This is one of those super-simple dinners that will blow your mind. Let your crockpot do the work for you with this delicious Pesto Ranch Chicken!
Why oh why have I not been posting recipes, you ask? Because I have been busy redesigning this website and trying to make it friendlier and prettier. And then I have been scrambling to fix mistakes because every redesign comes with inevitable accidents. Like absent-mindedly changing the url of every single post so that nobody can access a single recipe for three hours. We’re all good now. I hope you like the changes!
I have seen variations of this recipe floating around for a while now and I’ve been excited to try it. I was not disappointed. Any time a slow cooker is involved, you know the recipe will be easy. In addition to that, this chicken was packed with flavor and also super tender. It’s a keeper!
Your cooking efforts for the day will be minimal with this recipe! Unless you want a Green Salad or a Chopped Salad and Wild Rice, but you can do that while your slow cooker is working hard.
Be sure to spoon the juices over the chicken before serving!
Slow Cooker Pesto Ranch Chicken
Equipment
- Crock Pot
Ingredients
- 6 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves fat trimmed
- 7 oz. jar pesto
- 1 oz. package dry Ranch dressing mix
- 16 oz. chicken broth
Instructions
- Place chicken breasts in a slow cooker. Top with an even layer of pesto followed by the ranch dressing mix. Pour the chicken broth over top.
- Cook on Low setting for 5 to 6 hours, or until chicken is fully cooked and tender. Serve with rice or noodles. Spoon the juices from the slow cooker over top before serving.
Nutrition
Hey Megan,
This recipe is so delicious that I make it often. The only downfall is that the nutritional info is pretty off. I recreated the recipe in MyFitnessPal and it’s significantly different from the numbers that you calculated. Would you like me to share? I don’t want to take anything away from this amazing meal but some of us are tracking and would like accurate info.
I’m glad you found accurate information. As a food blogger, it is difficult to provide nutritional information with the differences in products, brands, measuring tools. Also, I do not calculate it myself, it’s done through a service. So please use your best judgement on how to measure the nutritional value but I’m sorry this one was so off.
Hi there! I bought ingredients and am excited to try it out. Question, should I use frozen chicken breasts or do they need to be thawed out? Thanks!
They do not need to be thawed, but in this recipe they were for me so just check them and adjust as necessary!
Hi Megan – I’m so happy to have found your blog from a link at "life, love, and sugar" and can’t wait to try your recipes! I am diabetic (I appreciate Lindsay’s talent and really just love to imagine her treats, afraid to fall dangerously into them!), and prefer cooking over baking. She mentioned your cookbook and this Slow Cooker recipe which led me to subscribe to your site. I will be looking for your cookbook, too (cookies are a LITTLE safer). I am rather new to bloggers and I’m quite selective, but look forward to following you more. I do wish I could print the recipes as they appear (1 pg), but instead the entire post is printed. Any suggestions?
First Lin, welcome! I’m so glad you are joining us.
I know the printing issue is annoying. Unfortunately I don’t have a great solution. I would recommend maybe coping and pasting into word or an email body and then printing.
BUT I do have a free app available that you can pull up a lot of my recipes on and then screen shot the ingredients list. It doesn’t have a print option on their yet. It’s Pip and Ebby and here’s the link in case you’d like to try it out! https://pipandebby.app.link/9NdXIbv34L
This sounds really good! Thanks!