Discover the ultimate comfort food with this delicious recipe for Crock-Pot Chicken Pot Pie. Made from scratch and cooked in your slow cooker, it’s the perfect homestyle classic.
Crock-Pot Chicken Pot Pie: A Comforting, Flavorful Homemade Dish
Looking for the perfect comfort food to warm you up on a chilly day? Look no further than Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie. This classic dish is not only delicious and satisfying, but it’s also easy to make and bursting with flavor. And the best part? This recipe is made from scratch, so you can skip the canned cream of chicken soup or cream of mushroom soup.
To start, gather all your ingredients, including boneless skinless chicken breasts, peas, carrots, and any other veggies you love in your pot pie. Chop the chicken into bite-sized pieces and place them in your Crock-Pot. Add in the veggies, such as peas and carrots, for added color and nutrients.
Next, mix up a simple and flavorful homemade sauce using ingredients like chicken stock (or chicken broth), milk, flour, butter, and seasonings. Pour this sauce over the chicken and veggies in the Crock-Pot, making sure everything is well coated.
Turn on your slow cooker and let it cook on low for 6 hours, allowing the flavors to meld together and the chicken to become tender and juicy. The aroma that fills your kitchen will have your mouth watering in no time.
When the pot pie filling is ready, it’s time to add the final touch – a flaky, buttery pie crust. You can use store-bought crust or make your own from scratch if you’re feeling ambitious. Place the crust on top of the filling in the Crock-Pot and let it cook for another hour or so, until the crust is golden brown and crispy.
Once your Crockpot Chicken Pot Pie is ready, serve it up hot and enjoy the comforting, satisfying flavors of this classic dish. The best part? You can customize it to your liking by adding your favorite veggies or seasonings. And with no cream of chicken soup in sight, you can feel good about serving this homemade meal to your family.
So next time you’re craving a comforting and flavorful meal, give this creamy chicken pot pie recipe a try. You won’t be disappointed!
Frequently Asked Questions
Absolutely! Crock-Pots are great for making savory and comforting dishes like chicken pot pie.
Yes, frozen vegetables can be used in your chicken pot pie. This recipe calls for both frozen peas and carrots but you can also use a bag of frozen mixed vegetables which also contains carrots, corn and green beans.
Yes, store-bought pie crust can be used for your chicken pot pie. Just follow the instructions on the package for baking.
Yes, you can freeze leftover chicken pot pie for up to 3 months. Just be sure to thaw it in the refrigerator before reheating.
Yes, you can use chicken thighs instead of chicken breasts. Just keep in mind that chicken thighs are a little higher in calories and fat so adjust the nutrient information accordingly if you are watching your diet.
Yes, you can make this recipe ahead of time and reheat it later. Just store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator and reheat it in the oven or microwave when you’re ready to eat.
Yes, you can add other ingredients to this recipe, like mushrooms, celery or bacon. Feel free to customize it to your liking!
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Crock-Pot Chicken Pot Pie Recipe
Equipment
- 5 Quart Crock-Pot to 6 Quart Crock-Pot
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup Unsalted Butter
- ⅓ cup All-Purpose Flour
- 1 medium Yellow Onion (diced)
- 2 cloves Garlic (minced)
- 1 ¾ cups Low Sodium Chicken Stock (canned or homemade)
- ⅔ cup Milk
- 1 pound Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast (cut into bite sized pieces)
- 1 cup Peas (fresh or frozen)
- 1 cup Chopped Carrots
- 2 teaspoons Poultry Seasoning
- ½ teaspoon Kosher Salt
- ½ teaspoon Freshly Ground Black Pepper
- 1 Refrigerated Ready To Use Pie Crust
Instructions
- Heat a medium skillet over medium–high heat on the stove top until hot. Add the butter, onion and garlic to the pan.
- Saute onion and garlic in butter for about 3 minutes until the onion becomes translucent.
- Add flour to the pan and cook and stir until the butter has mostly absorbed into the flour. Add mixture to a 5 to 6 quart slow cooker.
- Add milk and chicken stock to slow cooker and stir well to combine.
- Add chicken pieces, peas, carrots, poultry seasoning, salt and pepper to slow cooker and stir.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 6 hours.
- Unroll refrigerated pie crust and place it on top of the chicken mixture in slow cooker in a single layer. If you are using an oval shaped slow cooker you may want to slightly stretch the pie crust dough out to fit the slow cooker better.
- Place a clean kitchen towel or layer of paper towels between the lid of the slow cooker and crock.
- Continue to cook for 1 to 1 1/2 hours on LOW until the pie crust is cooked through.
I tried to make the Chicken pot pie in the crock pot. The ingedients were Super and tasted great, but pie crust was nothing but mass of glue like gunt.. please tell me how you got your crust brown?
I am sorry that it didnt turn out. When I first made this, I really didnt think the crust would amount to much. I put one layer of crust (premade in the roll pillsbury pie crust) on top of the mixture in the crock-pot. Put the lid on and let it cook. I checked it periodically to see where it was at and then after an hour, the top was crusty.
I would like to know also. how you get your crust brown. also you said priory to serving, don’t understand. do you bake it first?
Sorry about the recipe being confusing. I did go back and correct that. I cooked the pie mixture for 6 hours. I then unrolled the pre-made pie crust and put one layer on top of the mixture in the crock-pot. Put the lid back on and continued to cook on low. I didnt think it would turn out the way I wanted but wanted to try it out. After an hour, The top of my crust was crusty and brown. That is when I spooned it out.
Thanks, that makes sense. Did not see the corretion for cooking time so i will Definately try it again !!!
Ok can you use your own pastry and can it be on botton and top also would bthan pie crust?iscuit dough work for this thanks
Sorry would biscuit dough work as good sorry hate auto correct so crust on top and bottom work ok i like to make my own crust thanks
We have not tried this recipe with dough on the top and bottom, nor have we used biscuit dough. If you try it let us know how it turns out!
My husband made this recipe as listed (cooking the chicken mixture first and ready made pie crust on top the last hour.) First off, the chicken mixture was incredibly bland and had not thickened in the least after 6 hours. It needed 2 hits of corn starch, and was still too watery. The pie crust was a total bomb. After one hour it was rubbery, so we made slits for some steam to escape and cook the top. After more than an hour and 20 minutes, it was still pasty and only partially cooked. Pretty disgusting.
I just made this – with a few changes – and loved it! I added green beans and previously-cooked and shredded frozen chicken. I did mix in a little cornstarch just because of comments. When the mixture was cooked, I transfered it to a casserole dish and covered with homemade pie crust and baked it. So good!
I made this tonight! It was delicious! I used crescent rolls on top just cause I didn’t have a pie crust. I put them on top for half an hour in the crockpot, then browned them in the oven for 9 minutes. I would definitely make this again! Thanks for the great recipe!
So glad you enjoyed this recipe Chesnye! The addition of crescent rolls sounds fabulous!
Can this be made,starting with uncooked chicken or will that make it have too much liquid?
hmmmm…I am sure it can be done with raw chicken. I would go raw not frozen. It might end up being a little too liquidy at the end, if so maybe just a little flour to thicken it…just a little otherwise it will taste too much like “flour”.
Thanks,
I will give it a try. 🙂
Love this recipe. I made a few changes. I cook it on high for 3 hours then add instant potato buds to thicken it up a bit. Last, I pour the mixture into a glass baking dish and top with crescent rolls bake at 375 for 30 min or until top is golden brown. It’s to die for.
Potato Buds that would make it tasty!! thanks for the update on how you did it.
I use potato buds as a gluten free alternative to whatever I cook as a thickener. Normally, I process my gf bread crusts or ends to make crumbs which would make a great topping for this casserole.
I am guessing that how this recipe turns out depends on your crock pot. How old/new it is, how big and so on. I have several – you just have to experiment.
I just skip the crust to avoid disaster, but I make this meal monthly! It’s soooo good. I dunno how other ppl day is coming out watery and bland they are obviously skipping a step, maybe the butter onion flour mix at the beginning. I dunno, but it’s by far my fav cockpot soup recipe! 🙂
And I use raw chicken at the bottom of the pot every time, comes out great. Just shred at the end
This was really good! Although it seems people have had mixed experiences with the recipe. I followed it exactly, except that I transferred the filling into a baking dish so that I could brown the crust in the oven. It didn’t turn out too watery at all, it was thick and creamy. I will definitely make this again! 🙂
Thanks for the recipe
You’re welcome Christine!
So I am making this recipe now and it didn’t say cooked chicken so I assumed raw, it it very soupy. I am going to try instant potatoes and put in casserole dish for last hour.
Is the nutritional info for the whole dish or single portion? I just want to be sure.
For a single portion.
Tasted great. After reading the comments I did add a couple of tablespoons of cornstarch to thicken the liquid. I used a thick dish towel between the pie crust and the lid of my slow cooker and my crust came out great. I also used a casserol slow cooker .
So glad you enjoyed the recipe Toni.
Two quick questions:
Ok to use a crock pot liner with adding the dough at the end?
I noticed that the pie crust doubles when choosing serving sizes, it would still be one pie crust no matter the serving size, right?