Slow Cooker Creamy Salsa Chicken

Published by

Clare Whitfield

Last Updated

September 17, 2025

Delicious chicken schnitzel topped with fresh vegetables and served with lemon wedges. Perfect for b.

Looking for a delicious chicken recipe that’s a bit different? Our Slow Cooker Creamy Salsa Chicken will tick all the boxes!

Delicious, moist and flavourful – it will be one that that kids will request time and time again.

You can use chicken breast (pictured) or chicken on the bone which is not only cheaper – but chicken when cooked on the bone always has more flavour.

Creamy salsa chicken in a slow cooker with chicken breasts and cooking utensils.

Slow cooker with chicken pieces cooking in creamy salsa sauce.

Slow Cooker Creamy Salsa Chicken for easy family dinner.

You can choose to use tomato salsa from a jar, or you can try making your own with our quick salsa recipe.

Fresh ingredients for slow cooker creamy salsa chicken recipe.

It’s up to you! Either way, it’ll surely be a tasty meal.

Slow Cooker Creamy Salsa Chicken

Recipe by Stay at Home Mum

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Course: entreeCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Medium

Servings

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servings

Prep time

minutes

Cooking time

hours

Calories

400

kcal

Total time

hours

minutes

Cook Mode

Keep the screen of your device on

Ingredients

4 Chicken breasts
1 Sour cream (125 millilitre)
1/4 cups Water
35 gram Taco seasoning
300 gram Tomato salsa
Tomato Salsa:
1 Spanish Onion
1 Ripe Avocado
1 cup Cherry tomatoes
1 Lemon
2 Spring Onions

Directions

Place chicken, salsa, taco seasoning and water in the slow cooker on high for 4hrs or low for about 6-8 hours.
Adjust according to the size of chicken breasts.
How to Make the Salsa:
Basically, it is just putting everything in the food processor. The onions, tomatoes, the spring onions and the avocado.
After that, you can juice the lemon and add that in.
Now you are ready to serve the chicken from the slow cooker. Put it on a plate, add some sour cream and pour over the salsa on the chicken with some tomatoes to garnish.

Notes

Slow Cooker Creamy Salsa Chicken can be frozen for up to four months.
Serve with rice, some tortillas or corn chips! Yum!

Slow Cooker Creamy Salsa Chicken | Stay at Home Mum

Clare Whitfield Chief Editor

Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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Responses to “Slow Cooker Creamy Salsa Chicken”

karene

September 13, 2012

this is so yummy hubby loves it and wants it on the monthly menu, chicken was so soft i only used a fork for the whole meal. I didn’t put it in the slow cooker done in the scan pan on stove simmered for an hour and a half. Pitty no left overs for that’s how good it was. 5 star.

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Hannah

March 22, 2013

Use Greek yogurt instead of sour cream to make it lower fat and still so yummo!

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Amanda

November 1, 2013

This was really good. Added and extra 1/4 c water as it looked a bit dry and it turned out perfectly.

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Guest

April 13, 2014

Cooked this for the first time today. Was really nice. I cooked it in the slow cooker and the chicken was very easy to just shred. At the end I put it in the oven with some cheese on the top. I served it with sour cream and avocado and corn chips. So it was kind of like chicken nachos. Next time I think I might shred the chicken put in some tortillas and finish off in the oven with cheese. Really you could do anything Mexican with it once you cook and shred it. Kids loved it too.

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1. Stay at Home Mum
  
  April 13, 2014
  
  that’s great! 🙂
  
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Lori

April 13, 2014

Cooked this for the first time today. Was really nice. I cooked it in the slow cooker and the chicken was very easy to just shred. At the end I put it in the oven with some cheese on the top. I served it with sour cream and avocado and corn chips. So it was kind of like chicken nachos. Next time I think I might shred the chicken put in some tortillas and finish off in the oven with cheese. Really you could do anything Mexican with it once you cook and shred it. Kids loved it too.

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