This Popular One Pot Crock Pot Dinner Has an Ingredient that Might Surprise You
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This Slow Cooker Pepper Jack Chicken is one of our family’s favorite slow cooker dinner recipes and over the years readers have fallen in love with it too! It is a super simple one-pot crock pot meal that is fix it and forget it.
Whole Frozen Green Beans?
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I just love this recipe. I hadn’t made it in a while and when I was thinking about what we could share on the channel and blog next it hit me! Crock Pot Pepper Jack Chicken!
I have made this dish for years in one form or another. It does have somewhat of an unusual ingredient for a dish like this, BUT trust me it is sooo good!
We always use whole frozen beans. Fresh beans would likely turn out more crisp and canned would give it an entirely different texture.
But if green beans aren’t your thing, feel free to skip them entirely.
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“This was soooo good!”
-Erin
“I served this with riceโฆall we can say is YUMMMโฆeven with the green beans!! What makes this recipe even better is that it’s just as good reheated for leftovers!! :)”
-Angela
“Love this recipe. Itโs so easy and delicious. I served it over rice and my family loved it!”
-Christine
Slow Cooker Pepper Jack Chicken
Ingredients
- 3.5 lbs boneless, skinless chicken thighs or breasts
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoon cumin
- salt and pepper to taste
- 10 oz frozen whole green beans
- 1 bell pepper seeded and sliced
- 8 oz fresh mushrooms sliced
- 1/4 Cup Butter
- 10 Slices Pepper Jack Cheese
Instructions
- Place chicken in the bottom of a 6 quart slow cooker and season with garlic powder, onion powder, cumin and salt and pepper.
- Layer frozen green beans, then mushrooms and peppers.
- Season again with salt and pepper, top with butter and cook on low for 4-6 hours until chicken is shreddable when stirred.
- Stir chicken until shredded and then top with cheese on cook on high until the cheese melts.
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Notes
- We used our 6 quart Ninja to cook up this dish, but you can use any 6 quart slow cooker.ย
- We now have an Instant Pot version of this recipe too: Instant Pot Pepper Jack Chicken
- The whole frozen green beans may seem like an odd addition, but trust me it is so yummy. We always use whole frozen beans. Fresh beans would likely turn out more crisp and canned would give it an entirely different texture.
- You can use a different cheese than pepper jack, but then the dish won’t be pepper jack chicken ;).
- You can use chicken breasts instead of boneless skinless thighs, but the cooking time will likely be less than the thighs. Watch closely so you don’t dry out the chicken breasts.
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Other Ways to Make Pepper Jack Chicken
We have several other ways to make this dish if you are looking for other methods.
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