Recipe This | Mediterranean Chicken Casserole In Slow Cooker (2024)

Mediterranean ChickenCasserole. How to make a deliciousMediterranean chicken casserole in the slow cooker. Loaded with Mediterranean vegetables,tomatoes and olives for that authentic Mediterranean one pot meal.

ThisMediterranean chicken casserole is an updated post. We originally created thishealthy Mediterranean casserole for the Dutch Oven back in the January of 2017,while on the whole30. But felt with our love for our new slow cooker, that wecould update it and make it into a slow cooker recipe for you instead.

MediterraneanChicken Casserole

I am very blessed to live in Portugal. Take off today when I am typing this up in a freezing office while it is raining like cats and dogs outside. But the rest of the time I am truly blessed.

The sun shines the majority of the year and temperatures never go down to freezing and in the summer, it is so hot only the local beach or waterpark will do.

But forget the weather that every expat always quotes as the best bit, what I really love is the food. I just can’t get enough of it.

Delicious fresh sardines, piri piri chicken at a fraction of the price of Nandos, organic vegetables that cost cents, good quality chickens and the list goes on and on.

Here at the Milners, life in thecolder winter months revolves around lots of chicken casseroles like this one.We especially enjoy a casserole in the winter months as it is a great comfortingway to warm up.

Behind the scenes note – when we were making this, I had a baby to breastfeed first, this meant it didn’t make it onto the dinner table on time and my eldest son (15 at the time) was far from impressed at having his lunch after 2pm.

But when he had finished eating it, he said “it was food worth waiting for”. So that made me happy!

Now whenever I make him a MediterraneanChicken Casserole, I always say it is worth waiting for!

MediterraneanChicken Casserole In Slow Cooker

As I have mentioned above, I have converted this Mediterranean chicken casserole to the slow cooker.

In last years Black Friday Deals Dominic purchased for me a brand-new slow cooker.

It is the Crockpot brand and unlike many slow cookers the slow cooker pot is suitable for the stovetop.

This means it is ideal for any Dutch Oven recipe such as this one. That is because you can crisp up your skin on chicken on the stovetop prior to slow cooking your casserole.

This is the Crockpot we have and we thoroughly recommend getting one that will crisp your food, or use for reducing liquid in your slow cooker meals.

ChickenCasserole With Mediterranean Vegetables

I always complain to lots of my American readers that I can’t source a lot of American food.

Such as spaghetti squash or corn dogs. But while I can’t get these American classics what I can get is the best Mediterranean vegetables all year around.

Forget having to blanch and thenfreeze courgette, or zucchini as Americans call it, we have it whenever welike.

The same goes for delicioustomatoes, the tomatoes are there whenever I want them, and I binge on tomatoesevery week.

In this Mediterranean casseroletoday, I will be including delicious parsnips, swede, tomatoes and carrots.

MediterraneanChicken Casserole With Olives

This Mediterranean chicken casserole with olives has the wow factor because of the olives. We used delicious seasoned olives that we got from Olly’s Olives and they were superb.

You can use any green olivesthat you want, but flavoured olives do a great job of flavouring your Mediterraneanchicken casserole as it cooks.

More Additions To Our Mediterranean Chicken Casserole

But its not just about the Mediterranean vegetables and theolives. There are other delicious additions to this yummy Mediterranean casserole.

• Choose your meat – You can use a mixture of your favourite chicken in this casserole. You could chop up a whole chicken and have a mix of chicken thighs, chicken wings and chicken drumsticks and breast. Or you could load up a pack of chicken thighs. We used chicken legs and chopped them into chicken drumsticks and chicken thighs. I love to do this because chicken legs are cheap and the chicken will stretch further.

• Add chorizo – I love to make a Mediterranean chicken and chorizo casserole. It will be loaded with a whole chorizo and OMG it is like you are in Spain when you try a Mediterranean casserole like this.

• Mix and match – You can also mix and match with your favourite seasonal Mediterranean vegetables. I worked with what I had in my fridge but you could include aubergine and mixed peppers too.

MediterraneanChicken Casserole In Slow Cooker

Cooking Mediterranean chicken casserole in slowcooker is so simple:

1. Crisp your skin in the slow cooker on the stovetop with extra virgin olive oil until you have delicious crispy skin.
2. Remove the chicken from the slow cooker.
3. Peel and dice your vegetables and load into the slow cooker.
4. Add in chorizo, tomatoes, seasonings and stir well.
5. Load your chicken on top, add olives and cook your chicken casserole for 4 hours on high or 8 hours on low.
6. Serve.

More MediterraneanRecipes On Recipe This

Here at Recipe This we love sharing with our readers lots ofdelicious dishes. One type of food that we love to share is Mediterranean food.

Here are a few more Mediterranean recipes to try out next:

• Air Fryer Nandos Chicken Wings
• Instant Pot Mediterranean Chicken Wings
• Air Fryer Roasted Mediterranean Vegetables
• Air Fryer Patatas Bravas
• Instant Pot Spanish Chorizo And Potato Hash

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