Name: Crock Pot Chicken and Rice
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 8 h
Total time: 8 h 5 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2-3 chicken breasts; 3 cups water; 1 can cream of mushroom soup; 1 tsp. garlic powder; 1 tsp. onion powder; 1 stick butter; salt and pepper to taste; 2 cups rice (plain or Spanish); 1-2 cups water for rice at the end of the recipe; 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

Crock Pot Chicken and Rice is one of the easiest meals to make. It’s filling, will feed the entire family, and tastes great. You can even throw the chicken in the Crock Pot frozen and it will be cooked by the time you get home in the evening. It’s an easy chicken dinner recipe to make.

Crock Pot Chicken and Rice Recipe

I love easy meals, and this is one of those super easy slow cooker chicken recipes. I can’t stress enough just how simple it is to make this meal for your family.

We sometimes go non-stop around here and it’s nice to come home after driving all over creation to a meal that is pretty much done. Oh, happy day.

I tend to cook a lot of chicken meals around here, and my husband gets kind of tired of chicken on occasion, so I try to mix it up a little bit, all while making my life easier.

This doesn’t start out looking super appetizing, but most Crock Pot meals don’t. You just have to trust going in that when it’s done, it’s delicious.

Items you will need to make this meal:

Crock Pot
Chicken
Rice (white, brown, or Spanish)
Cream of Mushroom Soup
Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Salt and Pepper
Garlic and onion powder
Butter
Water

All you need to do is throw in the chicken breasts, water, butter, cream of mushroom soup, garlic powder, and onion powder. Stir it up and put the lid on, and bam, you’re done! All you gotta do is wait for it to cook.

On a side note, I love the word butter. Doesn’t it make you happy? You know food is going to taste really great if you’ve added something buttery.

It’s going to be hard to wait those 6-8 hours until it’s done. Especially when the scent starts filling the house.

How To Make Crock Pot Chicken and Rice

Add the water, chicken, butter, soup, and seasonings, salt and pepper to the Crock Pot.
Cover and cook on low for 6 hours (8 hours if the chicken is frozen).
After the cooking time, shred the chicken. Add the rice.
Pour one to two cups over the rice to make sure it is covered.
Cook for half an hour to one hour or until the rice is done.
Add the shredded cheese, stir, and serve.

This meal will feed six people and fill them up. If you’d like to add more chicken you can do that. I would add a little more rice at the end, as well.

Recipe and printable instructions at the bottom of the post.

Add the water, chicken, butter, cream of mushroom soup, seasonings, salt, and pepper to the Crock Pot.

Set your Crock Pot for 6 hours on medium, or 8 hours on low. I am of the belief that if you set it for longer, it’s going to be a little more tender, whether it’s beef or chicken.

Crock Pot Chicken and Rice is an easy meal to cook in the Crock Pot, I love the quick start and delicious meal.

Once everything cooks shred the chicken inside of the Crock Pot. I usually use two forks to shred and that does the trick. Give everything a good stir again.

Next, add the rice. I put in 2 cups of rice. If you’ve added more than 2 chicken breasts, you need to add more rice. But, this amount feeds me, my husband, and my two teenage boys.

I bought my rice at Aldi’s. They have regular sized bags of rice, but they also sell these ginormous bags of rice that could literally feed the entire neighborhood.

Once you add the dry rice, if needed, pour the water over it (try to cover all of the rice with water, if you can), close the lid, and check back in about 1/2 hour to see how it’s doing. If it’s still a little crunchy, just add more water.

I’ve added Spanish rice to this Crock Pot chicken and rice recipe to give it a different flavor. If you add the Spanish rice, I would leave out the garlic and onion seasonings.

Once the rice cooks, give everything a good stir. Mmm…it looks so delicious! Don’t you wish your fork would fit through the screen?

Finally, add the cheese. I didn’t have a ton left, so I added what I had. The more cheese, the merrier. I could sit and eat a block of cheese. I love the stuff, and you can never put enough on for me.

Give everything a good stir. Since it’s hot, the cheese will melt pretty fast. It’s ready to serve! See how easy that was? I love meals that are this easy and will feed lots of people and make their tummies super happy.

This is an easy meal, but because of the time it takes to cook it, not a quick one. And, if you can get your chicken at a discount, this meal is under $10, and I like that a lot.