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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
This chicken stew is perfect for a weeknight meal on a cold day, or for any time you’ve got some leftover chicken to use up.
If you like this, try Mushroom Crock Pot Cube Steak & Gravy and some Buttery Garlic Mashed Potatoes. Or try making some Homemade Bread Bowls for a different way to serve the stew.
Reader Review
A perfect recipe, for me I can’t stand for too long as I’m waiting for a hip operation. I didn’t add the mushrooms, just a parsnip instead and two teaspoons of Mixed herbs and two tablespoons of tomato paste, just put everything in my slow cooker, it was delicious my husband and I enjoyed it so much . I made a big batch of it.
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This is an easy recipe.
- Total Time: It takes about 8.5 hours to make this stew.
- Variations: Play with the exact amounts of the vegetables, use different vegetables, in whatever combination you prefer. Make some Cajun Seasoning or Italian Seasoning, or use some of your own favourite spices to add more flavour.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a slow cooker, a cutting board and a knife, measuring cups, a small bowl, and a spoon.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Broth: This recipe calls for chicken broth, but vegetable broth would also work. You can try levelling up and using a homemade Bone Broth for even more nutrition, or just grab a carton from the store.
Chicken: This stew will work with any type of boneless chicken. Cubed chicken breasts, diced thighs, or shredded rotisserie chicken are all great options.
Vegetables: This can be any combination of vegetables you prefer. Potatoes, carrots, celery, mushrooms, and onions are the classic additions. Other root veggies like turnips, parsnips, or beets would also work.
Seasonings: Homemade or storebought poultry seasoning will enhance the simple flavours of this stew, but you can add
How to Make Slow Cooker Chicken Stew
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Place the chicken, vegetables, garlic, and seasoning to the slow cooker. Pour in the broth. Cook on low for 7-8 hours.
- Mix cornstarch and milk in a small bowl and add it to the stew. Stir or whisk in quickly so it doesn’t clump.
- Cook for 10 more minutes, until the stew thickens.
- Serve and enjoy.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Slow Cooker Chicken Stew
Chicken: If you choose to use a type of chicken that has already been cooked, like leftover chicken from your fridge or a grocery store rotisserie chicken, you won’t need to add it to the stew right at the beginning. It would only need to be heated through at the very end, so you can mix it into the stew once you’ve added the cornstarch slurry. Just long enough for it to be warmed.
More Vegetable Options: If you’d like to make this recipe even easier, you can use frozen mixed vegetables, any combination that you prefer. Carrots and peas, or some corn, would be perfect choices. Sweet potato, butternut squash, parsnip, or turnip will all cook at a similar speed as the potatoes. Broccoli, cauliflower, or zucchini will all cook faster, so you may want to add them later on in the cook time.
Storage Instructions
Fridge: Once it has fully cooled, you can store the leftover stew in a closed container in the fridge for 2-3 days.
Freezer: Store the stew in a sealed container for 3-4 months. For easier defrosting, store in multiple small containers. That way, you can take out single servings to defrost and reheat quickly.
More Delicious Recipes
Looking for some sides to make along with the stew?
Buttery, soft Parker House Rolls are perfect to round out the meal.
Bacon Cheddar Biscuits are fast and easy.
Cheddar Waffle Biscuits are always delicious and a fun twist on the normal biscuits!
There we go, everyone. An easy stew that you can get started before you leave the house for the day for a filling dinner when you come home.
Happy Cooking!
Karlynn
Slow Cooker Chicken Stew
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 medium skinless, boneless chicken breast , cut into large chunks , see notes about chicken
- 2 cups diced potatoes
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 2 cups sliced carrots
- 1-2 stalks celery, chopped
- 1 pound mushrooms, washed and sliced in half
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1-2 teaspoons poultry seasoning , adjust to taste
- 6 cups chicken broth, more to thin out if needed at the end
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- ½ cup heavy cream
Instructions
- Place the chicken, vegetables, garlic and seasoning into the slow cooker.
- Pour the chicken broth over the vegetables.
- Cook on low for 7-8 hours, until the vegetables are soft.
- Take the cornstarch and mix it into the cream.
- Stir into the stew, quickly whisking it in.
- Cook the stew for 10 minutes more, letting it thicken. You may add more cornstarch to get your desired thickness. If it's too thick, add more broth.
- Serve and enjoy.
Notes
- You may need to adjust the amount of broth or cornstarch, all depending on how juicy your vegetables are! Add more broth if it’s too thick, add more cornstarch if it’s too thin.
- Use 2-3 cup of already cooked chicken meat and add it at the end if you want to use leftovers!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Rachel Green says
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Selina says
INCREDIBLY bland. Despite working almost 20 years restaurants and kitchens I’m not even really sure what to use to fix the flavor. Also I used at least 6 tbsp of cornstarch and it still did not thicken. AT ALL. Also you may want to put your heavy cream at room temperature when I added the slurry into the crock pot it made it look like the cream had curdled. Thankfully it did not but it definitely does not look creamy and smooth. Looks rather unappealing and tasteless for 8 hours of slow simmering.
Charles Cocuzza says
I haven’t made it yet, but I need to tell you I use Open Office to copy into, then I always have a problem printing with those small boxes in the ingredient list. I can’t see the numbers when I print the recipe. Those boxes print over the number, so I must delete them. which is a pain in you know where. Why is it, other writers who use them it never show up at all. Forgive my writing I’m 89 using 1 finger to type. I don’t use Msn Office, I never can find what I’m looking for since they made changes.
Dini says
How would I make this on the stove.
Corinne says
I followed the recipe. It failed. Or I failed. It has not thickened at all. Still like soup
Spent a lot of money on the vegetables to make this never mind the chicken breasts
Nicole says
great recipe. I left the chicken whole and shredded it at the end so I recommend that if you don’t want to spend any time cutting.
Vabessa says
This was really good. I added extra poultry seasoning and some parsley. I will definitely make this again
Kathy says
Used red onion, added half a chopped yellow pepper, and half a chunked zucchini because they needed to be used up. Added a T of tomato paste. Didn’t have mushrooms. Skipped the poultry seasoning.
I added 3c chicken broth, 1c hot water, pkg of chicken gravy mix and 3T minute tapioca so stew would thicken as it cooks. Skipped the cream and cornstarch.
Have made several times before so I switch it up. Sometimes I add 1.5c thawed green beans for the last 2 hrs or 1c of thawed peas for the last 10 min. I like a colourful meal.
Good basic recipe.
Mrs haydon says
A perfect recipe, for me I can’t stand for too long as I’m waiting for a hip operation. I didn’t add the mushrooms, just a parsnip instead and two teaspoons of Mixed herbs and two tablespoons of tomato paste, just put everything in my slow cooker, it was delicious my husband and I enjoyed it so much . I made a big batch of it.
Jackie says
This was perfect! Thanks for the recipe! Five stars!
Natasha Despres says
A hit even though my kids are fussy on stews…lol
Shanleigh Rice says
How would you go about making this without a slow cooker
BarryMason says
All around great recipe, thanks! I did add mushrooms, they are bloody fantastic in it. a keeper!
BarryMason says
well not wanting to be the one to be picky but prep time is about 30 minutes as well 😉
Excellent recipe it’s in the pot now i’ll post back how it turns out.
Frank Furter says
Minions loved it, thanks! Added less chicken and it worked out great.
Frank Furter says
Especially since E will only eat beige at the moment. And brocolli.
The Kitchen Magpie says
Luck! Cooking for kids = crapshoot