Cream Cheese Chicken
There’s a certain amount of pressure that comes when writing for a food blog. Sometimes I feel like I need to share the “perfect” dish. But the truth is, what’s perfect for one family, probably isn’t for another. Cream Cheese Chicken is a recipe I originally hesitated sharing because it’s not fancy or pretty. It is however, fast, inexpensive, tasty, and comforting. It can be served with mashed potatoes, rice, pasta, or just a simple salad, and can be thrown in the slow cooker and forgotten about.
And sometimes, dinners like that really are–don’t you think–quite perfect.
Cream Cheese Chicken
Author/Source:
Pam @ Onceamonthmom.com
Ingredients:
- 2 pounds boneless, skinless, chicken breast
- 1 can (10.75 ounces) cream of chicken soup
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1 packet dry Italian dressing mix
Directions:
Place chicken, soup, cream cheese, and seasoning mix in slow cooker. Cook on high 4-5 hours or low 8-9 hours, or until chicken is cooked through. Serve over hot cooked rice or mashed potatoes, or noodles, if desired.
Freezing Directions:
Mix soup, cream cheese, and dressing mix. Place raw chicken in freezer bags. Pour sauce over chicken, seal, label, and freeze. To serve: Place bag contents in slow cooker. No need to thaw. Cook on high 4-6 hours or low 8-10 hours, or until chicken is cooked through.
Servings: 6
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This is one of my favorite crock pot recipes and I make it often. It’s so easy though, I never think to do it as a freezer meal.
I don’t think I have Italian seasoning, but what about a Ranch packet? Do you think that’s a good substitute?
I think Ranch would be a good substitute! Or if you have bottled Italian dressing you could use some of that too…maybe 1/2 cup? I’ve done that before and it turned out great. Except I didn’t really measure…just poured some in.
Here’s a quick Italian Dressing mix that I got from a copy cat cookbook, it’s supposed to be just like Good Seasoning’s.
Italian Dressing Mix
½ TB Garlic Salt
½ TB Garlic Powder
1 TB Sugar
2 TB Italian Seasoning
1 ts pepper
½ TB Parsley
¼ ts celery salt
Sounds perfect for my son who is very picky and I love slower cooker meals for soccer practice nights! Could make it lower fat with fat free cheese and soup I guess.
Thanks for sharing – anything with no green or red chunky bits are perfect for us
Although I didn’t write it in the recipe, I do usually use fat free cream cheese and/or lower fat soup.
My kids love this meal too–nothing chunky, red, or green! Although I do usually serve steamed broccoli or something green with it.
This is one of my all time favorite recipes! We LOVE this at our house, the recipe we usually use doesn’t have us add the cream cheese or soup until the end, only cook the chicken w/ butter & the dressing mix first. I’m going to try it this way and see how different it is.
Thanks for the reminder of a GREAT recipe
This is how we make it at our house too! Love cooking the chicken in butter first. I too am going to try it as given here. It is a GREAT meal!
This looks amazing! I am new to the once a month cooking (my first time will be September!), and I was wondering if this could be frozen with individual meal sizes? I live alone and 2 lbs of chicken for a week is a little much expecially cooked the same way.
Yes, you most certainly can. I would just divide it in the increments you want to use. Perhaps freezing in pint or quart bags?
Thanks for posting this recipe – you helped me out for dinner tonight. The family loved it. I didn’t have cream of chicken soup so used the Campbell’s Cream of Onion and homemade Italian salad dressing mix -yum! I cooked noodles to go with it, cut up the chicken into smaller bites and added the noodles – perfect! Thanks again!
Make your own cream of chicken… 3 tbs butter, 1 tbs corn starch – melt and whisk consistantly – add 1/2 cup milk and 1/2 cup chicken broth (salt and pepper to taste) – whisk until mixture becomes thick… I never buy cream of chicken anymore because this takes like 5 minutes to make and it tastes way way way better than store bought plus it is sooooo much cheaper!
Oh Love the idea of using a Ranch packet. My daughter has Ranch with everything. (she even asked to have it on a peanut butter sandwich once).
Yum! Would love to have this featured in our October Blog Hop for a chance to win a cookbook. http://is.gd/59HVTM
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Just put this in the crockpot now…was trying to think of something to make for tonight and someone had this posted on Pinterest, so I thought I would give it a try! Excited and hope it’s amazing!!! It is so easy!
It isn’t my recipe (and Pam is on maternity leave) but from the reviews I hear it is amazing. I have it on my menu to try soon too.
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I wonder how this will taste with dry onion mix.
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Should the chicken be thawed before you put it in the crock pot?
It should. There are some that will say you can put it in the slow cooker frozen but for safety purposes, you should thaw it first. (Don’t want it in the temperature danger zone longer than 2 hours).
Are you supposed to add water to this? I made it but it burnt quite a bit of the chicken. I was cooking it on low too! What did I do wrong?
Candace, No water should be added but my crockpot always has a tendency to cook high even on low, so I add a little water or broth just in case.
I ended up using a ton of herbs de provance (sp) instead of italian seasoning mix and man, it was amazing! This is such a great simple recipe for making your own!
I think I must’ve done something wrong. This did not turn out well. Everything was cooked but the sauce was not tasty and did not look like the picture :( The Italian dressing mix threw it off, I don’t remember what brand i used but I think that did it in.
Hmm, this is the first I have heard of someone not liking it. Perhaps it was an old packet or a packet that was old?
I had just bought it but it is still a possibility. It didn’t look like the picture but I followed the directions exactly. I don’t think it was the recipe that had an issue it must’ve been teh ingredients i was using.
Does anyone else have an issue with it being too salty? It’s almost to the point where I don’t really want to eat it. Next time, if I try this one, I will make my own cream of chicken and add my own seasonings SANS SALT! Bleck!
Adding a can, drained, of diced/crushed/whatever tomatoes and a package of mushrooms to this makes a slightly more well-rounded and still delicious dinner :)
What a great suggestion!
I am so glad I found this recipe again! I knew it was simple, but I didn’t want to mess it up. Last year when I made it for freezer meals, I ran out of crm of chx, so I used some of Tastefuly simples, chipotle fruit sauce, (Forget the exact kind) instead of the cream of chicken soup. Oh my goodness. It was amazing! We had it with mashed potatoes.