Crock Pot Chicken & Dressing
This easy version of chicken and dressing tastes just like grandma used to make! Savory and flavorful – it’s a great family dinner anytime! But it’s also a great option for holidays if you’re having a smaller gathering and don’t want to fix a whole turkey.
People use the term game-changer a lot. But I really do think it applies to this dish, especially if you’re fixing this one for a holiday meal. Those are the types of meals where you have to really plan out your oven usage to get all those casseroles, desserts or dinner rolls baked so that you have everything ready at the same time. This recipe takes one of those holiday must-haves and gives you a way to prepare it ahead of time without taking up any of your oven space at all right before the meal!
Honestly the most difficult part of this recipe is fixing your cornbread ahead of time. any cornbread recipe will do. You can even use a box mix for cornbread if you like. However, I do tend to think this dish is best as a savory one, so you’ll want to check any mix you use to make sure you’re not going to get a sweet cornbread! You’ll prepare the cornbread a day or two ahead of time and let it dry out. Once you’ve done that, everything else is just a matter of throwing the ingredients together and dumping them in the crock pot!
What if I just want the dressing?
If you simply want this to be a side dish of dressing, rather than a main dish of chicken & dressing, it’s so simple to do that! Just eliminate the chicken and put everything else together, still baking your cornbread ahead of time, and you’ll have a wonderfully delicious crock pot full of dressing that tastes so much like grandma used to make!
Can I add more veggies like celery?
Yes! If you are a celery fan and love it chopped up in your homemade dressing, just simply add it to your liking. I would probably dice it in smaller chunks because that’s what I would prefer, but if you like big fat celery chunks in your dressing – go for it!
What if I want boiled eggs in mine?
That’s a simple add as well. If you tend to like chunks of boiled eggs in your dressing, then boil 2-3 eggs and put them in it!
Everyone does seem to have a little different of what they like in their dressing, so you can take the basics of this recipe and tailor it to what you and yours prefer!
Crock Pot Chicken and Dressing
Equipment
- 1 Crock Pot
Ingredients
- 6 cups crumbled, day-old cornbread **Cornbread recipe here!
- 12 oz. Pepperidge Farm Herb Stuffing
- 1 medium diced onion
- 1 cup diced celery **optional
- 4 cups rotisserie chicken
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 2 cans cream of chicken soup
- 4 large eggs, beaten
- 1- 1 1/2 tbsp ground sage
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1/4 cup butter, cut into pats
Instructions
- In large bowl, combine all ingredients except rotisserie chicken
- Mix well until all combined
- Layer 1/3 dressing mixture into greased or lined crock pot
- Place about 1/2 the chicken on top
- Repeat with 1/3 dressing and other half of chicken
- Layer remaining 1/3 dressing on top and place butter pats on top
- Place lid on crock pot and set for 4 hours on low or 2 hours on high
- Check at about the halfway mark (either 1 hour or 2 hours) and stir dressing to prevent sticking/baking onto crock pot.
- Enjoy!
IF it was the crock pot chicken dressing I would be thrilled recipe & I would leave 5 stars. But all that COMES up is fried okra
We have this fixed now. Let us know how it turns out.
Here in Canada, we call it stuffing or dressing (or both during the same day). We stuff the bird (maybe not all of us), and what is leftover from stuffing the bird, is baked.
You have Fried Okra recipe on your Crockpot Chicken and Dressing video. I would like the recipe for the Crockpot chicken and Dressing.
We are still updating our website and should have it up soon! Thank you for checking!
This is updated now. You should be able to see the correct recipe. Thanks for your patience. If you decide to make it, let me know how it turns out.
I would like your cornbread recipe please.
We recorded it just yesterday and plan to release the video in conjunction with our holiday meal series at the beginning of November! Keep a watch out because it’s so good!
You use Peppridge Farm Herb Stuffing AND crumbled cornbread?????
Sounds like too much dressing. Are you sure you don’t mean to use one or the other?
The combination of the two makes a delicious recipe! It is a large dish, but works wonderfully for the large crowds that can gather over a holiday meal!
We call it both stuffing and dressing. Can this be prepared ahead of time w/o chicken for thanksgiving and then cook in crockpot day of Thanksgiving? If so, how many days ahead?
I think you could do that! I probably would only do it 1-2 days ahead!