Crockpot Chicken Nachos — The Easiest Dinner for a Crowd
When the Crock-Pot Is Your Best Thursday Night Friend
Every Thursday night, our front door opens and college students start showing up for dinner. It started as a small thing — just a few kids who needed a home-cooked meal — and now it’s one of my favorite nights of the week. We usually have anywhere from seven to ten extra people around our table, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. These are our people.
This particular Thursday I was also watching one of our friends’ baby girls, which means there may be a little bit of baby commentary in the background of this video. You’re welcome. 😄
This Crockpot Chicken Nachos recipe is one of my absolute go-to meals for Thursday nights — and honestly for any night when you need to feed a crowd without losing your mind. You throw everything in the Crock-Pot in the morning, and by the time everyone shows up, the whole house smells incredible and dinner is basically done. Set out the chips and toppings and let everyone build their own plate. Nachos, tacos, burritos, bowls — this chicken works for all of it.
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Tools & Ingredients I Recommend for This Recipe
- My Favorite 7-Quart Slow Cooker (Shop on Amazon) — big enough to hold a doubled batch for a crowd and keeps everything warm while people go back for seconds
- Better Than Bouillon (Shop on Amazon) — Stephanie’s secret weapon for deep, rich flavor in slow cooker recipes
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Crockpot Chicken Nachos for a Crowd
Ingredients
Method
- Place chicken breasts in the bottom of your slow cooker.
- Pour chicken broth over chicken.
- Add Rotel and taco seasoning. Stir to combine.
- Cook on high for 4 hours or low for 8 hours.
- Shred chicken with two forks and stir back into the juices. Let sit for 15-20 minutes to soak up all that flavor.
- Set out tortilla chips and your favorite toppings and let everyone build their own plate!
Video
Notes
What I love most about this recipe — besides how ridiculously easy it is — is how versatile it is. Set out the chips and toppings and suddenly you have a nacho bar. Swap the chips for flour tortillas and it’s taco night. Serve it over rice and you’ve got burrito bowls. This one recipe does it all, and your crowd gets to choose their own adventure.
For our Thursday night dinners I doubled the recipe and it fed everyone beautifully with plenty of chicken left over. The leftovers are just as good the next day — maybe better because the chicken has had even more time to soak up all that flavor.
The toppings are half the fun. We put out shredded cheese, sour cream, lettuce, tomatoes, black olives, jalapeños, and guacamole and let everyone go to town. There were zero complaints and zero leftovers on the nacho front.
The star of the show though is the Crock-Pot 7-Quart Slow Cooker (Shop on Amazon) — it holds the whole doubled batch easily and keeps everything warm while people go back for seconds. Find it and all the tools I use in my kitchen on my Shop My Kitchen page!
More Crowd-Pleasing Thursday Night Dinners
If Crockpot Chicken Nachos are your kind of weeknight dinner, here are a few more that feed a crowd with almost zero effort:
- Quick & Easy Tater Tot Casserole — another Thursday night staple that disappears every single time
- Cajun Chicken Pasta — one pan, 30 minutes, and everyone goes back for seconds
- Daddy’s Famous Crockpot Chili — another slow cooker winner with a secret ingredient everyone asks about
Crockpot Chicken Nachos — About Stephanie’s Recipes
Stephanie’s recipes are a little bit of everything — treasured old family recipes passed down through generations, dishes she has developed and made her own over the years, great finds from church ladies (because if you want a good recipe, ask a church lady!), and inspiration from food bloggers and corners of the internet. Sometimes she flexes her culinary muscles and creates something spectacular. But most of the time? Quick, easy, and absolutely delicious. Because at the end of the day, Stephanie cooks for her family and her people — and the best recipe is the one that brings everyone to the table, keeps them there a little longer, and leaves them happy and full.
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