Our house runs on Crockpot meals and casseroles. This is one of our favorite Crockpot meals that everyone in our family loves, especially our two year old! It is always in our regular cycle of meals we go through.
I don’t know about you, but I love meals where I dump it all in the Crockpot and not worry about it anymore until right around dinner time. It basically does the cooking for you. I don’t love standing over a hot stove forever and getting sweaty and smelling like food. I also don’t always have time for that with two young kids running around.
The best part is it only takes your Crockpot and a mixing bowl. We like to have crescent rolls on the side, which only takes a baking sheet! Leaving me with only a Crockpot, mixing bowl, baking sheet, and whatever dishes we use for the meal to wash after dinner is done.
Now, this recipe calls for potatoes, chicken breasts, frozen vegetables, cream of chicken soup, milk, ranch seasoning, and butter. It all comes together to create one tasty meal! We love to serve it with crescent rolls.
For most of the meals I make, I use easy to store long term ingredients. Pretty much every ingredient can be stored easily long term except the chicken and potatoes. Potatoes last a while, but not forever. I use these for many of my meals, so we always get through them before they start going bad. But, I have a hack for my chicken to make it store more long term.
For the chicken, I buy *frozen chicken* from Costco in bulk. I put my chicken in the Crockpot frozen and have had no issues doing that.
*Side note, I have a hack for the frozen chicken breasts I buy from Costco! I don’t know if anyone else has this problem, but you know that giant bag of frozen chicken breasts? It is such a good deal, but in the past I stopped buying it because it would annoy me so much when all of the pieces would stick together and I could not just grab two without like six being stuck together. Well, now when I get home from buying it, I separate it into gallon size Ziplock bags with about 2-3 breasts in each bag. So, when I am cooking chicken, I just need to pull out one of the Ziplocks. It makes it so much easier!*
Let’s get into it!
First, you are going to peel and cut potatoes into about 1-inch chunks. Then, add the potatoes to the Crockpot, along with the chicken breasts and frozen vegetables.
Next, in a medium bowl, add the cream of chicken soup, milk, and ranch seasoning and give it a good whisk until it is well combined. Then, pour this mixture on top of everything in the Crockpot.
Then, cut up the stick of butter into about 4-5 pieces and add to Crockpot. Cook all of this on LOW for 6 hours.
Next, I will *shred the chicken* and then cook on LOW for another 30 minutes to an hour.
*My least favorite part about cooking chicken in the Crockpot was shredding chicken. So, I found a hack for this! I use my hand mixer to shred chicken right in the Crockpot. Just use it on the lowest setting and watch for splatter! Then, voilà! Your chicken is shredded!*
Finally, serve alone or with bread of your choice, crescent rolls are our favorite!
Dump-N-Go Crockpot Chicken Potato Stew
Ingredients
- 2 lbs potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks
- 2-3 chicken breasts
- 1 (12 oz) bag of frozen mixed vegetables
- 1 family size (26 oz) can of cream of chicken soup
- ½ cup milk
- 1 (1 oz) packet of ranch seasoning
- 1 stick of butter
Directions
- Peel and cut potatoes into about 1-inch chunks. Add potatoes to Crockpot with chicken breasts, and frozen vegetables.
- In a medium bowl, combine cream of chicken, ½ cup of milk, and ranch seasoning packet. Whisk together then pour over everything in the Crockpot.
- Cut up stick of butter into 4-5 pieces and add to Crockpot.
- Cook on LOW for 6 hours.
- Shred chicken.
- Cook on LOW for another 30 minutes to an hour.
- Serve alone or with bread of choice.