Slow Cooker Ranch Chicken

Slow Cooker Ranch Chicken – a weeknight family favorite!! Only 5 ingredients! Chicken, cream cheese, cream of chicken soup, chicken broth and ranch dressing mix. Serve over pasta, grits, rice or potatoes. Everyone cleaned their plate and asked for seconds! That never happens!!! This recipe is a keeper! #slowocoker #chicken #weeknightdinner

Easy Ranch Chicken Recipe

My slow cooker might be my favorite small appliance. I love being able to dump everything in the slow cooker and come back to dinner. This Slow Cooker Ranch Chicken is a weeknight favorite!! SO creamy and delicious! This only takes about 5 minutes to throw together and dinner is ready when you are!!

How to Make Slow Cooker Ranch Chicken

There is a tiny bit of prep work for this chicken. Combine cream cheese, ranch seasoning, chicken broth, and cream of chicken soup in a saucepan. Heat the mixture just until the cheese has melted and is smooth. Place the chicken in the crockpot and pour the sauce on top. Cover and cook on LOW until the chicken is done. Heating the sauce on the stovetop for a minute will eliminate any chunks or curdling from the cream cheese.

• Can use any cut of chicken you prefer – breasts, thighs, or tenderloins.
• I prefer to use Philadelphia Cream Cheese in this recipe. I find that it melts the best.
• If you are sensitive to the ranch dressing mix, adjust the amount to your personal preference.
• Here is the recipe to our Homemade Ranch Dressing Mix: https://www.plainchicken.com/homemade-ranch-dressing-mix/
• For a gluten-free dish, use gluten-free cream of chicken soup and serve over rice or potatoes.
• Feel free to add vegetables to the mixture – potatoes or broccoli would be delicious.
• I serve the chicken as whole breasts. Feel free to shred the chicken if you prefer.

What to Serve with Ranch Chicken

We served this Slow Cooker Ranch Chicken on top of pasta with the sauce from the slow cooker. Don’t let all that yummy sauce go to waste! Spoon it over the chicken. It is too good to waste!!! If you don’t want to serve this over pasta, grits, potatoes or rice would also be delicious.

We serve this with green beans and rolls. Here are a few of our favorite recipes from the blog that go great with this yummy chicken:

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Slow Cooker Ranch Chicken

Author: Plain Chicken

Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 4 hours hrs

Total Time 4 hours hrs 10 minutes mins

Slow Cooker Ranch Chicken – a weeknight family favorite!! Only 5 ingredients! Chicken, cream cheese, cream of chicken soup, chicken broth and ranch dressing mix. Serve over pasta, grits, rice or potatoes. Everyone cleaned their plate and asked for seconds! That never happens!!! This recipe is a keeper! #slowocoker #chicken #weeknightdinner

Equipment:

• 6-qt Slow Cooker

Ingredients:

• 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 1 (8-oz) package cream cheese
• 1 (10.5-oz) can cream of chicken soup
• ½ cup chicken broth
• 1 (1-oz) packet Original Ranch Dressing Mix
• pasta rice or potatoes for serving

Instructions:

• Place chicken in a 6-qt slow cooker.
• Combine cream cheese, cream of chicken soup, chicken broth and Original Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing Mix in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat until combined. Pour over chicken.
• Cover and cook on LOW for 4 to 6 hours.
• Serve over pasta, rice or potatoes.

Notes:

Can use any cut of chicken you prefer – breasts, thighs, or tenderloins.

I prefer to use Philadelphia Cream Cheese in this recipe. I find that it melts the best.

If you are sensitive to the ranch dressing mix, adjust the amount to your personal preference.

Here is the recipe to our Homemade Ranch Dressing Mix: https://www.plainchicken.com/homemade-ranch-dressing-mix/

For a gluten-free dish, use gluten-free cream of chicken soup and serve over rice or potatoes.

Feel free to add vegetables to the mixture – potatoes or broccoli would be delicious.

I serve the chicken as whole breasts. Feel free to shred the chicken if you prefer.

Plain Chicken

https://www.plainchicken.com/slow-cooker-ranch-chicken/

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Steph