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Slow Cooker Italian Chicken and Potatoes with Arrabbiata Sauce

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Slow Cooker Italian Chicken and Potatoes with Arrabbiata Sauce is an easy, healthy and tasty dinner that can be made with ingredients that usually on-hand. | Becky's Best Bites

Slow Cooker Italian Chicken and Potatoes with Arrabbiata Sauce is an easy, healthy and tasty dinner that can be made with ingredients that are usually on-hand. Take 10 minutes before work in the morning to throw the ingredients in your slow cooker and come home to a wonderful Italian meal that the whole family can enjoy!

Will this winter ever end???? I know I really shouldn’t be complaining since I do live in the south and we aren’t having to deal with all the snow and ice that a lot of folks are, but still it has been one cold, dreary and rainy winter for us here in the south!! I NEED some sunshine and warmth folks, how about you?

Last Saturday it was one of those cold, dreary and rainy days that we have been experiencing a lot of this winter and I just couldn’t bring myself to leave the house!!  I wasn’t changing out of my comfy yoga pants, favorite sweatshirt and fuzzy socks…I put my foot down!!! We also live on a dirt road so when it rains those become a mess too!! You slip and slide all over the road and splatter red Georgia clay up the side of your car. Let me tell that is just a blast to deal with and not to mention that I have a small car that sits pretty low to the ground, so I sometimes get bogged down in the deep ruts that you are supposed to drive in to keep from sliding into the ditch!! Let me tell you how much fun I have been having this winter with that!! But I did have fun coming up with a dinner made without a trip to the store!

Slow Cooker Italian Chicken and Potatoes with Arrabbiata Sauce was born!

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So anyways…back to last Saturday, as I mentioned I wasn’t leaving the house but I still had to figure something out for dinner. I looked through the refrigerator, freezer and pantry and voila! All of my ingredients are pictured below with the exception of the chicken broth. I forgot it in the picture…sorry 🙂

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I immediately thought Italian and making a spicy sauce out of the fire-roasted diced tomatoes, crushed red pepper (since we are huge spicy fans! But if your family isn’t, just leave it out) and the fresh spicy oregano that I have in my container garden on the deck. Somehow it has survived this year even with the cold 🙂

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Dump all your ingredients, except the potatoes, in the slow cooker 🙂

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Add a piece of aluminum foil down over the sauce and then add the quartered tomatoes and a splash of chicken stock.  I learned this trick a few years ago. I can’t remember where but it keeps your potatoes from breaking down in the slow cooker, falling apart and just becoming mush! I like my potatoes to be a little firmer and not break down in the sauce.

After either 4 hours on high or 8 hours on low, dinner is ready!

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Here is your recipe for Slow Cooker Italian Chicken and Potatoes with Arrabbiata Sauce:

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Slow Cooker Italian Chicken and Potatoes with Arrabbiata Sauce
 
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Serves: 6
Ingredients
  • 1 large, sweet onion, chopped
  • 3-4 fresh garlic cloves, minced or pressed
  • 8 oz. (1/2 of a small bag) of baby carrots
  • 1-1½ lbs. boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  • 2 cans (14.5 oz. each) of fire-roasted, diced tomatoes
  • 2 tbsp. your favorite seasoning blend (I used Montreal Steak Seasoning), divided
  • 1 tbsp. fresh spicy oregano, chopped
  • 2 tsp. dried marjoram or italian seasoning
  • 2 tsp. crushed red pepper flake (More or less depending on how spicy you like it. I used about 1 tbsp.)
  • ⅓ cup reduced-sodium chicken broth, divided
  • 1-1½ lbs. baby red potatoes, quartered
Instructions
  1. Place a slow cooker liner in the bowl of the slow cooker, or spray with non-stick cooking spray.
  2. Add all ingredients, in the order listed, to the slow cooker, except the potatoes.
  3. Place a piece of aluminum foil over the sauce and chicken, pressing down slightly to make a bowl shape. Add the potatoes and a splash of chicken stock. Season the potatoes with 1 tbsp. of seasoning blend.
  4. Cover and cook on high for about 4 hours or on low for 8 hours.
  5. Enjoy 🙂

Slow Cooker Italian Chicken and Potatoes with Arrabbiata Sauce is an easy, healthy and tasty dinner that can be made with ingredients that usually on-hand. Take 10 minutes before work in the morning to throw the ingredients in your slow cooker and come home to a wonderful Italian meal that the whole family can enjoy!| Becky's Best Bites

Now it’s your turn…what recipe creations have you come up with using only ingredients you had on hand? No trip to the store required!

 

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  5. Joanne T Ferguson says

    G’day This looks delish Becky and I do hope you will share it and some of your other wonderful recipes at my Say Gday Party that re-started today!
    Cheers! Joanne

  7. Caden says

    Girl, I’m making this taaaaaanight! I was just wondering what I had and I literally have exactly that.

    • Becky says

      Yay Caden!!! Isn’t it awesome not to have to go to the store and still have an amazing meal!!

  8. Shelley @ Two Healthy Kitchens says

    Great recipe!!! Such wonderful flavors, and I just love the technique of wrapping the potatoes separately in foil so they don’t break down so much! This is seriously just perfect for the “winter that will NEVER end” – lol! 😀

  10. KC the Kitchen Chopper says

    This dish looks sensational. And thanks so much for the tip to keep the chicken and potatoes separate. This will come in handy for lots of recipes. Yumming!

  11. Libby with Lemony Thyme says

    Eat Out of the Fridge/Pantry Weeks occur on a regular basis around here. Love using up open ingredients. Your Italian chicken looks like a winner!!

  16. Denise Wright says

    I’ve had a whole winter of days like that! It’s been so cold here that all I want to do is stay home. Anyway, this looks like delicious and easy dish. I find I’m always making the same things in my slow cooker. Thanks for a new one to try!