Crock Pot Chicken Chowder

Such wonderful comfort food! As others have noted this is very versatile and can be adapted to your taste or what's on hand. I just chopped the veggies (including two red potatoes) and put them in the crockpot, topping with salt, pepper and poultry seasoning. I placed two raw boneless chicken breasts on top, then mixed the soups (cream of potato and chicken, plus broth) and poured over all. Cooked for 6 hours then removed and shredded the chicken and returned to pot. It was perfect on a cool, rainy fall day in the cabin served with hot cornbread. Yum. Thanks so much!!!

Very, very delicous! The entire familiy loved it. I ususally don't take liberties with a recipe the first time I make it but after reading your instructions and the rave reviews of others I figured that this is a versatile soup and could use whatever ingredients I had on hand. For example, I used leftover cooked turkey and sauted the onions, celelry and carrots to further the cooking process (as you suggested). I added cream of chicken and cream of mushroom soups (that's what was in the cupboard), put in about 1 cup of leftover mashed potatoes, and threw in a handful of frozen peas. Then I cooked it in the crockpot on low for 4 hours. Wonderful!! This will be a recipe that is made often at our house! Thanks Roxygirl in Colorado!!

This is an absolutely fabulous recipe that I will make really often; also very versatile as I made some changes. I used Tyson Grilled Chicken Breast Strips, left out the onion, celery and carrots and instead used onion powder and 2 cups of frozen peas and carrots. I thought I had 2 cans of cream of potato soup but only had one so I used one can of Cheddar Cheese and one can of Cream of Potato. I had an extra potato that was going to go bad so I diced it up without peeling it and threw that in. I forgot dill, so didn't use that either... Because I wasn't using onion and was using pre-cooked chicken, I didn't sauté anything; I just threw all the ingredients (except the half and half) into the crockpot and cooked it on low for 8 hours. As one of the other ratings says, this soup really does taste like the inside of a pot pie!

Let me start off by saying the changes I made: I used a half of a frozen turkey breast I had in the freezer leftover from when my mom roasted a turkey breast awhile back instead of the chicken. I used frozen mixed vegetables in place of all of the vegetables listed and I used skim milk instead of the half and half and I added less than a half of a block of cream cheese. I also cooked this stove top as opposed to crockpot and it took roughly 45 minutes...I didn't really count the time. I served this with cornbread and it was a huge hit. It tasted just like the middle of a pot pie..it was thick and creamy and delicious and very filling. I will definitely be making this again and again this winter. I dont know if this recipe actually serves 8 as it served me and my mom two hearty bowls each and a small bowl for my grandma but I guess it could? I don't see it happening at my house though! :)

This was a nice bowl of comfort. I used milk instead of half and half, and I think next time I'll use the half and half, as this was more soup-y than chowder-y. Even my soup dislikers liked this. Made for PAC Fall 2007.