Mississippi Chicken

  4.6 – 28 reviews  

With only four ingredients, Mississippi chicken is easy to prepare and yields juicy, acidic shredded chicken that tastes well in buns or over mashed potatoes or rice. If you’d like, you could prepare this in a slow cooker.

Prep Time: 5 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Additional Time: 5 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Servings: 4

Ingredients

  1. 2 pounds skinless, boneless chicken breasts
  2. 1 (1 ounce) package dry ranch dressing mix (such as Hidden Valley Ranch)
  3. 1 cup sliced and drained pepperoncini peppers
  4. 1/4 cup pepper juice (from jar of pepperoncini peppers)
  5. 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, sliced
  6. 1/2 cup water

Instructions

  1. Gather ingredients. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
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  3. Season chicken with ranch seasoning mix; place in bottom of a medium Dutch oven.
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  5. Add pepperoncini peppers and 1/4 cup reserved pepper juice; top with sliced butter and pour in 1/2 cup water. Cover with a tight fitting lid, and bake in preheated oven until chicken is fork tender, 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).
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  7. Let stand 5 minutes. Shred chicken using two forks.
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  9. Season chicken with ranch seasoning mix and place in the bottom of 6-qt. slow cooker. Add pepperoncini peppers and 1/4 cup reserved pepper juice; top with butter and pour in 1/2 cup of water. Cover, and cook until chicken is fork-tender on LOW for 6 hours or on HIGH for 4 hours. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C). Let stand 5 minutes. Shred chicken using two forks.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 503 kcal
Carbohydrate 6 g
Cholesterol 224 mg
Dietary Fiber 1 g
Protein 72 g
Saturated Fat 9 g
Sodium 1126 mg
Sugars 2 g
Fat 20 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Travis Stone
Added a little extra ranch and made it a little thicker. GREAT over baked potato, mashed potato, rice, and noodles. Can easily turn this into a party dip by adding cream cheese and/or sour cream. Can also add pepper jack or a milder cheese to cut the spicyness. Shred chicken accordingly.
Natalie Turner
What could I use in place of peppercinis?
Harold Simon
I already did this with a whole chicken in my Instant Pot. Had to use a smallish one but it worked well and it was GOOD!
Jason Pena
I didn’t use all the ranch and au jus but almost, other than that I made it just like the recipe. Chicken came out delicious, quick and easy. Thank you.
Lisa Sanders
Just tried this for the first time! And this is one of my husband’s top five chicken dishes!!!
Matthew Stein
We tried it and that was enough. There’s just so many other recipes’ to try. Maybe adding some other ingredients would help.
Steven Ray
Fabulous! Perfectly seasoned, not too spicy, juicy tender and full of flavor. I served it with green beans sautéed with garlic. Easy to make you! If you want it spicier, you can probably add some cherry peppers to the existing recipe. So good!
Alexander Fletcher
I LOVE this! I also put a pound of baby bella mushrooms (sliced) and did it in the crock pot. My son who is a finicky eater LOVED it on a hard roll with smoked gouda cheese. And the Xtra juice was a dipping sauce!
Jeremy Carr
ABSOLUTELY SCRUMPTIOUS! I USED STUFFED CHERRY PEPPERS AS I WASN’T ABLE TO GET OUT FOR PEPPERONCINI’S. ALSO, I USED 1/4 PKG OF THE RANCH MIX AND USED LOW SODIUM CHICKEN STOCK AND SOME OF THE OIL FROM THE PEPPERS. So, I didn’t do the exact recipe. Had to improvise. Put the chix in the slow cooker, with oil from the stuffed peppers. Prob. 3 Tbls. and cover the chix with the unsalted OR low sodium chix broth or stock. Cook slow till fork tender, remove from crock, let cool shred. Add chix back to crock. Chop up as many stuffed peppers to your taste and add. I would slice the peppers thin as some can pack a punch. Add chix back to crock and let the flavors marry. Delish over rice or by itself. I was thinking…you could also replace OR add artichokes to the original recipe. That would be awesome! Same for my recipe. I didn’t have any. I never measure, so I eyeball things. I am still giving the original a 5 because I know that is delish! I LOVE to cook. Much less calories than mine… re: stuffed cherry peppers, Maybe not. Perhaps equal as I didn’t use butter. Thanks so much and when I get to the store, I am going to get pepperoncini, so that I can make the original. P.S. I usually serve the next day with recipes like this as they truly meld together for full effect. Everything is better the second day right? LOL
Jonathan Hobbs
It was really good. What I noticed is how much it improved by the next day. Fantastic leftovers!
Lisa Mason
This looks delicious and I’ll make it as soon as I pick up chicken breasts. Don’t even need to print the recipe. The roast is terrific so, no doubt, this will be, too. From reading other pointed comments on other recipes, I guess I’ll need to change the name of it because I’ll use jarred Hatch green chiles instead of pepperoncini. Kicks it up a notch, from the bland pepperoncinis that are mostly just sour.
Eric Weber II
Simple and delicious! I made this in my Instant Pot pressure cooker and my whole family loved it! The pepperoncinis did not make the recipe too hot, and we don’t really like spicy food. They just added some zest to the flavor.
Joseph Dennis
Very good! May need to add a little salt. Depends on your taste. Lots of runny liquid! I would use a thickener.
Jamie Salazar
This was easy to make on my first try, and everyone loved it. It had SO much flavor and there was just enough kick for the spice lovers. Highly recommend.
Kimberly Jones
So simple and the spice was wonderful!!! My lips are still burning a little I served it over egg noodles and had raw Carrots & celery as a side. Excited to have a way to use up the jar of peppers from Italian beef sandwich recipe. Delicious!!!
Bridget Jones
The aroma erupting from my crockpot made it hard to wait until dinner. This was scrumptious over rice! How can anything this simple be so good!
Eric Lucas
Overall really good, but coming from Louisiana, I want more heat. Added some cayenne pepper and a chopped jalepeno. Don’t understand those who criticize sodium content, etc. It is called “Google” look up DIY recipes to control the sodium, etc. STOP down-rating this recipe b/c of your health issues!
Jacqueline Martin
I really like this a lot. I used less peppers and ranch dressing mix because I didn’t want it to be too spicy or salty. I served it with small dinner rolls. It was delicious and so easy. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Thomas Blankenship
I agree about the saltiness. It comes from the ranch dressing and pepperoncini. The only way to control the salt is to make the 2 condiments yourself to control salt. I made this with beef- awesome with egg noodles- but too salty
David Schneider MD
Made it as written. Hated it
Kevin Bright
Great recipe. I make mine in crockpot and use unsalted butter. I add a packet of onion soup mix. Put the shredded meat on buns with provolone wrap them in foil and heat in the oven until cheese is melted. Wonderful meal!

 

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