Slow Cooker Crack Chicken and Rice – a quick and easy weeknight recipe! Just dump everything in the slow cooker and dinner is done! Only a few simple ingredients – chicken, ranch dressing mix, bacon, cheddar cheese, cream of chicken soup, milk and rice. Can add some mixed veggies too! Everyone cleaned their plates! Leftovers taste great too! YUM! #crockpot #slowcooker #chicken #rice
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I love my slow cooker. especially during the hectic holiday season. I love dumping everything in the slow cooker and coming home to dinner. Who’s with me? This Slow Cooker Crack Chicken & Rice is one of our favorite slow cooker recipes. It has been on repeat at our house lately! Chicken and rice loaded with cheddar, bacon, and ranch. What’s not to like?!?!? All of my favorites in one dish.
How to Make Crack Chicken & Rice in the Crockpot
This Slow Cooker Crack Chicken & Rice is very easy to make. Start by spraying the slow cooker insert with some cooking spray. Place chicken breasts in the bottom of the slow cooker. You will need three or four boneless chicken breasts – just depending on their size. You want about two pounds of chicken. Next mix together the ranch dressing mix, bacon, cream of chicken soup, milk, cheese, and rice. Pour the rice mixture over the chicken. Cover the slow cooker and let it work its magic!
If you feel like the chicken and rice mixture is too thick, feel free to add some chicken broth or extra milk to thin it out. You can also toss in some frozen mixed vegetables. A one-pot meal is hard to beat!
This recipe uses a packet of ranch dressing mix. You are not going to make the dressing. You are only going to use the seasoning packet mix. Feel free to adjust the amount of ranch dressing mix up or down according to your personal preference.
What to Serve With Slow Cooker Crack Chicken & Rice
This Slow Cooker Crack Chicken & Rice is a new favorite at our house. It is super easy to make and tastes great. We like to serve this with some green beans and some rolls. Here are a few of our favorite recipes from the blog that go great with this yummy Slow Cooker Crack Chicken & Rice:
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Slow Cooker Crack Chicken and Rice
Equipment:
Ingredients:
- 2 lbs skinless boneless chicken breasts (about 4 chicken breasts)
- 1 pound bacon cooked and chopped
- 2 (10.5-oz) cans Unsalted Cream of Chicken Soup
- 1 (1-oz) package ranch dressing mix or to taste
- 1¾ cups milk
- 1 cup regular long-grain rice
- 1½ cups shredded cheddar cheese
Instructions:
- Spray the insert of the slow cooker with cooking spray. Place chicken in the bottom.
- Mix together the cream of chicken soup, bacon, ranch dressing mix, half of the cheese, milk, and regular rice. Pour over chicken. Sprinkle remaining cheese on top of rice mixture.
- Cover slow cooker and cook on HIGH for 3 or 4 hours.
- Remove chicken from slow cooker and chop. Place back in the slow cooker and stir to combine.
- If rice mixture is too thick, add water, chicken broth or additional milk to thin out.
Notes:
- Do not cook rice in advance.
- I used Great Value Long-Grain Rice.
- This recipe is formulated to use long-grain white rice. I have not made this with brown rice. Brown rice and white rice are not equal substitutes. Brown rice uses more liquid and takes much longer to cook.
- To avoid sticky rice, rinse your rice before adding it to the slow cooker. Rinsing the rice removes excess start that causes the rice to plump and stick together.
- Do not make the Ranch dressing. You are using only the dry mix.
- Here is our recipe for Homemade Ranch Dressing Mix: https://www.plainchicken.com/homemade-ranch-dressing-mix/
- I used a Hamilton Beach 6-qt Slow Cooker. It took 3 ½ hours.
- Do not open the lid while the rice is cooking. When you lift the lid, the carefully calculated rice-water ratio is thrown off which will result in dry and undercooked rice. Unless you’re adding seasoning or checking how much water remains, leave it alone.
- The rice will not be light and fluffy like plain cooked rice. The rice is soft. This is a casserole. The mixture will be somewhat thick.
- Can use frozen chicken breasts.
- Can substitute turkey bacon.
Steph
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I made this for my husband and I and it did not disappoint! My husband is a picky eater and he loved it, which is always a win! I did season the chicken breasts a tad, with salt, pepper, and garlic powder, prior to pouring the soup mixture on top. I also added a few dashes of RedHot sauce and used fresh Italian parsley on top of the cheese. It took about 3 1/2 hours for mine to cook as well. 🙂
Made this with brown rice and it worked out really well. I find adding an extra 1/4 cup of milk and cooking for the full 4 hours makes this rice fluffy and soft.
Has anyone tried this with pork tenderloin ?
That would work fine.
Crazy picky husband and I LOVE this recipe! I use one can of Cream of chicken and one can of Cheddar Cheese soup. The rest as written. Was just wondering if anyone has successfully adapted this for a pressure cooker/Instapot.
I’m making this right now. It is so easy. I followed your recipe as it is. People have NO common sense on here. Reading all of the comments, come on people read it. Why would you add something that’s not in the recipe? Good grief @plainchicken. I’m sorry we have so many people with no common sense. Thank You for your amazing recipe 😘
Why not add things you like or leave out things you dislike? Recipes are guidelines and made to be adapted for individual tastes. Good base recipe, but nothing wrong with kicking it up to your own taste. Some people like bland and some like spicy. Not a problem to keep in your own lane and enjoy your own way but leave others to theirs.
My son and I loved this. Since it is only us two, it will yield lots of leftovers. I only had Velveeta cheese. So had to use that instead of shredded cheddar, and since we love them, I added a small can of chopped green chilies. Thanks for sharing this!
Can you use minute rice
The recipe clearly says to use long grain rice. Minute rice will not work.
Would adding potatoes change anything?
Probably
You have the patience of Job, with the silly questions. I think some of these people have never even boiled water!
NOTE: If you substitute ingredients, it’s not the same recipe.
Delicious! Use Meijer insta rice and went by the recipe! Shedded my chicken and add bread crumbs on time! Definitely making this again!