Crock Pot Creamy Ranch Chicken
Creamy Ranch Chicken is a crockpot favorite of ours. Savory and creamy ranch chicken and veggies are cooked together for one delicious meal!
I love my crock pot. I use it ALL the time and definitely year round. Slow cookers are little life savers, especially on busy days! It’s such a good feeling to get dinner prepped and out of the way first thing in the morning. The extra bonus is smelling it cook all day!
This Creamy Ranch Chicken is a big favorite of ours. It’s dinner all in one! You have your meat, potatoes and veggie all cooked and ready to eat once the time is up. I love that!
Not only is this recipe super convenient it is delicious. The ranch flavor is just perfect. Not too overpowering at all. My kids devour this and so does my hubby. It’s on the dinner rotation often at my house. 🙂
Give my Homemade Ranch Dressing Mix a try in this recipe. I bet you have all the ingredients in your pantry right now. 🙂
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Crock Pot Creamy Ranch Chicken
Ingredients
- 6 medium Russet potatoes cut into 2-inch pieces
- 2 cups baby carrots
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 large can (23 ounces) condensed cream of chicken soup
- 1 packet (1 ounce) dry ranch dressing mix
- 1/2 cup milk
- fresh chopped parsley optional
Instructions
- Spray a large crock pot (I use a 7 quart) with non-stick spray. Place cut potatoes and baby carrots in the bottom of crock pot. Lay chicken breasts over the top. Season with salt and pepper.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together cream of chicken soup, dry ranch dressing mix and milk. Pour this mixture evenly over the chicken.
- Cover with lid and cook on high heat 5 to 6 hours OR on low heat 8 to 9 hours. (*It is important to not remove the lid during the entire cook time.) Top each serving with fresh chopped parsley, if desired. Enjoy!
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Wow! This looks so hearty and flavorful! Love that it’s ranch flavored – one of my favorites!
if you use your own home made ranch, how much of that should you use
About 3 Tablespoons of my homemade mix equals the store-bought 1 ounce packet of Ranch seasoning mix.
Where is the recipe for the homemade dressing?/
Here’s the link to the homeade ranch dressing: https://life-in-the-lofthouse.com/creamy-ranch-dressing/
Are you talking about your dry ranch mix or the ranch dressing in liquid form? I don’t have any dry mix but I have liquid ranch dressing.
The dry mix!
I used the liquid Ranch in place of milk, using 1/2 cup then also added 1/2 cup chicken broth!
Where does the milk come in to this recipe?
Soounds good, Ranch dressing is costly
Just made this for the family, they LOVED it! They added shredded cheddar cheese to it after served and it was awesome! We will be having this again soon! Thanks for the recipe.
So where’s the directions for the ranch
The link is under the recipe card at the bottom of the post 🙂
I have a big family so I usually try to cook things where I have to shred chicken or something instead of having whole pieces of chicken and I use chicken thighs only due to texture reasons for my kids. if I use about 6-8 chicken thighs, which are usually smaller in size, would I need to double the other ingredients to make enough for 5 people, which include 3 adults 2 TEENS? Sometimes I also like leftovers for them for lunch if possible lol.
I made this for dinner last night. I’ve never had a more tender, moist, flavorful chicken in my life!!!!! Thank you!
How long did you cook it? I find chicken breasts get dry in the crock pot.
Thank you for another crockpot recipe! The crockpot recipes are my favorite… please keep them coming. It makes cooking SO EASY!
I love crockpot recipes! It seems like I always get stuck in a rut, making the same recipes over and over. This looks amazing! And I am definitely not opposed to convenience. 🙂
Made this for dinner today, but did it using the homemade cream of chicken. It definitely didn’t turn out, extremely watery. So bummed but I’m sure it will taste good anyway 🙂 just wanted to give the heads up that I would stick with the canned soup to get the right consistency.
Stefanie, I’m sorry it ended up watery when you used the homemade condensed soup. I ended up deleting that idea because others had the same problem. I would suggest everyone sticking with the canned version of condensed soup in this recipe. Thanks 🙂
Holly, So its ok to cook on low all day without adding any extra liquids such as chicken stock? Just wanted o check! : )
Yes, definitely don’t add any extra liquid! 🙂
Cld you use sour cream instead of milk?
No, the sour cream would curdle and it needs a thin liquid like milk 🙂
Thank you
Could I add cream of mushroom since i only have a small can of cream of chicken?
I did and it came out very good.
I found an idea for crock pot cooking. Fold several paper towels and put over crock pot before putting the lid on. Cooks great and the paper towel catches the condensation.
You only need to do that if you are baking in it. Otherwise the condensation adds to the liquids you’re cooking with.
I learned this & do it every time. it actually helps cook the vegetables better imo!
I put this on this morning with 2 chicken breasts, Carlotta and sweet potatoes. I only had one can of cream of chicken so I used a little extra milk and a little chicken broth. Will this still be ok or should I add something more?
“Carrots” darn autocorrect
Were your chicken breasts fully defrosted Stefanie? If there’s any freeze left on the chicken it’ll thin out the sauce when it cooks.
Great point, Shannon!
I was thinking the same thing. To avoid extra water the chicken needs to be fully thawed and then I pat them dry as much as I can before cooking. I think water is injected into most chicken breast bought at the store, especially frozen ones.
Mine came Out extra watery too. Chicken breast was fully thawed and followed instructions for home made cream of chicken. I think it’s just the chicken breast that made it so funny. Sad face!
Made this for Sunday dinner since it was cold and rainy here. For some color, I added a small bag of frozen peas in about 30 minutes before serving. It turned out delish! Definitely adding this to my go to meal collection.
Adding peas sounds great! Definitley trying that next time. Glad you liked the recipe! 🙂
What about using boneless thighs instead of breasts?
Yes, that would work and be extra delicious!
Question, I’d like to add broccoli and cauliflower but not sure how long it’d need at the end, 30 min, 1 hour? What do you think?
Hi Erika! I would say to add it about one to two hours before it’s all done cooking. 🙂
I am going to add green beans the last 30 min to this. Sounds so good.
Do you use frozen or thawed chicken breasts? Thx!
I only use thawed chicken in the crock pot. Never frozen. Personal preference:)
When cooking in a traditional slow cooker (not an Instant Pot or other multi cooker) you should never use frozen meat as bacteria can start to grow on it before the slow cooker comes to temperature.
Absolutely one of my family’s new favorites! Simple to make & super yummy! I used the additional recipe for making my own cream of chicken. Thank you!
So glad it was a hit for you!
This is amazingly easy to make and so yummy! My husband said it’s a keeper! I was out of cream of chicken & used the additional recipe. Thank you so much!
i am making this it looks so good love using my crock pot .my e- mail changed to [email protected] ok rosemarie johnson thank you
This sounds so good, but I only have a small crockpot … 1 1/2 quarts. Do you think it would work in that? If so, can you please help me with altering the recipe? I would love to get what I need from the store later and make this tonight! Thanks so much!
could not find the recipe for homemade ranch dressing ???
Sorry Mary, somehow the link got deleted. Here it is: https://life-in-the-lofthouse.com/creamy-ranch-dressing/
This is a vary interesting site. Love the rescipes.
This recipe sounds wonderful! We’ve got our son, daughter-in-law and 4 year old granddaughter coming to spend a few days, so I’ll make this one evening for dinner so we can enjoy “pool time” together!!!
DITTO. Love these crock pot recipes for hot days and pool days. Got it cooking up now. YUMMY! Thank you for sharing and commenting.
Could this be done in an oven, if so what temp and how long? Sounds yummy.
I doubled the recipe and used a lg roaster covered with tin foil. It takes about 2 hrs. It seemed the carrots take the longest to cook. This definetly was a great dish. My oven temp was set at 400.
Do you still add 1/2 cup of milk to the homemade soup?? Do I also add more homemade dressing mix??
Can you use chicken thighs and should it be cooked the same amount of time?
Plan on making this tomorrow for dinner. Anything that’s easy is my cup of tea! I’ll let you know how it works. Thank you for this recipe.
What a great looking recipe! I can’t wait to try it. Thanks for linking the two homemade recipes as well. We just moved to Liberia for two years and although some foods are available, they come at a hefty price (Philly cream cheese is almost $9!!) so I will definitely be utilizing these. Thanks again! 🙂
This probably sounds dumb, but do you need to stir it around so the potatoes don’t burn? I don’t use the crock pot often, I’m new to it.
Would the recipe have to be altered to use chicken thighs?
Aug 26,15. This. was delicious!! We will have it again, it was easy also !
Do you know the nutritional info for this by chance? 🙂
Lol I guess not
This can be made with frozen chicken, also adding half a block of cream cheese at the end and letting it melt , then stirring ( about last 30 min ) takes it to the next level
Mine turned out mediocre. I didn’t have a big can of cream of chicken so I used one small and one cream of onion. It wasn’t the greatest but wasn’t horrible either. i wondered if this could frozen and reheated at a later time? It’s too much for one person.
Is it ok to use dry ranch dip mix? I don’t have the dressing mix.
Yes, Amber, that would work too!