Roasted Chicken with Vine Ripened Tomatoes

Published: Wed, 07/16/25

Updated: Thu, 07/17/25

July 16, 2025

Look at this pretty chicken!!

Raise your hands if you are growing tomatoes in the garden...

this is what you need to do with them!

:-)

and then write me a thank you letter because this is the juiciest, most moist (that's hard to say!) chicken you have had, and you made it all by yourself.

in the crockpot.

:-)

Herb Chicken with Vine-Ripened Tomatoes

serves 4 to 6

4 pounds chicken, whole or parts, your choice
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
2 teaspoons herbes de provence (fancy!)
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
8 vine-ripened tomatoes
1/2 cup white wine (you could use apple juice)

The Directions.

Use a 6-quart slow cooker. In a small bowl, combine dry spices and set aside.

Wash chicken, remove neck and giblets, and try to cut off as much skin as you can using poultry shears.

If the chicken is fully thawed, this is much easier to do.

Rub the seasoning mixture on all sides of the bird, inside and out and place into your stoneware. I chose to put the chicken breast-side down, to keep it extra moist.

Wash and cut the stemmy part out of each tomato, and plop on top.

Pour the white wine in, and cover the slow cooker. Cook on low for about 7 hours, or on high for 4-5.

Carefully remove the bird from the pot, and retain the drippings to make a pot of steamed rice.

The Verdict.

I loved this meal. So did Adam.

The chicken was cooked perfectly (I did 2 hours on high, 3 hours on low, and then it sat on warm for another hour) and the tomatoes were amazing.

I am so glad to have made rice out of the pan drippings----it was a delicious side.

This is the type of rice cooker I use -- I found mine inexpensively at Walgreens.

The kids ate their chicken dipped in barbecue sauce, because that's what makes them happy, and weren't overly pleased with the seasoned rice, but did eat it.

#goofballs

Enjoy your day! happy Slow Cooking!!

steph

Cooking from scratch sounds harder than it is. There is truly no easier way to cook homemade meals then to dump it all into your slow cooker, push a button, and walk away.

I know, I know, I'm preaching to the choir here... ;-) If you don't already have a meal plan in place, I've got 14 different ones to choose from, here.

thank you!!

Stephanie O'Dea

1534 Plaza Lane #256, Burlingame California, 94010-3204

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