How to Cook Yummy Easy Crock Pot Whole Chicken

Easy Crock Pot Whole Chicken. Want to enjoy a tender and succulent rotisserie style chicken at home? Make this Crock Pot Whole Chicken recipe and enjoy any flavor rotisserie chicken you like just by changing up the seasonings you use to season the chicken. This was one of the best crock pot chicken recipes I've ever tasted.

For variety, eliminate the onion and substitute a quartered lemon or two, stuffed into the chicken cavity. The standard size slow cookers are a bit too small and a whole chicken won't fit. Once you try this crockpot whole chicken recipe you won't cook a whole chicken any other way! You can have Easy Crock Pot Whole Chicken using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Easy Crock Pot Whole Chicken

1. It's 1 of Chicken.
2. Prepare 1 of Onion.
3. Prepare 1 of celery.
4. Prepare 1 of carrot.
5. Prepare 1 of black pepper.
6. It's 1 of salt.
7. It's 1 of sage.
8. You need 1 of paprika.
9. It's 1 of cayenne pepper.
10. Prepare 1 of garlic salt.
11. Prepare 1 of bay leaf.

It is seriously so good and loaded with flavor! I'm pretty sure it is safe to say that this slow cooker whole chicken is life-changing! Life is about to get easy… like really easy with this whole chicken in the slow cooker recipe. You can use either a thawed or frozen chicken.

Easy Crock Pot Whole Chicken step by step

1. Trim and wash chicken. Clean out inside.
2. Cut enough veggies to fill inside of chicken. Season with salt and pepper. Stuff chicken..
3. Put generous amounts of butter under skin all over chicken.
4. Mix all spices including more salt and pepper. Just add a little of everything. Sprinkle all over, rub in. Place chicken in crock pot with 1 Bay leaf. Do not add any liquid chicken will make its own.
5. I cooked mine on high for about 4 hours and it was falling off the bone. This can be altered just make sure juices run clear.

Once the chicken is done it is flavorful enough to eat by itself as the main dish, or you can incorporate it into something else like pasta, chicken salad, chicken pot pie, or a casserole. This is seriously one of my favorite recipes for the crockpot because well its super fast and super easy. This is also what I bring to Tyler's family holiday meals. All it takes is an onion, some seasoning, a whole chicken and your trusty slow cooker. A complete Sunday meal made easy in the crockpot.