Tender, flavorful, slow-cooker chicken, with a creamy paprika sauce. My Slow-Cooker Chicken Paprikash recipe can be prepped in 15 minutes! Serve it over rice or noodles for a hearty, filling meal.
Update 11/21/18: Made this Slow-Cooker Chicken Paprikash again for Thanksgiving Eve dinner, and it is as good as I remembered from sharing it last year! Quick to prep, hearty, and tasty. No changes made to original recipe, confirmed as delicious. 🙂
I just threw several pounds of pork tenderloin and some BBQ sauce in my slow-cooker this morning around 7:30am. Busting out the slow-cooker is definitely a Sunday morning ritual around here.
I sent my friend Leslie a snap of the ingredients in the pot so that she could see how simple it is to prep. ALL my slow-cooker recipes are ridiculously quick and simple to prep. I need to have lunches for the week, but I don’t have the patience to spend my Sunday in the kitchen cooking. I’d much rather be baking, after all!
Leslie has a 6 month-old (already half-year??) and just went back to work, so she is in desperate need of easy meals. Her first week back to work, and she had ZERO time to do ANYTHING but work and take care of her kid.
I’m a fur-mom, so I know nothing about raising an actual human, but I’m sure a lot of you can relate. She didn’t have a spare second to do dishes or laundry or anything for the house this week, let alone have time for just herself.
Anyhoo, my point is, she was asking me about quick-prep meals, and I was talking to her about some of my go-to recipes. Most of those are slow-cooker recipes because that’s my favorite way to ‘cook’. I suggested this Slow-Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken (my fave!), Slow-Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken, and Slow-Cooker Maple Apple Pork Roast.
I made these Salsa Chicken Fajitas from chicken that I threw into the slow-cooker with a bottle of salsa – that’s it. Just two ingredients, and it’s super versatile. I even make oats in the slow-cooker regularly, and here’s a good PB&J oats recipe.
One of my favorite chicken dishes is Chicken Paprikash, but what I didn’t have was a slow-cooker version, and that’s practically a basic need in my life. Whatever I love to eat, it needs to be adapted into a slow-cooker recipe. Otherwise, I don’t have the time or energy to make it, sadly!
So I’m sharing my version of Slow-Cooker Chicken Paprikash. Not a long list of ingredients, and they’re pretty basic pantry items. You can drop everything into a slow-cooker in about 10 minutes, so prep time is short for this Slow-Cooker Chicken Paprikash. It’s very hearty and filling too.
The chicken is tender and flavorful, and the creamy paprika sauce is smoky and tangy. This is a pretty light version of Slow-Cooker Chicken Paprikash – not loaded with butter, and I used light sour cream. You could even substitute Greek yogurt, we do that often. If you’re a fan of the traditional dish, it never hurts to have a Slow-Cooker Chicken Paprikash recipe on hand!
Slow-Cooker Chicken Paprikash
Ingredients
- 6 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 large yellow onions chopped
- 1 - 24 oz. jar roasted garlic tomato sauce
- 3 tbsp. paprika divided
- 2 tbsp. Better Than Bouillon Chicken Soup base
- 1 tsp. garlic salt
- 4 tbsp. butter melted, divided
- 2 tbsp. flour
- 1 - 16 oz. container sour cream low-fat is fine
- salt & pepper to taste
Instructions
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In a large slow cooker, stir together chicken, onions, tomato sauce, 1 tbsp. paprika, bouillon, garlic salt, and 2 tbsp. butter.
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Cover, and set slow cooker to 'low'. Cook for about 6 hours, or until chicken is tender.
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In a small bowl, combine flour and remaining melted butter.
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Whisk into the slow cooker.
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Cover, and set slow cooker to 'high'.
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Cook for 15 minutes, or until sauce is thickened.
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Turn off slow cooker, and remove from heat.
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Stir in remaining paprika, and sour cream.
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Salt & pepper to taste, and serve hot over rice or noodles.
You may also like these simple dinner recipes:
Honey Balsamic Baked Pork Chops
Slow-Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken
Slow-Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken
Slow-Cooker Maple Apple Pork Roast
Hi!!! Any specific kind of paprika (hot, regular, Hungarian) you like to use!? I’m trying your recipe tomorrow!!!! It looks delicious:)THANK YOU!
Hi!! For the last year or so, I’ve been using homemade paprika from peppers that my brother grew – I’ve been soooo spoiled by fresh paprika! I haven’t bought any in a while. I wish I could be more help, but I would go with what you tend to prefer… maybe just regular? You can always add more in at the end too, if you decide you want it to have more kick! I hope you love the recipe. Please let me know how it turns out for you. 🙂
Can this be doubled? What ingredients would get doubled besides the chicken?
You can definitely double it if you have a slow-cooker big enough! I would double everything!
I know the traditional recipe calls for sour cream but I think it tastes better without it. Tastes really good. I would give it 5 stars, if it wasn’t for the sour cream
I’ve never seen a Chicken Paprikash recipe without sour cream, so I sorta wish you hadn’t taken a star off for something that’s super personal preference, but I do thank you very much for your feedback and comment! 🙂 Glad you mostly enjoyed it, Marsha!!
Let have a look on the recipe of honey paprika chicken tenders, try it and have fun.
The Roasted Garlic tomato sauce that this recipe calls for… is it a can of tomato sauce I’m looking for or a jar of pasta sauce? I’m really looking forward to trying this and using it as a quick meal after our baby arrives in the coming weeks.
Hey there! A jar of pasta sauce – you could really use any variation of pasta sauce, but we tend to usually have the Barilla Roasted Garlic! Good luck with your delivery, and congratulations!!