Crockpot Chicken and Noodles is the perfect dinner to come home to. Made with simple ingredients and only 10 minutes hands on time, this will be a winner in your house.
Today I’m sharing a very easy recipe with you that my kids totally love. In fact, they love it so much they are even excited about leftovers for lunch the next day which is the true test of a recipe in my house.
Crockpot Chicken and Noodles requires only about 10 minutes of hands on time, and is total comfort food. With chicken, noodles, and some simple veggies you have a whole meal in your slow cooker when you get home.
Quick, easy and delicious crockpot meal. Thank you for sharing. This will be my go to recipe on a cold evening.
How to Make Crockpot Chicken and Noodles
This is a brief overview of how this delicious recipe comes together. For the full recipe with all of the measurements, see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
- Combine ingredients in the slow cooker. To your slow cooker add chicken, cut up carrots, garlic, condensed chicken soup, chicken broth, onion powder, salt and pepper. Cook on low for 3 to 4 hours.
- Add the noodles. Stir in egg noodles and cook for 25 minutes.
- Stir in the peas. Finally, stir in some frozen peas. Serve it up and enjoy.
Chicken Shredding Hack
Recently a friend of mine told me how much she loves my Chicken Enchilada Soup that it is even worth having to shred chicken at the end. And then I blew her mind with my secret for shredding chicken.
At the end of this slow cooker chicken and noodles recipe, you need to shred the chicken. Remove it from the slow cooker, and throw it in a bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer. Then using a hand mixer or the paddle attachment of your stand mixer, shred the chicken.
If you are thinking that this isn’t worth washing those extra dishes, I will respectfully disagree. This crockpot dinner is just one dish to clean at the end of the night, so adding one more bowl so that I don’t have to shred chicken by hand is absolutely worth it.
Using Homemade Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup
For those who want to make a dinner full from scratch, I suggest using my Homemade Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup in this recipe. You will need to double the recipe for this, but it still will only take about 25 minutes to make.
Benefits of making this from scratch include:
- Making it lower in sodium. You can completely control the sodium of this when you make it yourself.
- Making it dairy free. If you have a dairy allergy in your house, you can replace the butter in this recipe with vegan butter, and the milk with soy milk.
Homemade Cream of Chicken Soup
Adding Frozen Peas
The peas in this recipe don’t really get much cooking time. In fact it is only about a minute from when they are added to the slow cooker to when you serve the recipe. But this is perfect. The heat from the recipe will warm them and they will still be bright green and the perfect texture. Nobody wants overcooked peas.
Make it Simpler
This is a pretty easy recipe as written, but if you want to make it even easier, you can skip chopping the carrots and onions. Instead, at the end of the recipe when you would put in the frozen peas, leave them out, and put in two cups of frozen mixed vegetables. They will heat through quickly for an even easier spin on this great dinner recipe.
Cooking Noodles in the Slow Cooker
It is easy to cook noodles in the slow cooker and it takes less than 30 minutes when your crockpot is on high. The liquid of the recipe is absorbed by the noodles as they cook in the hot recipe.
While noodles cooked in the slow cooker don’t have quite the same texture as boiled noodles, it works very well in this delicious recipe. For this recipe, 25 minutes was the perfect amount of time for the noodles.
Please note that if your family does not care for egg noodles, you can replace them with a different type of pasta. Most small noodles (like penne, shells, rigatoni) will work in place of the egg noodles if you stick to using 8 ounces.
What to Serve with Crockpot Chicken and Noodles
While I think this recipe is great on it’s own, you could round it out with one of the following:
If you make this Crockpot Chicken and Noodles recipe, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. I love hearing from you!
Crockpot Chicken and Noodles
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts (630.4 grams)
- 21 ounces condensed cream of chicken soup store-bought or our homemade recipe (596 grams)
- 3 cups low sodium chicken broth (680.3 grams or 709.8 ml)
- 2 medium carrots peeled and diced
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 2 teaspoons onion powder
- 1 – 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 8 ounces dry egg noodles (226.8 grams)
- 1 cup frozen green peas (170 grams)
- fresh parsley for topping
Instructions
- Add the chicken (whole, not diced), soup, chicken broth, carrots, onion, garlic, salt, and pepper to the crockpot. Cook on low for 3 to 4 hours or on high for 2 to 3 hours.1 1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts, 21 ounces condensed cream of chicken soup, 3 cups low sodium chicken broth, 2 medium carrots, 2 garlic cloves, 2 teaspoons onion powder, 1 – 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt, 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- At the end of the cook time, take out the chicken and shred it. Add it back to the crockpot with the noodles. Stir to combine. Cook on high for 25 minutes.8 ounces dry egg noodles
- Stir in the frozen peas. They will take just a minute or two in the hot slow cooker to thaw. Taste, and add more salt or pepper as needed. Top with fresh parsley, serve, and enjoy.1 cup frozen green peas
Cary says
We were cooking this to have ready when we got home, so I pre-cooked the noodles and put them in when we got home to warm them up (at the same time I added the peas). Turned out more like chicken noodle soup since the noodles were already cooked. I’m thinking I can reduce the broth next time – what do you think? And If so, how much would you reduce the broth?
The flavor was great!
Hi Cary! The balance of liquid to noodles in a slow cooker is always tricky. So I’d want to test it before giving you advice on how to make this with already cooked noodles. I’d probably start by cutting the amount of chicken stock in half.
Kathryn Harlton says
What size crock pot do you use? 4 qt or 6 qt?
Thanks!
6 quart!
Sheila Corriher c says
I made this recipe last night and it was absolutely delicious!!!! I loved the noodles and the chicken breast, I loved all of the ingredients 🥰 My boy friend liked it as well!!
I’m so glad you liked it!
Kathleen G says
Delicious and easy! I added fresh mushrooms and mixed diced frozen veggies to add some more color ! Family loved it:)
I’m so glad that you like it!
Cheryl Belangee says
I haven’t tried your recipe, but I have tried similar ones. The problem is the noodles, they always come out tasting pasty or doughy. I have used both Reames and egg noodles. Any advice?
Probably just slightly less time. It is really hard to develop recipes with noodles for the crockpot because slow cookers vary so greatly. If the recipe you are trying results in gummy noodles, it might mean that your slow cooker runs a little hotter and therefore needs just a little less time for recipes with noodles.
Annie says
This was so easy and so tasty! We all loved it!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Pat says
Can I use frozen chicken breasts?
Yes, but it will make the cook time longer in step one.
Boop says
Quick, easy and delicious crockpot meal. Thank you for sharing. This will be my go to
Recipe on a cold evening.
I’m so glad that you liked it!
Maureen says
For the Crockpot Chicken & Noodles ~ can I use Rhoades Frozen Homemade Noodles instead of bagged noodles?? Can’t wait to make this!!
I haven’t tested with those noodles, but because cooking pasta in the slow cooker is always a bit tricky, I would definitely want to test that. I am almost certain the amount of liquid will need to be reduced.