This tasty Slow Cooker Chicken and Corn Soup is a great recipe for anyone who wants a hands-off dinner with minimal preparation. It's a set it and forget it, dump and go recipe that requires very little effort but that creates a flavorful meal full of sweet corn and tender seasoned chicken.
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Slow Cooker Chicken and Corn Soup makes a delicious appetizer or lunch but is hearty enough for soup lovers to enjoy as a main meal. This delicious comforting soup is a great way to use up leftover seasoned whole chicken or a store bought rotisserie chicken. It's a favorite soup of ours alongside Instant Pot beef barley, chicken and rice soup and classic chicken noodle soup.
This chicken and corn soup recipe is so easy. Just add all ingredients to the slow cooker and let it do it's thing! It pairs perfectly with crusty bread, like homemade cheese bread, toasted garlic bread or Italian bread and even a simple toasted white bread.
Why This Recipe Works
- This slow cooker chicken corn soup works perfectly for anyone who wants a hands-off dinner, whether you're at work all day or home and simply don't want to put much effort into making dinner.
- The ingredients are simple pantry staples that you should be able to find easily if you don't already have them on hand.
- The combination of seasonings is simple and aromatic, complimenting the vegetables and sweet corn to create the perfect balanced flavor.
- It's a dump and go, set it and forget it soup recipe that requires very little effort and hands on work aside from chopping vegetables and chicken!
- It can be cooked on the high or low setting with the same great results.
Ingredients
- Rotisserie chicken: or a leftover whole chicken shredded or cut into bite-sized pieces. See the notes below for using raw boneless skinless chicken breasts.
- Sweet corn: as written the recipe calls for 2 cans of sweet corn, but you can use fresh corn kernels cut off the cob or a bag of frozen corn.
- Carrots
- Celery
- Potatoes: use waxy potatoes for the best results, such as baby potatoes.
- Onion: sweet onion gives this soup the best flavor but yellow onion works too.
- Garlic: we're using fresh garlic cloves but you can also use garlic powder instead. For extra garlicky flavor use roasted garlic cloves.
- Chicken broth or chicken stock
- Seasonings: thyme, parsley, chili powder, salt and black pepper.
- Bay leaf
Instructions
STEP 1: Add to the slow cooker diced rotisserie chicken, cans of sweet corn and 1 cup of the liquid, diced potato, chopped carrots, chopped celery, diced sweet onion, minced garlic cloves, chicken broth, thyme, parsley, chili powder, salt, pepper and bay leaf. Stir and cover.
STEP 2: Set to LOW for 6 hours or HIGH for 4 hours.
Serve warm topped with oyster crackers, croutons, or other preferred toppings.
Chef's Tips
- Use a store bought rotisserie chicken or homemade whole seasoned chicken that's been diced or shredded into small pieces for the easiest way to prepare this soup. You can use 1 pound of raw boneless skinless chicken breasts if you prefer. Dice the fresh chicken into small pieces and add to the crockpot with all ingredients.
- For potatoes that stand up to long cooking and keep their shape and tender texture in soup, use waxy potatoes such as baby potatoes, red potatoes or fingerlings.
Variations
- Make creamy chicken corn soup by replacing half of the chicken broth with heavy cream. You can also add cream cheese or a cup or two of shredded cheddar, monterey jack, colby jack or asiago cheese once the soup has finished cooking to make it extra creamy.
- Use fresh corn cut straight off the cobs. You can cut the corn kernels off the cob prior to cooking or add the entire cob to the soup as it cooks. The latter will create a more flavorful, sweet soup and is how I make this creamy Instant Pot corn chowder.
- Make it even heartier by adding egg noodles during the last 20 minutes of cooking time.
Recipe FAQs
Yes! You can use diced boneless skinless chicken in place of a precooked chicken.
No, you can keep the skin on the potatoes to make preparation even quicker or if you just love potato skin.
Yes! This recipe is versatile so feel free to replace the cans of corn with fresh corn kernels or frozen sweet corn.
Recipe
Slow Cooker Chicken and Corn Soup
Equipment
- slow cooker
Ingredients
- 3 cups rotisserie chicken diced or shredded
- 2 cans sweet corn 15 ounces each, plus 1 cup of the liquid
- 1 cup waxy potato diced
- 2 carrots chopped
- 3 celery stalks chopped
- 1 cup sweet onion diced
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 7 cups chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon chili powder
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 bay leaf
Instructions
- Add to the slow cooker diced rotisserie chicken, cans of sweet corn and 1 cup of the liquid, diced potato, chopped carrots, chopped celery, diced sweet onion, minced garlic cloves, chicken broth, thyme, parsley, chili powder, salt, pepper and bay leaf. Stir and cover.
- Set to LOW for 6 hours or HIGH for 4 hours.
- Serve warm topped with oyster crackers, croutons, or other preferred toppings.
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Ramona says
This soup looks absolutely delicious, I would leave the corn out as I think it will make it too sweet for my taste, but other than that ... utter deliciousness and I can't wait to try it.
Savita says
This slow cooker chicken and corn soup recipe is an absolute game-changer! I've made it multiple times now, and each time it gets better and better.
Jenny says
It's such an easy soup to make, and it tastes really good. Thanks, I will definitely make it again.