Crock Pot French Onion Chicken
Coming home to the smell of this Crock Pot French Onion Chicken is the best feeling. This dish makes your house smell amazing and delivers a seriously comforting meal. It’s a super simple slow cooker recipe with just five ingredients, tastes amazing, and works for any day of the week.
Crockpot meals are the bomb, right? So easy and they taste like you spent hours in the kitchen. This recipe is no exception with tender chicken, rich caramelized onions, and a seriously delicious broth. It’s one of those recipes you can serve for a family dinner or a special occasion.
The best part about this dish is that it’s inspired by French onion soup. You’ve got those deeply caramelized onions, a rich, savory broth, and melty cheese – it’s a flavor explosion. Just like my Instant Pot French Onion Chicken recipe, the meat just soaks all the flavors and sauce up and gets crazy tender. If you love the classic onion soup, you’ll love this dish, too.
We love to serve this over rice, but garlic mashed potatoes and roasted green beans are yummy with this dish. This Brussels Sprouts Salad and some crusty bread would be another option for sides.
Crock Pot French Onion Chicken
This recipe couldn’t be easier with minimal ingredients and steps to make, it’s the perfect hands-off dinner to make when time is short. You add all the ingredients in the crock-pot and let it do its thing. When the meat is done, add cheese and let it melt while you finish the side dishes.
The recipe takes a shortcut to using a canned French onion soup, you’re saving time by not having to caramelize the onions as you would with the pressure cooker recipe. I’d also like to point out that I thought this would be a bit on the salty side using the store-bought soups but it wasn’t at all! The flavors were balanced and delicious.
What Type of Cheese Do You Use?
I used Swiss but Provolone and Gryuere are also delicious cheeses to use. Mozzarella cheese is another good melty cheese to use.
Tips and Variations
- You can substitute boneless, skinless chicken thighs for the breasts. Cooking time may be a little different.
- Instead of serving over white rice, try cauliflower rice or a slice of toasted Texas toast on a plate and top with the chicken and onion gravy.
More Side Dishes for French Onion Chicken
Need more ideas for sides to serve with this meal? Here are some of our favorites that go well with this and any meal.
- Slow Cooker Cheesy Green Bean Casserole
- Garlic Cheese Asparagus
- Twice Baked Potatoes
- Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Broccoli
- Loaded Cauliflower Casserole
There are so many choices to make and I always go with something everyone likes or the ingredients I have on hand to make a recipe.
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Favorite Tools for Making French Onion Chicken
You really only need a few tools to make this simple tasty slow cooker dinner. I’m linking my favorites for you to see.
- Hamilton Beach 6 Qt. Slow Cooker
- Serving spoon
- Knife
- Cutting board
Ingredients
There are no specialty foods for this dish. Just a few pantry staples and they all can be found in your grocery stores.
- boneless and skinless chicken breasts
- medium onion
- ground black pepper
- Campbell’s Condensed French onion soup
- Lipton onion soup mix
- Swiss cheese
This French onion chicken crock pot recipe is all about convenience and using a few store-bought items to create a deeply savory and satisfying dish. It’s a shortcut that tastes like you spent hours caramelizing onions.
How to Make French Onion Chicken
Butterfly the chicken breasts and place in crockpot. Add onions, canned soup, and soup mix.
Cover and cook on low for 4 – 6 hours. Top with cheese and let melt. Serve and enjoy.
Serve it over a bed of fluffy rice or with mashed potatoes to soak up all that savory sauce. Add a side of steamed veggies or a simple salad for a complete meal.
The recipe is simple, delicious, and sure to become a family favorite. Save or print the recipe and give it a try!
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Crock Pot French Onion Chicken
Equipment
- knife
- serving spoon
Ingredients
- 1½ pounds boneless and skinless chicken breasts, cut in half lengthwise. (you want thinner pieces)
- 1 medium onion, sliced
- 1 can (10.6 ounces) Campbell's Condensed French Onion soup
- 1 package Lipton onion soup mix (dry)
- 5 slices Swiss cheese (use more if you like)
Instructions
- Slice you chicken breasts in half lengthwise for thinner slices and place in the bottom of the slow cooker.
- Top chicken pieces with the sliced onions.
- Pour the soup over the meat and onions; then top with the soup mix.
- Cover and cook on low for 4 to 6 hours. Check at the 4 hours mark as some slow cookers can cook faster.
- Once the meat is cooked and tender, top with cheese and let it melt with the cover on. Serve over rice or one of the suggestions in the blog posts.
Notes
Nutritional Disclaimer
“Blogghetti” is not a dietician or nutritionist, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and other nutritional values can vary quite a bit depending on which brands were used.
Enjoy!
