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I’m never going to convince my family to love sweet potatoes like I do. But this dish did convince the to eat them. My oldest daughter even said the sweet potatoes were pretty good. She didn’t think she liked them at all, but decided to give them a try when I served this.
This is a basic, quick recipe. The prep is easy – just 4 ingredients too! Chicken and sweet potatoes are a great combination. Add a little butter and brown sugar and they’re even better.
Here’s what you’ll need:
Feel free to alter this recipe as you see fit. Add more butter and brown sugar. Or less. Or add apples too. Or use carrots instead of sweet potatoes. I don’t think you can mess this one up. Adapt away!
Ingredients
- 2 lbs. boneless chicken breast
- 3 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut in chunks
- 5 Tbs. butter, melted
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Put the chicken and sweet potatoes in the crockpot. (I added the chicken still frozen.)
- Stir the brown sugar into the melted butter. Add salt and pepper.
- Pour over chicken and sweet potatoes.
- Cook on low for 7-8 hours or high for 5-6 hours.
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Oh YUUUM! This sounds so good…we try to limit eating white taters, but sweet taters are on our menu often. Love the ease and simplicity of this one – will be making it soon. I just printed your pork chop/apple recipe this week and plan to make that soon too. Thanks -
I serve sweet potatoes about once every two months, and my kids always complained or pushed them around or just flat out refused to eat them. Then about a year ago I made them some way that my oldest loved – it was some kind of super sweet casserole. But since then, he’s eaten them every time I’ve served them even though I’ve never made that same recipe again. He even talks his brother into trying a bite each time. Don’t give up on those frequently refused foods.
This recipe definitely looks like a keeper.
I can’t WAIT to try this…YUM! and easy. YEAH!
I’m cooking this for dinner tonight. Yum!
YUM! That sounds so tasty…and easy and fast too. Love this kind of recipe you often share!
Is there anyway i could make this in the oven, i never owned a crockpot
Amilea, yes you can make it in an oven. Use a large oven proof pot (like a dutch oven). Bake it for about 1 1/2 hours at 350 degrees.
Wow thanks for fast reply, so I’m not sure what a Dutch oven is. Can I place in a casserole dish or a pot into the oven?
A Dutch oven is basically a large casserole dish with a lid. If you don’t have one with a lid, just cover with foil.
I’m wondering if adding carrots and onion would be good. Think I may try it!
Carrots and onion sound like great additions to this!
this looks delicious! do you frozen or thawed chicken?
Nicole, you can do it with either thawed or frozen. I’m lazy, so I often skip the thawing step. Just make sure you give your slow cooker plenty of cooking time if you use frozen.
Would the time be altered if using chicken thighes? This is my first time using my crockpot. It is a 5 quart nd I’m using a liner, does this make any difference?
Thanks Veronica
Veronica, the time will be about the same for any cut of chicken. If you have chicken with bones or chicken that is frozen you may need to give it the full time listed. The size of the crock won’t matter either or the liner. But if the crock isn’t very full at all, it will tend to cook much faster.
This looked sooooo good but my chicken ended up dry and the potatoes were all mashed.
it still tasted good… Just not sure how to make the chicken moist? My chicken was semi frozen so I only cooked it on low for about 5 hours… Maybe that was too long?
That shouldn’t have been much too long. It is hard to keep boneless chicken breasts moist in the crockpot. And sometimes I have more trouble with that than others. Sorry it didn’t turn out like you’d hoped.
sounds a little sweet for my taste buds, but do you think it might be good if I added 1/3 cup soy sauce and some sriracha to give it a sweet and spicy flavor?
I think that sounds worth a try. Maybe a little less soy sauce, but you may like it with more. Let me know how it goes!
i made this tonight and loved both the simplicity and the flavor! I added an onion, cut butter back to 4 T., and used artisan garlic salt. It was sooo good! My chicken breasts were not frozen and i cooked for 4 hrs. It seems 5 hrs. is way to long if not using frozen chicken. If i had gotten home sooner i would have turned it off at 3 or 3 1/2 hrs.