Healthy Slow Cooker Chicken Breast Recipe is an easy and delicious dish to make but packed with such an amazing flavor. Juicy, crockpot chicken breast served with broccoli and rice is my favorite HEALTHY and family approved DINNER recipe. But, if you need whole chicken, then check this Slow Cooker Rotisserie Chicken Recipe.
Slow Cooker Chicken Breast
Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Breasts are great for the MEAL PREP for the week. Staying incredibly moist and flavorful, these chicken breasts can be served as the main course, or shredded and used for another recipe. Try it for these: Cheese Chicken Enchilada Casserole, Chicken Parmesan Casserole , Chicken Alfredo Bake or BBQ chicken Roll Ups. However, having delicious, flavorful cooked chicken on hand is always helpful.
When I find delicious, easy and healthy chicken breast recipe, it immediately becomes my go-to weeknight dinner staple, like this Healthy Slow Cooker Chicken Breast Recipe. Chicken is on our dinner many at least a few times a week. However, chicken breast is my family favorites.
Healthy Chicken Breast Recipe
You can prepare chicken breasts on so many ways. But slow cooker chicken beast is always the best. In a crockpot, chicken is slow cooked to perfection. It stays tender and soft, never dries out and keeps all the flavors.
And not forget the most important thing, it’s really healthy! For this Healthy Slow Cooker Chicken Breast Recipe, you don’t need oil at all. The key is to use skin on chicken breast for this recipe. The skin adds flavor and the fat helps keep the meat tender while it cooks.
After all, healthy chicken breast recipe is much better choice for your family, than fried chicken, but it has amazing flavor, too. This time I used a bone-in skin on chicken breast split in halves. Fist, I rub it with the mixture of chili powder, paprika, garlic powder salt and freshly ground black pepper. Then, I arrange a single layer of sliced red onion in my slow cooker and place chicken breasts on top. Red onion gives aromatic base and prevent the chicken from sticking to the bottom of the dish.
How long do you cook chicken in the crock pot?
Cook until the chicken is tender and reach an internal temperature of 165°F. Cooking time depending on size and type of chicken breast you use and the brand of your slow cooker. For smaller boneless, skinless chicken breasts, it takes about 4 to 5 hours on low, or 2 to 3 hours on high.
But for bone-in skin on chicken breasts (weight more than 1 pound each, before splitting in half), it takes about 7-8 hours on low heat or high for 3 1/2 -4 hours. Just make sure to reach an internal temperature of 165 degrees F. That way you’ll get delicious, fall of the bone chicken breasts, that stays moist and tender keeping all the juiciness and flavors.
See also
Check More Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes:
Slow Cooker Rotisserie Chicken recipe is easy and healthy way to make homemade rotisserie style chicken! Delicious homemade rotisserie chicken can be served as the main course or shredded and used for another recipe.
Easy Crockpot Teriyaki Chicken in homemade Teriyaki sauce with garlic, honey and soy sauce, served with broccoli and rice as a side, is definitely healthy and easy meal for your family.
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Healthy Slow Cooker Chicken Breast Recipe
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Prep Time: 10- Cook Time: 240
- Total Time: 250
Yield: 4 1x
Category: dinner
Method: slow cooker
Cuisine: American
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Healthy Slow Cooker Chicken Breast Recipe is an easy and delicious dish to make but packed with such an amazing flavor. Staying incredibly moist and flavorful, these chicken breasts can be served as the main course, or shredded and used for another recipe.
Ingredients
- 2 red onion-sliced
- 2 bone-in skin on chicken breasts split in halves
- 1 ½ teaspoons garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons chilli powder
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper-to taste
Instructions
- Arrange sliced red onion in the single layer to cover the bottom of your slow cooker.
- In a small bowl stir together chilli, paprika, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Rub the chicken breasts generously and place on top of the onion.
- Cover and cook 3 ½ to 4 hours on high or until the chicken is tender and reach an internal temperature of 165°F.
- Drizzle with the liquid from the bottom of the slow cooker before serving.
Notes
Don’t use skinless breasts here, because the skin adds flavor and the fat helps keep the meat tender while it cooks.
23 comments
Hi! I just found this recipe on my search of an easy dinner! Don’t you need some liquid to cook in the slow cooker?
Hi Eva, you don’t need to add liquid, chicken will release it’s own juice while cooking.
What if I don’t have any onions
I always use celery instead of onion!
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would this work with boneless skinless breasts?
Hi Lainee, it could work, but skin keeps it from drying out and gives extra flavor.
What would the nutritional info be?
I was wondering could I add barbeque sauce to this? If so when should I add it?
I would add it an hour before the chicken breasts are cooked through to 165°.
If I were to use boneless skinless chicken breasts, should I add liquid to help keep it from drying out? If so, what liquid?
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Prepared this recipe exactly as written. Chicken breasts were skin on bone in and large. I estimated 6-7 hrs on low based on the recipe. Done after 5 hrs., But family not home and ready to eat. Turned temp setting to warm. Chicken looked beautiful but was dry and difficult to swallow. Most of it now leftover ready to be enchiladas tomorrow. There are too many variables here. Size of meat, size and efficiency of appliance, quality and age of chicken. If I were to try this again it would be on a weekend with no set mealtime and test temp of meat at 4 hrs.
You mention how long on high but not how long on low. I want to cook on slow. Hope many hours on slow?
I just found this, made it tonight and had to comment.
AMAZING. This is a keeper and will be shared. So tasty, moist, incredible!!
Thank you……
Thank you!
How long for 4 split breasts?
Unfortunately I don’t have red onion or celery at home. Any other advice for what I can put underneath? I have carrots and small potatoes on hand.
Carrots and/or potatoes would work too. Primary reason is to keep the chicken off the bottom of the pot. Add some onion powder to replace real onions.
Could you drizzle bottom with olive oil if doing veg separate?
Chicken was done after ~3 hours on high, but the potatoes and onions in the bottom of the crock needed 5 hours. I ended up just mixing/blending them together to make a weird mashed potato dish just to not waste them since we were done with dinner by then.
Can you use any onion! I don’t have any red onion!
If I don’t have red eye and can I use you all on them