Easy Cheesy Chicken
Rinse chicken and pat dry. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Place in slow cooker. In a medium bowl, mix cream of chicken, mushroom, and cheddar cheese soups. Cook on low for 6-8 hours. Stir in sour cream before serving.
Rinse chicken and pat dry. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Place in slow cooker. In a medium bowl, mix cream of chicken, mushroom, and cheddar cheese soups. Cook on low for 6-8 hours. Stir in sour cream before serving.
- Carbohydrate 2.03588 g
- Cholesterol 410.64 mg
- Fat 8.80048 g
- Fiber 0.277199989318848 g
- Protein 163.9476 g
- Saturated Fat 2.34018 g
- Serving Size 1 1 recipe (711g)
- Sodium 534.608572916667 mg
- Sugar 1.75868001068115 g
- Trans Fat 2.34284 g
- Calories 788 calories
Step-by-step
- Rinse chicken, and pat dry. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Place in slow cooker.
- In a medium bowl, mix together cream of chicken soup, cream of mushroom soup and cream of Cheddar cheese soup.
- Cook on Low for 6 to 8 hours. Stir in sour cream just before serving.
Condensed soups drive the entire sauce base for this dish, providing bulk and seasoning without requiring separate roux preparation or stock reduction. Utilizing canned bases keeps unit costs low per serving when cooking for a crowd. Adjusting volume requires careful attention to liquid ratios so the sauce maintains proper cling on the meat.
- Scale the meat and soup cans proportionally by maintaining a ratio of one 10.75-ounce soup can per pound of boneless poultry.
- Reduce the slow cooker cooking window to 4 hours if cutting the batch size in half, preventing the protein fibers from drying out.
- Stir the sour cream in off the heat or during the final two minutes to prevent high heat from breaking the emulsion and causing curdling.
- Substitute Greek yogurt at a 1:1 ratio if sour cream is unavailable, though the finished sauce will yield a slightly tangier flavor profile.
Standard oval slow cookers accommodate up to six breast halves in a single layer without overlapping excessively. Round units require careful stacking, which extends the minimum processing time by roughly 45 minutes.
