I know you were wondering what to do for dinner this week. Here’s your plan for tomorrow!
I am still taking full advantage of my slow cooker during these hot months. The girls and I had a day-trip on the schedule today, so I plopped this in the crockpot and it was ready to go shortly after naptime.
Both girls were a huge fan of the chicken and carrots, so I will be making this again in the near future. You can serve the chicken breasts whole as shown, or shred and serve over rice, noodles or quinoa.
Hope you enjoy this slow cooker chicken!
Lemon Basil Slow Cooker Chicken
- In a bowl, mix together chicken broth, lemon juice, basil and parsley. Set aside
- Place chopped carrots on the bottom of your slow cooker.
- Next layer chicken breasts on top of carrots and season both side with lemon pepper. If you do not have lemon pepper, season with salt and pepper.
- Pour chicken broth mixture over chicken.
- Set your slow cooker 3 hours on HIGH or 5-6 on LOW.
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Lemon Basil Slow Cooker Chicken
Ingredients
- 4-5 boneless skinless chicken breast.
- 3 cups of chopped carrots
- 3/4 cup of chicken broth
- 3 Tbsp of lemon juice if using fresh lemon, which I recommend, would be about 4-5 lemons
- 1 Tbsp dried basil
- 1 tsp dried parsley
- lemon pepper or salt and pepper for seasoning the chicken.
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix together chicken broth, lemon juice, basil and parsley. Set aside
- Place chopped carrots on the bottom of your slow cooker.
- Next layer chicken breasts on top of carrots and season both side with lemon pepper. If you do not have lemon pepper, season with salt and pepper.
- Pour chicken broth mixture over chicken.
- Set your slow cooker 3 hours on HIGH or 5-6 on LOW.
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Jennifer says
This looks delicious! I have a whole chicken that I am going to try this recipe with. I like the idea of serving it over rice, brown perhaps?
Corey @ Family Fresh Meals says
Brown rice sounds great!
Sarah says
Ooh.. another lovely looking chicken crockpot recipe! Will try it for sure. Yum!
Miz Helen says
Hope you are having a great weekend and thank you so much for sharing your awesome recipe with Full Plate Thursday.
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Miz Helen
Sarah says
In the crockpot now! Although it’s only been about 4 1/2 hours and it looks done! Turning it down for dinner in a bit! Smells delish!
Corey @ Family Fresh Meals says
Oh good Sarah! So glad you are giving it a try! Yeah, every crockpot seems to run a little bit different, so I think it is always a good idea to be around when cooking a new crockpot recipe for the first time, in case it looks like it needs to be turned down early.
Kay says
Don’t have any parsley but I have everything else ready to be thrown into the crockpot before church tomorrow. Looks delicious
Corey says
Awesome Kay 🙂 I hope you love it! XO
Lisa says
This recipe looks great. Can you tell me if I only want to cook two chicken breasts vs 3-4, do I reduce liquid and seasoning by half? Or same regardless? Thanks!
Corey says
I have never used only 2 breast, but I think that sounds like a good plan 🙂 If you want to add a little extra liquid in, you can always drain it off at the end.
Miranda says
Tried this today for my mom’s birthday dinner it is SO good
Corey says
Happy bday to your Mom! I am so glad you liked it 🙂 XO
LauraB says
Would you mind telling me what size crockpot you use? I have a little one, so I try to adjust recipe size to fit it (and I’m a relatively new cook, so straying too far from a recipe scares me!)
Corey says
I have made this in both my 4qt and my 6qt for this recipe. What size is your crockpot?
Janet says
Just finish dinner with this recipe. Didn’t turn out like I thought it would. Is the broth level suppose to be over the chicken?
Puckered says
I had fresh Meyer lemons, but was Leary of using 4-5 of them you suggested so only used 3 of them. Lord help me! The lemon was so overpowering in the meat and carrots it made my mouth pucker and toes curl. I’m thinking you meant 4-5 tablespoons. But I read the instructions 5-6 times before proceeding. And after the tart taste test at the end of the cooking time, I read it three more times. Sure enough I did not err in using at least the juice of 3 lemons. Needless to say, none else will eat it, but I will have to , as I hate to waste food. I even mixed up some cream of chicken soup and put on it but the tartness had penetrated the chick an carrots so thoroughly it did not help.
Corey says
Hi Karen,
The directions actually state 3 TBSP of lemon juice. I mentioned that it might take 4 lemons to get that much juice so people were not short when they came to make it. If you had 3 large, juicy lemons, that would have been WAY too much lemon juice. This is why I had the exact measurement of 3 TBSP. I am so sorry the dish did not turn out for you.