Slow-Cooker Italian Chicken

Name: Slow-Cooker Italian Chicken
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 4 h 15 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts; 1 packet (0.6 oz) zesty Italian dressing and recipe mix; 1 can (10.75 oz) cream of chicken soup; 1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened; Milk (optional); Pasta or rice, for serving

11 Ratings

10 Comments

Prep 15 min
Total 4 hr 15 min
Servings 6

A creamy Italian chicken with a zesty kick that is made in a slow cooker. MORE+ LESS-

By Girl Who Ate Everything

Updated October 23, 2017

Ingredients

boneless, skinless chicken breasts

packet (0.6 oz) zesty Italian dressing and recipe mix

can (10.75 oz) cream of chicken soup

package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened

Milk (optional)

Pasta or rice, for serving

Steps

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1

Place the chicken in a slow cooker and sprinkle the Italian dressing over it.
2

Combine cream cheese and cream of chicken soup in a small pot over low heat and pour over chicken.
3

Cook on low for 4 hours or until chicken is done. Once the chicken is done you can take it out and shred it or cube it depending on your preference. Return chicken to slow cooker.
4

Add milk to the sauce to get it to your preferred consistency. Serve over cooked pasta or rice.

Nutrition Information

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More About This Recipe

My slow cooker is on overload now that summer is here. I just can’t bare to turn on the oven and heat up the house. This Slow Cooker Italian Chicken is a family favorite in our house, especially with my oldest son. He requests this meal for his birthday every year. It’s a meal I know the whole family will eat without complaint, and those are hard to find. We refer to this as “Batman Pasta” in our house because we serve it over bow-tie pasta that my kids think look like Batman. This meal comes together quickly with just a few ingredients thrown into the slow cooker. It’s definitely one of those staple meals that you will frequently go back to. Dry Italian dressing is used to season the chicken and give it a zesty kick. The cream cheese sauce is great served over rice or pasta. The simple ingredients combined together smell amazing when cooking all day. Serve this with warm garlic bread and a garden salad to make this meal complete. Oh and the leftovers are great – not that you will have any!
Use low fat cream cheese and fat – free cream of chicken soup to make a lighter version of this meal.
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