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Crock Pot Broccoli Cheese Casserole is a delicious side dish slow cooker recipe perfect for holidays, potlucks or a special weeknight treat for family dinner!
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Recently one of the members of our YouTube community reached out to us (Hi Tammy!!) with one of their tried and true slow cooker recipes and asked if we’d like to give it a try. We LOVE to try new recipes, so we were absolutely thrilled to give it a go and boy, oh boy it did not disappoint! Not only was it quite tasty, it was incredibly easy to throw together. It is definitely going on my list of foods we could take to a pitch-in (what us Hoosiers call a potluck 😉 ).
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Ingredients for Crock Pot Broccoli Cheese Casserole
- 6 oz box cornbread stuffing
- 1.5 cup of water or chicken broth
- 12 oz bag broccoli cuts (we used florets)- thawed
- 10.5 oz can cream of mushroom soup (or substitute)
- 8 oz to 16 oz Velveetacheese- cubed
How to Make Broccoli Cheese Casserole in a Slow Cooker
- Mix together stuffing with water or broth and microwave for 3 minutes.
- Pour into slow cooker and add remaining ingredients and stir well.
- Cover and cook on low for 2-3 hours until cheese melts and broccoli is tender.
Notes on Crock Pot Broccoli Cheese Casserole
- I used a 5 quart round slow cooker for this recipe. Any 4-6 quart recipe should work fine.
- We stayed true to Tammy’s recipe with one small change. My aunt taught me years ago to make my stuffing with chicken broth to add a bit of flavor and from that day forward I have always used broth in my stuffing.
- If you are a fan of crock pot liners, this might be a good recipe to use one on. The cheese will stick a bit. If you don’t like liners, you might try spraying your crock with a little non-stick spray to help with clean up.
- Non-Velveeta fans always ask me about switching out cheddar for Velveeta. I have not tried it with this recipe but my guess is that it would work, the final dish will just have a different consistency.
- As with any of our recipes, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly depending on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish.
- All slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline and shouldalways be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.
Crock Pot Broccoli Cheese Casserole
Crock Pot Broccoli Cheese Casserole is a delicious side dish slow cooker recipe perfect for holidays, potlucks or a special weeknight treat for family dinner!
4.82 from 64 votes
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Course: Side Dish
Prep Time: 3 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 2 hours hours
Total Time: 2 hours hours 3 minutes minutes
Servings: 6 -8
Author: Cris
Ingredients
- 6 oz box cornbread stuffing
- 1.5 cup water (or chicken broth)
- 12 oz bag broccoli cuts (we used florets) thawed
- 10.5 oz can cream of mushroom soup or substitute
- 8 oz to 16 oz Velveeta cheese cubed
Instructions
Mix together stuffing with water or broth and microwave for 3 minutes.
Pour into slow cooker and add remaining ingredients and stir well.
Cover and cook on low for 2-3 hours until cheese melts and broccoli is tender.
Notes
- I used a 5 quart round slow cooker for this recipe. Any 4-6 quart recipe should work fine.
- We stayed true to Tammy’s recipe with one small change. My aunt taught me years ago to make my stuffing with chicken broth to add a bit of flavor and from that day forward I have always used broth in my stuffing.
- If you are a fan of crock pot liners, this might be a good recipe to use one on. The cheese will stick a bit. If you don’t like liners, you might try spraying your crock with a little non-stick spray to help with clean up.
- If you prefer to make your own Cream of Mushroom Soup, this is our substitute recipe.
- Non-Velveeta fans always ask me about switching out cheddar for Velveeta. I have not tried it with this recipe but my guess is that it would work, the final dish will just have a different consistency.
- As with any of our recipes, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly depending on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish.
- All slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline and shouldalways be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.
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Kayla says So do you mix anything else in the stuffing or just the chicken broth?
- Kim Honeycutt says
Sounds good to me. I pinned it to try.
- Lucas says
I see you only say cook the stuffing for 3 minutes. Are you just trying to get the stuffing partially cooked before adding it to the crockpot. My stuffing instructions say cook for 5-6 minutes. Just wanted to make sure before I mess something up!!
- Cris says
Hi Lucas-
It cooks up the rest of the way in the slow cooker. Enjoy!
- Erika says
I love anything with broccoli and stuffing! I’m not a fan of mushrooms, so I was wondering if I could substitute with cream of chicken?
- Cris says
Hi Erika!
You could use cream of chicken or cream of celery. Enjoy!
- lori says
Ok. So I am sad to say that loving so very many of your recipes this one for Broccoli Cheese casserole is not a keeper. Followed recipe just as wrote. After only 2 hours the broccoli was so mushy it was almost nonexistent. The Velveeta cheese which normally melts very well was kind of like little square cubes of half melted goo. I’m wondering if adding the broccoli frozen instead of thawed like stated in recipe and melting Velveeta with a little milk before adding to crock pot would have helped this recipe.
Everyone deserves a bad recipe. Keep the good ones coming. 🙂- Cris says
Hi Lori-I hate to hear that it didn’t turn out for you. We definitely did not have a problem with our broccoli dissolving into the dish, but our cuts of broccoli were quite large. Also, I have never had to pre-melt Velveeta so I am not sure what happened there. We absolutely loved this dish, but we realize not every dish is everyone’s cup of tea. Glad you have found other recipes on the site you enjoy.
- Laurie says
Is the 1.5 cups of water or chicken broth added to the stuffing mix or added to the entire mixture? I guess I’m thinking you are supposed to mix the stuffing mix with liquid plus add an additional 1.5 cups to the recipe. I hope that makes sense. I just don’t want to add too much liquid.
- Cris says
Hi Laurie! The broth/water only goes in the stuffing, not in addition to it. Hope that helps!
- Tammy Dalton says
Cris,
I was thrilled you tried and liked my recipe! I learned something new I never thought about chicken broth for my stuffing but I will from now on. Thank you again for the shout out and all the wonderful recipes. Please keep them coming.
Tammy- Cris says
So glad you sent it our way Tammy! It was VERY good!
- Kathy C. says
Wow…this sounds really good. Will try it soon!- Cris says
Enjoy!!
- Jan says
IS it just me or does anyone think that shredded chicken added to this would make it even more scrumpdileisious!?- Cris says
That sounds like a great idea Jan! - lori says
I was thinking the same thing about chicken. Going to try it tonight and see how it works out.
- Karen says
Exactly what I was thinking, my family does not thing its a meal without meat!
- CATWOMAN67 says
My thoughts EXACTLY!
- Barbara says
Do you mix the veggies and stuffing or is it layered? Sounds like a great side.
- Cris says
Hi Barbara!You mix it all together. Enjoy!
- Angie says
If you baked this in the oven how long would you cook it and what temp? Just a thought ?
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