Slow cooker recipes

26 delicious slow cooker chicken meals to make this week

These are some of our favourite slow cooker chicken recipes.
Slow cooker Hainanese chicken rice

A classic with a twist ... Hainanese-style chicken rice in the slow cooker.

The slow cooker makes brilliant, hearty meals without any help! Whether you’re looking for a tasty way to cook with chicken breasts, or love slow-cooked chicken thighs or drumsticks, these slow cooker recipes are simple, and flavourful.

Here are some of our favourite, no-fuss, slow cooker chicken recipes that make for mouth-watering meals.

If you can’t get enough slow cooking then we also have a great collection of delicious beef recipes for your slow cooker.

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Pulled chicken fajitas

Pulled chicken fajitas with cheesy toppings

This fun, slow cooker recipe makes for a tasty and hearty dinner.

02

Slow-cooker spicy upside down pineapple chicken

Slow-cooker spicy upside down pineapple chicken

This spicy upside down pineapple chicken makes for a delicious meal, with only 15 minutes preparation to get it into the slow-cooker.

03

Slow-cooker butter chicken

Slow-cooker butter chicken

This easy butter chicken dish made in your slow cooker is sure to become a family favourite in no time.

Slow cooker Hainanese chicken rice

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Hainanese-style chicken

Slow cooker Hainanese-style chicken

Traditionally, this Hainanese recipe is a dish of whole chicken poached in a light garlic and ginger broth, served with rice also cooked in the broth. To make things easier, our Hainanese chicken rice recipe uses chicken Marylands, instead of a whole bird. Chicken thighs can be used too. Plus microwave coconut rice.

Chicken with lemon and green olives

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Chicken, green olive and preserved lemon tagine

Chicken, green olive and preserved lemon tagine

This Morrocan-spiced tagine is cooked in your slow cooker for a tangy, flavour-packed and meltingly tender meal with minimal effort required.

slow cooker chicken recipe

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Slow-Cooker Thai Basil And Chilli Chicken With Cashews

Slow-cooker Thai basil and chilli chicken with cashews

All you have to do is set and forget. You’ll be welcomed back with a succulent chook that’s bursting with flavour and ready to eat. Worth the wait.

green chicken curry

07

Green chicken curry

A rich and fragrant green chicken curry that is so simply made in a slowcooker.

08

Five-ingredient green olive and lemon chicken

Five-ingredient green olive and lemon chicken

Green olive and lemon makes for a tender and tasty slow-cooked chicken dish. You can use natural string to tie the legs in place of small steel skewers.

09

Slow-cooker apricot chicken

Slow-cooker apricot chicken

This classic chicken dish is cooked low and slow in the slow cooker to ensure full flavours and melt-off-the-bone meat.

10

Slow-cooker honey mustard chicken

Making this delicious honey mustard chicken dish is the perfect way to intensify its flavour.

Chicken pho

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Chicken pho (Pho Ga)

Chicken pho (Pho Ga)

Made with an aromatic broth enriched with chicken, root vegetables and spices and cooked in your slow cooker to develop the flavours.

12

Slow-cooker chicken tikka masala

Slow-cooker chicken tikka masala

This slow cooker chicken recipe is the perfect way to develop the flavour of delicious spices, and creates the most tender chicken.

chicken hot & sour soup

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Slow-cooker chicken hot and sour soup

We love slow cookers – simply pop all your ingredients into the cooker and come back to a warming, flavour-packed dish. This zesty hot and sour chicken soup tastes absolutely amazing after several hours of slow-cooking.

chicken and chorizo paella recipe

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Chicken and chorizo paella in a slow cooker

This slow cooker paella recipe takes this delicious Valencian dish and gives it the benefit of modern convenience.

slow cooker chicken tikka recipe

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Slow cooker chicken tikka masala

Using a slow cooker in this chicken tikka masala recipe is the perfect way to develop the flavour of delicious spices, and creates the most tender chicken. Just wait for the aroma of this tasty feast!

16

Paprika chicken

Tender pieces of chicken in a fragrant creamy sauce, this slow- cooker paprika chicken served with creamy mash is the embodiment of comfort food.

17

Slow cooker chicken and corn chowder

Nothing beats a hearty bowl (or mug) of thick, savoury chowder. This chicken and corn chowder recipe is the ultimate set-and-forget dinner.

18

Chicken and mushroom soup

A thick and soothing bowl of this chicken and mushroom soup goes down a treat served with crusty cheese bread.

19

Slow cooker coq au vin

Making coq au vin in a slow cooker takes all the fussiness out of cooking this traditional French stew.

20

Slow-cooker Italian-style chicken with tomatoes and pepperoni

This bright and spicy Italian-style chicken dish is fantastic served with steamed vegetables and crusty bread.

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Slow-cooker butter chicken

This easy butter chicken dish is sure to become a family favourite in no time. Serve with steamed white rice or naan bread for a filling dinner.

22

Shredded Mexican chicken and beans

This delicious Mexican-style shredded chicken and beans is a flavour-packed dinner that couldn’t be easier!

23

Cock-a-leekie soup

Perfect for a chilly winter’s night- the entire family will love this classic and nourishing chicken and leek soup.

24

Slow-cooker Thai basil and chilli chicken with cashews

If you love the punchy the punchy flavours of Thai cooking this Thai basil and chilli chicken dish with cashews will be right up your ally!

25

Slow cooker chicken, porcini & barley soup

Delicious earthy flavours come to the fore with this slow cooked chicken, porcini and barley soup.

26

Slow-cooker chicken with soy & sesame

This chicken with soy & sesame recipe involves cooking a whole chicken your slow cooker and cutting it up after for the most moist and tender chicken imaginable!

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