These Slow Cooker Chicken Philly Cheesesteak Sandwiches are so easy to make! You can also prep it as a freezer meal for a busy night.
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Enjoy a fun spin on a classic sandwich – our Slow Cooker Chicken Philly Cheesesteaks are made with tender chicken, bell peppers, onions, & provolone cheese on a toasted bun.
What You’ll Love About This Recipe:
Slow cooker recipes are perfect for busy families, which is why we love perfecting the best easy dinners the whole family can enjoy, like this slow cooker chicken cheesesteak recipe.
- Set it and Forget It: In this recipe, the slow cooker does all the work, making it perfect for busy weeknights or lazy weekends.
- Amazingly Flavorful: Tender, juicy chicken and perfectly soft veggies meld together for hours and work well in hoagie rolls.
- Freezer-Friendly: The amazing this is that this recipe is designed to be prepped ahead and frozen, saving you time later.
- A Crowd-Pleaser: The combination of this chicken mixture is a guaranteed hit for game day, parties, or family dinner.
Make our Instant Pot Chicken Philly Cheesesteak Sandwiches if you need to speed things up, or try our regular cheesesteak sandwiches for another great recipe.
Ingredient Variations & Substitutions:
- This recipe normally uses provolone cheese for the traditional taste, but you can also use slices of white American cheese or Swiss cheese.
- Add a dash of garlic powder for a boost of flavor.
- Chicken broth makes for the perfect cooking liquid, adding easy flavor, but you can use either water or beef broth in the crock pot.
- Add a little hot sauce or use spicy Italian dressing to add a little heat to the chicken cheesesteaks.
- Any buns will do! We love these on both hoagie rolls or sub rolls.
Pro-Tips for Perfect Slow Cooker Cheesesteak:
- Prep the onions and peppers ahead if you want to be able to dump them in and go for it when making this magical slow cooker recipe. Thin sliced is best!
- This recipe can easily be made into a freezer meal that literally takes only a couple of minutes to prepare.
- You can use frozen chicken breast in the recipe; no need to thaw the chicken.
- Frozen onion, red bell pepper, and green bell pepper can be used in place of the fresh veggies and still get the perfect Philly cheesesteak recipe.
Storage Instructions & Reheating Tips
- To Store: Keep the leftover chicken and vegetable filling in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Always store the filling separately from the buns.
- To Reheat: Reheat the filling in a skillet over medium heat for 3-4 minutes or in the microwave until warm. Assemble on freshly toasted buns with a slice of cheese.
- Freezing Cooked Filling: You can freeze the cooked chicken filling for up to 3 months. Let it cool completely, then store it in a freezer-safe bag or container. Thaw in the refrigerator overnight before reheating.
More Delicious Chicken Recipes:
Slow Cooker Italian Chicken is another crowd and fan favorite recipe to make in the slow cooker. Chicken Enchilada Pasta and Copycat PF Changs Chicken Lettuce Wraps are both great chicken recipes with tons of easily created flavor. And you can never go wrong with the best Cheesy Chicken Pot Pie for a simple comfort food recipe.
Slow Cooker Chicken Philly Cheesesteak Sandwiches Recipe
These Slow Cooker Chicken Philly Cheesesteak Sandwiches are so easy to make! You can also prep it as a freezer meal for a busy night.
Serving Servings
Ingredients
- 1 ½ pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts, (frozen works fine)
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- 14 ounces chicken broth
- 2 green peppers, sliced
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 ounce Italian dressing mix, 1 packet
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 8 buns or hoagies
- 8 Provolone cheese slices
Instructions
- Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray. Place chicken inside slow cooker, place butter on top of chicken and pour chicken broth on top. Layer sliced green peppers, sliced onion, garlic, Italian dressing mix, paprika, salt and pepper on top of chicken.
- Cover and cook on low for 6-7 hours (or high for 3-4 hours).
- When chicken is done cooking, remove from slow cooker and shred (it should fall apart pretty easily). Return shredded chicken into liquid in the slow cooker.
- Spoon shredded chicken onto buns and top with pieces of cheese. Another yummy option is to toast your bread in a 375℉ oven for 4-5 minutes, then top with meat and cheese and stick back in the oven for 5 minutes to melt the cheese and make it nice and gooey.
Notes
To make this a freezer meal, place all ingredients in a resealable gallon-sized freezer bag. Mix together and zip bag closed.
When ready to eat, remove from freezer and thaw in fridge for 24 hours. Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray. Pour contents of bag inside the slow cooker.
Cover and cook on low for 6-7 hours (or high for 3-4 hours). Spoon meat mixture onto hoagie buns and top with pieces of cheese. If you wanted to, you could also throw some fresh sliced mushrooms into the slow cooker with the chicken. My sister and I discovered that we loved Dijon mustard on the bread for an additional kick.
When ready to eat, remove from freezer and thaw in fridge for 24 hours. Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray. Pour contents of bag inside the slow cooker.
Cover and cook on low for 6-7 hours (or high for 3-4 hours). Spoon meat mixture onto hoagie buns and top with pieces of cheese. If you wanted to, you could also throw some fresh sliced mushrooms into the slow cooker with the chicken. My sister and I discovered that we loved Dijon mustard on the bread for an additional kick.
Nutrition
Calories: 373 kcal · Carbohydrates: 38 g · Protein: 29 g · Fat: 11 g · Saturated Fat: 5 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 2 g · Trans Fat: 0.1 g · Cholesterol: 72 mg · Sodium: 1097 mg · Potassium: 426 mg · Fiber: 2 g · Sugar: 6 g · Vitamin A: 358 IU · Vitamin C: 27 mg · Calcium: 164 mg · Iron: 11 mg
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Nice sandwich. Thank you. Don’t forget “tooth fairy”.
For your tooth fairy fail, what I always did was put the money under my pillow or something else (like the phone) on top of my pillow so that when I was going to bed, something was out of the ordinary and it would remind me. Good luck and thanks for the recipe! 🙂
Great sandwich but more important than that, just a
beautiful little girl!
The recipe sounds yummy. Will definitely be putting it my recipe file on my computer.
We have definitely forgotten the tooth fairy! Once my son lost his tooth in bed so we told him that the tooth fairy had already left for her rounds so she wasn’t prepared for him. I’ve heard of other parents saying that maybe it “dropped” behind the bed. As for the going rate – no clue – the tooth fairy never visited my house. We give my son between 25 cents to a dollar depending on what change, etc we have on hand.
GOOD LUCK!
Tooth fairy is ALWAYS late at our house 😉
We like to leave a book for our girls for their teeth. This is something that will work for them easily as they grow, too. You have a beautiful little girl!!! Also, your recipes are always so delicious. Thank you!
making these right now…..but, I’m guessing you forgot to add something about cutting up the chicken breasts PRIOR to placing them in the slow cooker? Maybe?? (I assumed they would fall apart after cooking for 4 hours). All I know is I am SO ready to eat these sandwiches…………..my house smells AMAZING!
I made these sandwiches today…delicious and so easy : ) Thanks!!
Your little girl is a doll! The tooth fairy has forgotten to visit our house a time or two–it happens. 🙂
We were once told, “the tooth fairy is a cheapskate!”, we stepped it up after that.
I had a nephew sleep over recently and found out that the tooth fairy leaves him $3. Not sure she will be doing that at our house when we get there. I like the idea of something special though like maybe a susan b. anthony dollar or a $2 bill, though that will require a trip to the bank and a bit of forethought 🙂
By the time my third son starting losing teeth, the tooth fairy had apparently gotten very busy. Sometimes there were so many children losing teeth the same day he did, she didn’t make it to his tooth for 2 or 3 days! And she leaves what we call at our house “golden dollars”. Those are the $1 coins that are gold. So much more fun than an ordinary paper dollar bill and still worth a dollar to spend. (I don’t know where the tooth fairy that visits some kids gets the $20 I hear my son talking about! Way too much, in my opinion.)
I forgot tooth fairy business several nights in a row around Easter time…. I dribbled food coloring on note and printed how I (the tooth fairy) had been so busy helping the Easter bunny dye eggs that I had not had time…My Cara carried that little note in her pocket for weeks!
First of all – – I will definitely be trying this recipe, sounds delicious. Second of all – – – the tooth fairy has forgotten to make a stop at our house too and I have told my kids that the tooth fairy has so many rounds to make, that she just didn’t make it but I bet she will tonight and she’ll leave an extra dollar or something special. : ) My youngest recently lost his tooth at daycare and he had gotten into some trouble that day and we had forgotten the tooth in his cubby but didn’t realize till almost bedtime – – good thing is that I was able to text one of the girls who does side babysitting for me there and she put $2 in place of his tooth and then gave me his tooth on the side later. : ) I obviously have high expectations to fill after that one…………..LOL
We just shredded the chicken after it cooked through.
I forgot to be the “tooth fairy” one night too, and I did the same thing you did, just wrote a sweet apology letter! I think the way you handled it was great, and you probably won’t forget next time now!! 🙂
Good looking sandwich by the way too…on my meal plan soon!
I have loved browsing through your recipes! I definitely think these Chicken Phillys are going in the crockpot tomorrow! (It’s already full today!) I’m new to the blogging world & post about homeschooling and cooking! Stop by sometime! Hope you have a great day!
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We had some tooth fairy goofs when our children were growing up. I started putting the money in my bra when the tooth came out. When getting ready for bed I was reminded to take care of that little rascal. She never forgot again.
I love all the recipes here and will definitely be trying this one very soon! Regarding the tooth fairy: I worked at a bank and it was always fairly easy to have a stash on hand at home of $2 bills or gold $1 coins – either one or the other, so my kids never got more than $2 per tooth! The gold dollars were actually more popular, they’re a little more out of the mainstream.
Sounds yummy! Can’t wait to try. In our house we know the Tooth Fairy is very busy so she may not come that very night (especially if she’s out of cash!) but she will come! I think the note was a great touch! I too had to set an alarm on my phone to remember!
The chicken sounds delish!! As for the tooth fairy, ours soon discovered the truth and wanted us to forget so they got “interest” with a note of apology. Our youngest always wrote notes asking if the fairy could leave her tooth because she wanted to save it. They got whatever change we had or a dollar bill. A few teeth rated more depending if it had been difficult to lose.
Just made this for dinner last night and it was DELISH! My husband said it was his 2nd favorite of all my meals. Super easy and very flavorful!
We used to throw money in the foot of the bed and have them go and check the whole bed. We then we let them know the fairy was busy and missed her usual spot. Worked like a charm.
this one of my FAVORITE recipes. It was delicious. My bf said this meal was, “a success!”
I threw this into the crock pot in the morning on the first day of school. Being a teacher, I knew I would be staying a bit later at school that day so I wouldn’t have time to cook dinner when I got home. I was anxious to sit down to dinner to hear about my twins’ first day and unwind after an eventful one for me. I have tried your slow cooker recipes before and you girls are really spot-on!! This one was another hit! There was enough left over to freeze and use on another busy night. Thanks so much!
this was very good. A lot of liquid so you need to use a slotted spoon. I thought I’d try something interesting and use the chicken in a stuffed pepper to cut out 500 calories. Still topped it with the cheese and it was very good. Probably better on bread. We are reserving the leftovers for tomorrows dinner.
This sounds delicious and so easy to make! 🙂
Thanks for sharing////
Hmmmm although there is some serious false advertisement happening with the name of.this… It still looks amazing. Being born and raised and still residing in Philly i can assure you this isn’t anything like a Philly chicken cheese steak beside the fact that it is chicken.lol
When u say slice the green pepper & onion can u just slice lg for flavor&remove before serving? What kind of onion?
Also in the pic it looks like peppercins like u use with bee,not green peppers…?
You could easily pull out the green pepper and onion before serving. It will add some yummy flavor during cooking.
I forgot one time and she was so upset, so I had her eat her breakfast and went and put the money in the pillow case and told her after breakfast lets go look again maybe you missed it or it was placed in a new spot. I told her sometimes their are new tooth fairies and they all put them in different spots. She
Often the pillow me still didn’t see it, so I told her to look inside the pillow case just in case they moved the spot. There it was, like it was there all along, lol. That never happened again. Now that they are old enough, 9 and 12 they know there’s not a tooth fairy, so they get the money right away. We gave $10 for their very first tooth and for every other tooth it was $5.00. Thank you for all your recipes. They are scrumptious. I love your blog.
The tooth fairy has fallen behind the 8-ball around here more than once, too… we have 2 girls losing teeth like crazy. Who knew there was a second round around 9??? One of us runs distraction, while the other plants the cash. Then we suggest that we help look, because perhaps they have missed what was left. Surprise! It must of simply been overlooked somehow! We leave $5 since that is what their cousins were getting. We let them spend some and they have to save some in their bank accounts.
The recipe will be tried tonight around here… looks perfect. I love slow-cooker recipes and you always have umpteen! I recommend your website to everyone!
Can this only be made in a slow cooker?
When the tooth fairy forgot at our house, she would leave a note the next day saying that there was a lot of children in the world that day that had lost a tooth and that she was behind schedule, and was really really sorry. There was always “fairy dust” on the letters and pillow and around the gold coin that was left. Our tooth fairy always left a shiny gold dollar coin. One time my son put a dogs tooth in the tooth fairy pillow and he got a piece of coal and a note that said, “Good try”! “Santa isn’t the only one who leaves coal.” As they got older and no longer believed in the tooth fairy, they still got their gold coin.
the tooth fairy left a note saying our cat tried to catch her so she had to wait till the next day and if we would kindly lock the cat up that night 😉 and $1 is enough!
Could this all be pre-prepped and frozen to use as a freezer meal? I’m wondering how the onions and peppers would freeze… This recipe sounds delicious!
It should work fine if you prepare it and then freeze it in an airtight container or freezer bag. Then thaw and heat when ready!
love that story ! 😉 This looks amazing. Question: do you get a good amount of leftovers from this recipe? thanks!
My daughter tried to convince me that her friends were getting $5, $10 and upwards of $20 per tooth in her class! She was in 2nd or 3rd grade! Smh! I just told her or Youth Fairy must’ve ran outta money by the time she got to our house then, because she was only getting 25 cents to $1, at the most! LOL!
As written, it appears to get exactly 6 sandwiches. I made it with 2lbs. of chicken, and I had enough for 8 or 9.
Did this recipe get modified? I swear it used to call for Dale’s steak seasoning!
So disappointed in this sandwich. I thought it was flavorless- and waited for my husband to try it, without saying anything. Well he said there is no flavor at all. I followed it exactly, using packet of good season Italian. The flavor of the green peeper seemed to cook out of it as it cooked in crock pot. I think I would put onions and green pepper in half way through. But I won’t make it again. I see someone mentioned steak seasoning- that might help
We would sometimes leave a note apologizing for not being there before they woke but that it had been an extra busy night
I have made this recipe many times. It is always terrific! I add extra onions and peppers because we like them. My family enjoys so much! I use leftovers for lunches the next day. I love the easy prep for this recipe. It is always delicious!
Hi Lisa. We are so glad you love this easy Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich. And this makes the best leftovers!
Did you mean 1 1/2lbs chicken? Not 1 1/2 breasts? If I’m working with frozen chicken I can’t exactly cut a breast in half:)
Thanks for catching that. It is 1 1/2 pounds of chicken.
Yaaaaaaaaaaas! Tasty chicken sandwich but one million percent not a chicken cheesesteak … at all!
This recipe was bland. If I were doing it over I’d maybe double the Italian seasoning. It definitely needs something more.