Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Rice
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This Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Rice recipe combines tender chicken breasts, rich cream of mushroom soup, and sweet onions for a hearty, flavorful dish that requires minimal effort. Simply toss everything into the slow cooker, and by dinnertime, you’ll have a comforting, delicious meal ready to enjoy.
Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Rice is a simple, comforting dish that’s perfect for busy days. Using just a four ingredients, this recipe allows you to throw everything into your slow cooker and let it do the work. The tender chicken breasts are combined with the earthy flavor of long grain wild rice, and everything is brought together with rich cream of mushroom soup. Add chopped onions for a touch of sweetness and depth of flavor. As it slow cooks, the flavors meld together, creating a hearty meal that requires minimal prep but delivers maximum taste.
The best part of this recipe is its flexibility. Serve this creamy chicken and rice dish on its own for a complete meal, or pair it with a crisp green salad, your favorite steamed veggies or some crusty bread for a satisfying dinner. Whether you’re cooking for your family or meal prepping for the week, this slow cooker recipe is a go-to for effortless comfort food.
What You’ll Need to Make Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Rice
Ingredients
- chicken breasts
- cream of mushroom soup
- cnion
- Uncle Ben’s long grain and wild rice with seasonings
How to Make Slow Cooker Chicken and Rice
Place your chicken breasts in the bottom of a slow cooker.
Chop onions and sprinkle over chicken breasts.
Cover chicken and onions with the cream of mushroom soup.
Cook on low for 7 – 8 hours, or high for 4-5 hours. I prefer to cook on low, it just makes the chicken fall apart!
Prepare the long grain and wild rice according to the package directions (you could even do this the night before and store in the fridge). At the end of cooking time, add the cooked rice to the slow cooker.
Gentry stir rice into with the chicken and sauce.
No one will know you only needed 4 ingredients and 5 minutes in the morning to put this easy delicious meal together!
Serve with your favorite veggies and bread on the side!
Store Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Riceleftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. Simply reheat in the microwave. You can also freeze leftovers for up to 3 months. Thaw overnight in the fridge before reheating in the microwave.
Tips for Making Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Rice
- If you don’t have skinless boneless chicken breasts, you can use bone-in chicken and it will be delicious. You could also use chicken tenders or boneless skinless chicken thighs! You can use fresh or frozen chicken as well. They both work perfectly!
- Uncle Ben’s long grain and wild rice is really the best for this recipe. Stick with the name brand on this one because. The seasoning packet is part of what makes this dish so delicious!
- For different flavors or tastes, use any condensed cream of [whatever] soup!
- If you pre-made the rice and stored in the fridge, let it warm up in the slow cooker for about ten minutes before serving or gently microwave before adding to the slow cooker.
- While this is a great main dish as is, serve with your favorite vegetable side dish or salad, like zucchini and squash, summer corn salad, tomatoes and okra, or fresh green beans.
- If you’d like to make this a one-dish wonder, stir your favorite vegetables into the crock pot in the last hour of cooking. A few options are: chopped mushrooms, diced zucchini, sliced carrots, or frozen peas.
Other Slow Cooker Recipes You’ll Love
- Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings
- Slow Cooker Cranberry Chicken
- Easy Crock Pot Chicken Lettuce Wraps
- Crockpot Fiesta Chicken and Rice
- Slow Cooker Angel Chicken
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts can use fewer and bone-in or boneless
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup
- 1 medium chopped onion
- 1 box Uncle Ben's long grain and wild rice with seasonings
Instructions
- Place chicken in the bottom of a slow cooker. Sprinkle chopped onion over the top and then add the cream of mushroom soup mixture. Cover and slow cook on low for 7 to 8 hours.4 chicken breasts, 1 can cream of mushroom soup, 1 medium chopped onion
- Cook rice according to package directions*. Before serving, stir the cooked rice into the slow cooker and serve hot.1 box Uncle Ben's long grain and wild rice with seasonings
Hey Christy, I’m sittin’ down eating this dish now, and it’s awesome!!! Gonna make this more often! Thank you so much! 🙂
I made this tonight for dinner. O M Gosh!! There are just no words for how delicious this is!! My husband got the pouch of Uncle Ben’s instead of the box, but even w/ that it was still really good. I’m going to have to double this next time, there are not enough leftovers for all of us tomorrow, I think if I can hide the tupperware filled chicken & rice in the bottom drawer, I should be fine to have it all to myself tomorrow!! I used 5 breasts, cooked for 8 hours, chicken was a little dry, I’ll prob only cook for 7 next time. Thanks for a wonderful, super easy, DELICIOUS family recipe!!
If you live where there are Harris Teeter and Food Lion grocery stores, the house brands of the long grain and wild rice are excellent. I have made a similar recipe using them and can’t tell the difference.
Made this for supper last night mainly because my whole family was coming home, but hours apart….easy to hold on warm! I doubled it for all 5 of us- 3 boys in the fam. I used one can of C or Chicken and one of C of Mushroom because that is what I had on hand. Oh my it was wonderful! Half of the fun was the delicious smell when I entered my house after work! Another 5 star recipe Christy! Thanks
We make this often at our house but either on the stove or in the oven. I’ll have to try it in the slowcooker next time, much less mess to clean up! We add a little red pepper to it for a nice little punch of heat.
Hi Christy This sounds so simple, but I wonder if it will be just as good with another cream soup such as chicken or celery? I just do not like mushroom. I know its in my head, but gross! HAHA Let me know or if someone else has tried would love to know Have a great day and I love all your recipes and always share them with friends and family.
I used cream of chicken, Brenda. I don’t like the cream of mushroom either! And, if you read my post above, this is another keeper for our recipe files! 🙂
Thanks so much Cathy I am going to try it tomorrow night. I just love crock pot dinners because of my work schedule Kinda fix it and go~!!!
Brenda, I used cream of celery one time and LOVED it. I was out of mushroom soup and did not want to make a trip to the store just to buy one item…….my family actually liked it better!!! It is a GREAT and EASY recipe!!
I make a chicken and wild rice casserole that has about the same ingredients (cream of chicken and sour cream) if this tast anything like the casserole then I am going to be a happy girl. 🙂