This chicken sweet potato soup is an easy pantry recipe to make with canned foods you keep on hand for emergency cooking or for a set and forget slow cooker recipe for one pot dinner meals.
Slow Cooker Chicken Sweet Potato Soup Recipe
This is a family favorite recipe and a go-to soup recipe when I’m looking for easy dinner ideas. It’s also a hearty soup that’s more like a stew — which makes it perfect for comfort foods for winter or all year.
One of the things that I love about this recipe is that you can adjust the heat level by using a mild tomato base or a hot Rotel for the base.
This is definitely a recipe that you can easily play around with and adjust to your family’s taste.
Ingredients for Chicken & Sweet Potato Soup For Pantry Cooking
- Canned chicken
- Canned sweet potatoes yams
- Chicken broth
- Rotel
- Can sweet corn
- Canned tomatoes
- Tomato paste
- Onion powder
- Salt
- Pepper
- Hot sauce, optional
*Get the free printable recipe card printable below.
RECIPE TIP: If you want to save money (canned chicken like this can be expensive if you don't find it on sale), you can make this as a vegetarian soup without chicken and it's just as good for a Meatless Monday recipe!
Recipes FAQs and Recipe Tips
This recipe calls for canned sweet potatoes that are NOT in syrup and those can sometimes be hard to find.
Try finding Simple Truth Organic® Sweet Potato Yams if you can. If you can’t, buy the canned sweet potatoes in light syrup and then rinse them before using them for this recipe so they won’t be too sweet.
This recipe is so good with a side of cornbread! I sometimes drop the cheap boxed cornbread mix like this as cornbread dumplings on top of the soup in the crockpot about 30 minutes before it’s finished cooking. Just place the lid back on let it cook!
ANOTHER EASY SOUP RECIPE TO TRY NEXT: Cheap White Bean Chicken Chili Recipe In Slow Cooker
How To Make Crockpot Chicken And Sweet Potato Soup
I also make this when I have fresh sweet potatoes that I need to use up and also sometimes with fresh chicken (or frozen chicken) that I need to use.
I’ve put that alternate recipe information in the recipe notes section in the recipe printout below.
EMERGENCY COOKING TIP: If you are preparing for cooking in power outages, you can place everything in a pot and just heat through on your grill or with a Sterno can.
I also recommend keeping this cheap cooking tool on hand for emergency power outage cooking.
Crock Pot Chicken Sweet Potato Soup
Equipment
- Crockpot
Ingredients
- 2 12-ounce cans chunk chicken in water drained
- 3 15-ounce can sweet potatoes (yams) in water* cubed
- 2 14.5-ounce cans chicken broth
- 1 14.75-ounce can cream sweet corn undrained
- 1 10-ounce cans Rotel Original Diced Tomatoes And Green Chilies original, mild or hot
- 1 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes with basil, garlic and oregano undrained
- 1 6-ounce can tomato paste
- 2 cups water
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in crock pot and stir to combine, making sure to break up the tomato paste. Place lid on crockpot.
- Cook on high for 2 hours or until warmed through. Stir completely before dishing into individual bowls.
- Serve with a side of cornbread and hot sauce so everyone can make it as spicy as they want.
- Store in an airtight container in refrigerator for up to 1 week.
Notes
- If you want to use fresh sweet potatoes and chicken instead of canned, use 3-4 fresh or frozen chicken breasts and 2 cubed sweet potatoes. Then, cook on low in the crockpot for 6 hours.
- If you like a spicy soup, add 2-3 shakes of your favorite hot sauce.
Nutrition
*Nutrition information is approximate. If you have special dietary needs, please calculate your own nutrition.
Be sure to keep the ingredients in your pantry for this slow cooker chicken sweet potato soup!
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