Slow Cooker Italian Chicken and Potatoes with Arrabbiata Sauce

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!

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 🙂

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 🙂

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

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!

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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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

8 hours

Total time

8 hours 10 mins

Author: Becky's Best Bites

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

Place a slow cooker liner in the bowl of the slow cooker, or spray with non-stick cooking spray.
Add all ingredients, in the order listed, to the slow cooker, except the potatoes.
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.
Cover and cook on high for about 4 hours or on low for 8 hours.
Enjoy 🙂