thanksgiving so I won’t need the chicken since we are going to be having turkey. Thank you
Karly says
I haven’t tried this without the chicken. They release quite a bit of liquid that adds to the stuffing, so I’m not sure it would work that well.
Allison Dunn says
Could this be doubled? 2 bags of stuffing, 4 cans of soup, etc? more chicken maybe?
Karly says
I think it probably could be if you had a large enough crockpot, but I haven’t tried it myself.
Becky says
I’m trying it today, hope it works being doubled.
Allison Dunn says
Could this be doubled? 2 bags of stuffing, 4 cans of soup, etc?