Whole Chicken

jyow01
jyow01 Posts: 123 Member
edited January 18 in Recipes
I have a whole chicken that I want to cook in my crock pot. I don't want to add alot of ingredients such as potatoes and carrots my kids want eat them if they are cooked together. What spices do you put on your whole chicken when you cook it?

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  • Alta2000
    Alta2000 Posts: 655 Member
    You can put them as whole not in pieces onion, a couple of carrots, garlic and then remove them at the end. You can have them just for the flavor. Then you can eat them yourself as healthy food. You can add celery, 1 glass white wine,
  • devilwhiterose
    devilwhiterose Posts: 1,157 Member
    I just season the chicken with garlic and onion powder, maybe some rotisserie seasoning...some butter (you didn't say healthy! lol)

    Also, a trick for doing a whole chicken in a crockpot...

    Take some aluminum foil and ball it up to make 3 aluminum foil balls (about 2 inches in diameter). Space them in the crockpot.

    Set the chicken on top of the foil balls. This will allow the chicken to cook without it sitting and getting squishy in all the chicken juice all day!
  • Naptownbabi
    Naptownbabi Posts: 256 Member
    I just season the chicken with garlic and onion powder, maybe some rotisserie seasoning...some butter (you didn't say healthy! lol)

    Also, a trick for doing a whole chicken in a crockpot...

    Take some aluminum foil and ball it up to make 3 aluminum foil balls (about 2 inches in diameter). Space them in the crockpot.

    Set the chicken on top of the foil balls. This will allow the chicken to cook without it sitting and getting squishy in all the chicken juice all day!

    How long and which setting do you cook the chicken?
  • mrfrodogetdown
    mrfrodogetdown Posts: 54 Member
    I use chicken seasoning rub... Its basically salt, pepper, garlic & onion powder, celery seeds and paprika. Yumm! Love slow cooker chicken, so easy!
  • mama2mila
    mama2mila Posts: 92
    yes, you need the onion, carrot, celery, garlic for flavor. Salt and pepper the chicken, stuff the veggies inside, put in crockpot with some butter and white wine. DIVINE. Cook on low 8-9 hours. Leave juices/veggies in the crockpot, throw in the bones and skin, cover with water and cook that overnight. Strain and you have amazing stock to make soup, or use in recipes! I freeze in 1 cup containers to use when needed.
  • jyow01
    jyow01 Posts: 123 Member
    Thanks for all of the great information, this is the first time that I have ever cooked a whole chicken kind of nervous.
  • devilwhiterose
    devilwhiterose Posts: 1,157 Member
    I just season the chicken with garlic and onion powder, maybe some rotisserie seasoning...some butter (you didn't say healthy! lol)

    Also, a trick for doing a whole chicken in a crockpot...

    Take some aluminum foil and ball it up to make 3 aluminum foil balls (about 2 inches in diameter). Space them in the crockpot.

    Set the chicken on top of the foil balls. This will allow the chicken to cook without it sitting and getting squishy in all the chicken juice all day!

    How long and which setting do you cook the chicken?

    Low for about 6 (frozen but not frozen enough where I couldn't remove the bag) Anything longer than 6-8 will make the chicken a little mushy.
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