Crock Pot Cheesy Chicken & Ham (So Good!!!)

"This creamy crock pot meal is comfort food at its best! It reminds me of chicken cordon bleu, without the fuss!"
 
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Ready In:
8hrs 10mins
Ingredients:
8
Serves:
6-8
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ingredients

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directions

  • Dice chicken, and place in crock pot.
  • Cut butter into pieces, and distribute evenly over chicken.
  • Sprinkle Italian seasoning and white pepper over top, and place lid on crock pot.
  • Cook on low for 7-8 hours.
  • At end of cooking time, cut up the cream cheese, and drop into crock pot, together with the diced ham and chicken soup.
  • Stir, then replace lid.
  • Cook on high until cheese is melted.
  • Serve hot over rice or pasta.

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Reviews

  1. Pretty good. Used only 1/2 stick salted butter, and about a tablespoon of light olive oil. Will definitely make again, but with the following modifications: Cook chicken only 4 hours. Add 1/2 to 1 cup of milk to cream cheese mixture. Add salt to taste. Add peas at the end. Served over fettucine noodles. Will try rice or egg noodles next time. Overall, a yummy, easy recipe. Thanks for sharing!
     
  2. LOL! This recipe has several major problems but reading all the reviews today more than made up for them! I am reading this on 7-29-13, almost 9 years since this recipe was originally posted. What great reads the 30 odd reviews about this recipe were for me! I am amazed about how so many give a recipe 5 stars yet specify that they completely amended the recipe! There were so many suggestions about this recipe that I am now uncertain about how to proceed! Should I cut down on the butter? Should I cut down on the cooking time for the chicken?; Do I really use the chicken without getting any color on it beforehand? IMO, the answers are: yes, yes, and no! And not including a quick sautee in 1 tsp of canola oil to get some color on the chicken is a major flaw in this recipe, as is the overlong cooking time which will dry out and toughen chicken breasts, even if submerged in butter and condensed soup and even wine! Some of the suggestions by reviewers that I now include in my version of this recipe include the addition of sautéed onions and mushrooms and the addition of 1 cup of Chablis and 1 package of Lipton Secrets Onion Mushroom Soup and Dip Mix. I wish to thank the O/P (truebrit) for posting his/her recipe for this dish and allowing me to criticize it. As is, this recipe does not work. Happy cooking!
     
  3. I was pleasantly surprised by this recipe. I knew it would be good, but my husband really raved over this. I made this as written, but cut the amount of butter in half and used 1/3 less fat cream cheese. It was nice and creamy and had a great flavor. I served this over corkscrew pasta. This will be one of my go-to crockpot recipes. Thanx!
     
  4. YUM. total comfort food type meal. I was short on time and only had frozen chix tenderloins so I put the cooked on high for about 3 hours. Added rest of ingredients and about another hour on high. I did also add milk per the other reviews. Had dry italian dressing on hand so used a little of that and only about 3 tablespoons butter. Kids and I both ate it up over rice. Delish!! Thanks for posting!
     
  5. I love this dish. When i first came across it I fixed like it said to. Now i use Bow Tie pasta and i add california blend vegies. Makes it into a great casserole.
     
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Tweaks

  1. Loved it! We can't get cream of chicken soup here so used Recipe #57287 with a chicken consumme liquid as the liquid instead. I can buy 'blocks 'of ham but the more finely shredded stuff that's more expensive but better quality is the one we prefer so I used that too. DH had his with pasta and salad, I had mine just with salad. While mine wasn't swimming in butter, it did seem like a lot (im my crockpot at least) I do believe that I could cut down on it considerably to make this healthier, so next time I might even just add a tablespoon of olive oil (a healthier fat)and sub the rest of the butter with the correct volume of chicken stock. I think that a few blanched veggies (thin sliced broccoli, peas, green beens) thrown in at the very end would go well in this too, to complete a more or less one pot meal. I will also increase the herb ratio next time - just personal preference. Please see my rating system: 4 stars for a very easy comfort home meal that will be on our menus again and which we will adapt a little to cut the cholesterol so that we can enjoy it more often. Thanks!
     
  2. OMG...this was so GOOD! I did use only 1/4 c.butter and subbed some white wine to make up for the lost moisture (I thought it was an inspired move...loved the flavor it added), I also added some sauteed mushrooms and onions with the soup, ham, cream cheese phase. It was extremely well recieved over buttered noodles. This is a sure fire repeat!
     
  3. Very easy! I was looking for a nice winter comfort meal and this was perfect. I cut up the chicken into 1" chunks and used CookbookCarrie's Dry Cream Soup Mix in place of the canned cream of chicken soup. I was wondering if there should be more cream cheese, but 8 oz is perfect. My cooking time was 6 hours -- but my crockpot always seems to cook fast. Thanks!
     

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