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If you’re looking for a delicious and flavorful slow cooker meal, try this pesto & ranch chicken. It’s loaded with bold flavors and easy too!
Slow Cooker Ranch & Pesto Chicken
When I’m planning out my family’s meals for the week, this recipe is one I keep in my pocket for when I know I’ll have an especially busy day and need to just dump dinner in the crock pot and move on to the next task calling my name.
You can pair this delicious chicken with rice or pasta, or serve alone for a protein-packed meal. Here’s how to make this Slow Cooker favorite.
MENU TIP: This Pesto & Ranch Chicken recipe is from week 5 of our slow cooker volume 1 menu planning made easy set!
Ingredients needed for Pesto & Ranch Chicken
- Chicken breasts
- Pesto sauce
- Dry Ranch Dressing mix
- Chicken broth
- Angel hair pasta or rice if desired
- Parmesan cheese
How to make Pesto & Ranch Chicken in the Slow Cooker
Place your chicken breasts into your slow cooker. Then, spread the pesto sauce over the chicken and sprinkle with ranch dressing mix.
Pour one cup of chicken broth into your slow cooker.
That’s it! Didn’t I say this one was little-to-no-prep?! Cover and cook on low 4-6 hours (cooking time may vary depending on the size of your slow cooker. Make sure to check out our Slow Cooker Secrets to find out how to master your slow cooker!)
When the chicken is almost done, prepare angel hair pasta or rice and top with chicken, if desired.
Slow Cooker Pesto & Ranch Chicken
Ingredients
- 2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 6 oz jar pesto sauce
- 1 oz pkg Ranch dressing mix
- 1 cup chicken broth
- angel hair pasta or rice (optional)
- grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
Instructions
- Place chicken into slow cooker.
- Spread pesto over chicken and sprinkle with ranch dressing mix.
- Pour chicken broth into slow cooker.
- Cover, and cook on low 4-6 hours.
- Serve alone or over pasta or rice and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese, if desired.
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Love the flavor of pesto? Try these other recipes!
- Homemade Pesto Recipe
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- Turkey Pesto Lasagna
I just made this for the first time this weekend and I love it so much. I think this is going to be one of my go to weekend meals for when I need to prep for the week. I loved the flavor combo and how easy it was to make.
This just makes us so happy to hear that you loved it! It’s definitely a PPP Team favorite. Thanks so much for letting us know. We appreciate the sweet feedback and for your support! 🙂
I really don’t like to leave negative reviews, BUT here I am. I am new to PPP. I recently bought the 2025 home planner and I’m very excited to use it. I am intrigued by the recipe sets, so I thought I would give some of the recipes on the blog a try before I buy the recipe cards. This was the first recipe I tried. I was a bit skeptical combining ranch flavors and pesto together, but was hoping to be pleasantly surprised. I am here to tell you this flavor combination not only wasn’t pleasing, it’s almost like the flavors cancelled each other out. It was so awful that we didn’t eat it. The next morning I fed it to my chickens and they wouldn’t even eat it. I think part of the problem is that pesto isn’t supposed to be cooked, rather just warmed up. IF I were to ever try something like this again, I would leave the pesto out and just add it at the end for the last 15 minutes. I will keep testing out your other recipes but next time I think I will trust my intuition! I hope that my review will help someone else without causing harm to PPP because that is not my intention! Thank you for posting recipes.
We so appreciate your honest feedback, Kathleen! We always love to hear our customer’s reviews of the recipes and how they adapt them to fit their own preferences. We can’t wait to hear what you think of the Home Planner and any other PPP recipes that you try! 🙂