Chicken and potato slow cooker instructions? (details inside )

Its a crock-pot. sorry.

Do you want to eat it as a stew or a soup or more like roasted chicken with potatoes and veg?

@BellaB Roasted. I might just cook the chicken in my electric frying pan. I cooked the first three pieces in the electric frying pan. Was not impressed. Going to cook them one at a time.

For every piece of chicken, cut 2 potatoes into quarters.

Put the potatoes in the crockpot with some kind of liquid. You can use broth or water. Broth makes it all tastier – but you can adjust the flavours later if you use water. For 2 chicken pieces + 4 potatoes use just under 2 cups of liquid.

Put the chicken pieces on top of the potatoes – skin side up. Throw on salt and pepper and your Mrs. Dash.

What settings does your crockpot have?

Chicken in the electric frying pan is going a whole different direction. Stick with your crock pot for a while – til you have a couple of recipes you like and are good at.

The chicken shouldn’t be in the liquid. It’s probably best to put the liquid in after the potatoes are in, so you can make sure the water level is just below the top of the potatoes.

@BellaB High low and increments of 30 minutes

It would likely be about 8 hours on low, or 2 hours on high and 2.5 – 3 hours on low.

Put more Mrs. Dash on once or twice through the cooking process.

Add the vegetables for the last hour. Definitely no longer as they’d get too mush. Around the same time, put a spoon or two of butter (or margarine) on the potato level.

Spread bbq sauce on half of your chicken pieces for the final 2 – 3 hours. You can taste them with and without sauce and decide how you like them. You can also use the unsauced ones to make nice chicken sandwiches.

This probably sounds weird, but I’d take one of those hot dogs, dice it into tiny pieces and throw it in with the potatoes if you’re using water instead of broth. It will add flavour to the cooking liquid. It’s up to you whether or not you actually eat those tiny hot dogs pieces at the end.

@BellaB Ok I will try it now. No.. its too late I will cook tomorrow.

Good plan for tomorrow. If possible, start preparing it around noon so you can have a nice evening meal.

Some people do this overnight but the smell of the cooking chicken means I wake up hungry which isn’t a good idea (for me).

^^Won’t the potatoes be mush cooking that long?

I think that if you plan to be a house husband, this is the sort of problem that you should learn to solve yourself.

He is solving it. He is asking Fluther.

Chicken was fine just needs salt next time. I ate It. Put the potatoes back in the fridge.

Put potatoes cut in quarters in bottom of crock. Then put a couple of quartered onions. Then place the washed and skinned chicken on top of that. Sprinkle salt, pepper, garlic powder, rosemary, thyme, and celery salt. Cover and turn the crock pot on high for 2.5 hours. Check and if you want it cooked some more, do. This recipe does NOT need one drop of any liquid added. The onions and potatoes are full of water. When done everything will probably be in the liquid that cooked out of the vegetables and meat.