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 do NOT cook, but figured I’d give this a try… SUCCESS!! My husband even went back for seconds! For milk, I used 1 cup almond milk & 3/4 cup 2% milk. Also used jasmine rice instead of regular because that’s all I could find. YUMMY!!! Will definitely be doing this more often.
Woohoo!!! I’m thrilled it turned out good for you. Thank you for sharing your substitutions. I’m sure it will help other readers out.
Hey I’m about to make this – do I actually make the cream of chicken the way the can describes? Mine say to add milk and water, or should I just add to the crockpot as a concentrate mix?
just use the can of soup by its self.
Thank you!
How long in a pressure cooker?
Can you use brown rice instead of white rice?
You will need to adjust the cooking time and maybe the liquid. Brown rice and white rice do not cook the same.
Has anyone tried adding broccoli to this?? Curious if I would add veggies in the beginning or wait and add towards the end so they don’t get too mushy…
can you make it without bacon? I want to make this ,but don’t have any bacon.
sure
I made this recipe with brown rice not knowing that brown rice took longer to cook. It cooked on high for 6 hours, worth it. It came out delicious. I had to add one extra cup of milk so it wouldn’t be so thick.
Would it be possible to cut the recipe in half? What changes would I have to make other that the amount of ingredients?
That is the only thing I would do. I may cook quicker if you use a large slow cooker.
Do you use the ranch dressing dry or mix with milk and mayo?
dry
Cooking for 3.5 hours and the rice is still hard! I used brown rice that shouldn’t change anything should it?
It would change everything. White rice and brown rice do not cook the same.
Mine was too soupy..I guess from not enough chicken? Any ideas?
Maybe cook it a little longer? I haven’t had any issues with this dish, so that is my best guess.
You mention water in the directions but I don’t see where/when you add water??
I say if the cooked rice/casserole is too thick to add water to thin it out.
Good morning, as the recipe is can you tell me about how many people it will serve? Not sure if I need to double … thank you
Just made this the other day. Very good. We
I was planning to make this tomorrow for dinner. Can I use some chicken that I already cooked and shredded tonight? I read the recipe wrong!
I’m sure that will work fine. You may need to add a little extra liquid to make up for the missing liquid the cooked chicken makes.
All I have is instant rice. Has anyone used this instead? If not do you think it would be ok to put everything in the crockpot except for the rice, then cook the instant rice on the stove top and then add it at the very end?
You would also need to adjust the liquid content if you use already cooked rice.
I have chicken thighs, would I need to cook it longer?
I have only made this as written. You will need to check the chicken to ensure it is cooked to 165ºF before eating.
Do u have to use ranch packs. My husband do not like ranch. Just asking