Slow Cooker Taco Chicken and Rice – only 5 ingredients! SO simple and SO delicious! Kids (and adults) gobble this up! Chicken, taco seasoning, Rotel diced tomatoes and green chiles, cream of chicken soup, and Mexican rice. Top the chicken and rice with your favorite taco toppings. We make this at least once a month. So easy and SO delicious! #slowcooker #crockpot #chicken #chickenandrice #mexican
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This Slow Cooker Taco Chicken & Rice is a weeknight favorite at our house. It is so simple to make with only 5 ingredients! Not only is this recipe easy to make, but it also tastes great! We love it as a comforting main dish or as a burrito bowl with all of our favorite taco toppings. It has become our go-to meal for taco night!
How to Make Chicken & Rice in the Crockpot
As I said, this chicken and rice is super easy to make in the slow cooker. Place some chicken in the slow cooker. Mix together taco seasoning, cream of chicken soup, and a can of diced tomatoes and green chiles. Cover the crockpot and cook. Once the chicken is cooked, shred it with two forks. Stir in some Mexican rice and serve.
Feel free to add in some corn, black beans, pinto beans, onions, or bell peppers. Those all sound super yummy!
What to Serve with Taco Chicken & Rice
This chicken and rice was a HUGE hit at our house. We ate this for dinner and had the leftovers for lunch the next day. SO good! Top the rice with your favorite taco toppings. We like to top it with salsa, cheese, sour cream, and guacamole.
This is a very hearty dish. You don’t need a lot of side dishes to go with it. We usually make some black beans or a salad. Here are a few of our favorite recipes from the blog that go great with this easy crockpot recipe:
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Slow Cooker Taco Chicken and Rice
Equipment:
Ingredients:
- 3 or 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts (2 pounds)
- 1 (1-oz) packet taco seasoning
- 1 (10.5-oz) can Cream of Chicken or Mushroom soup
- 1 (10-oz) can diced tomatoes and green chiles, undrained
- 1 (7.6-oz) box Old El Paso Cheesy Mexican Rice
Instructions:
- Place chicken in the slow cooker. Combine taco seasoning, cream of chicken soup, and undrained tomatoes. Pour over chicken.
- Cover slow cooker and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours or HIGH for 3 to 4 hours.
- Using two forks, shred cooked chicken in the slow cooker.
- Prepare rice according to package directions. Stir into shredded chicken.
Notes:
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Can this be made in the instant pot? and if so, how long?
Thanks
I haven’t made this in the instant pot, so I can not say.
Made this tonight. Made yellow rice and chicken thighs instead of breasts. Also added a can of jalapeno bacon pinto beans. Topped it with lettuce, cheese, salsa (homemade) , and sour cream. SO GOOD!!
Whenever I cook chicken in the crock pot, it always ends up with so much liquid. Any advise to reduce the amount of liquid? I am using fresh chicken breasts. Would frozen breasts reduce the amount of liquid? Otherwise the recipe was good, but the extra liquid threw off the texture for me.
There is really no way to eliminate the liquid. It is released from the chicken as it cooks. You can always drain any excess liquid before adding the rice.
Thanks for the reply. I always am worried about removing some of the flavor if I do that. Maybe I can reduce the liquid in another pan. Thanks!
How would you do this in the instant pot??
Made this. Amazing. Gonna try and add smoked sausage as well and see how it turns out.
Do you think I can do this without the cream soup and use something in place of it? (Lactose intolerant.). Thank you!
Can you make it with white rice?
any cooked rice will work fine
Can you make this with can chicken?
I haven’t tried this with canned chicken, but I would assume any chicken would work just fine in this recipe.
Using ground beef because it’s what I had. Hopefully it still works! Adding corn and black beans. Smells amazing though!
how was it with the ground beef?
This is absolutely delicious! My autistic son, who is quite picky, ate a bowl of it. I’m definitely going to be making it again. I’m glad I found this.
I made this in an instant pot and it was excellent. Even my picky eater went back for seconds. I added all ingredients that you would put in the crockpot to the instant pot and followed the cooking time suggested by instant pot for the amount of chicken. Added the rice after shredding the chicken. Absolutely delicious!! Thank you for this fantastic recipe!
Has anyone done this in a instant pot?
I’m gonna try to make this in the instant pot. I’m not sure if it’ll turn out but I’ll let you know what I did and how it goes!
Would you be able to tell me how I could cook this in a Dutch oven?
My store doesn’t have the cheese Mexican rice? How can I substitute for this?
Any rice you prefer will work just fine. Maybe look for Knorr Mexican or Spanish Rice.
Do you think I can make this with frozen chicken?
Yes
we don’t like cheesy rice. can I used mexcian rice. to subitude the cheesy rice.. can I use Salas into it.to make creamy.
You can make this any way that you prefer.
Do what you want
I used the Cream of Mushroom soup and I used Rice A Roni Creamy Four Cheese rice and turned out amazing! Thank you for the easy and delicious recipe!
This was easy and delicious! Instead of buying uncle Ben’s cheesy Mexican rice I made mine homemade. It was all so good!
Can this dish be frozen ??
Sure
I don’t cook much. Do you add water to the soup as if you were putting it on the stove?
No
Look delicious! Added this to must try list. Did you put the black beans in with the chicken to cook or add them later?
Any suggestion for an instant pot version?
I accidentally added rice to the mixture in crock pot, will it turn out okay?
Did it turn out ok?
I made this a few weeks ago and we loved it! I sat down to review the recipe so I could make it again tonight and realized it was a slow cooker recipe, not an instant pot recipe! Ugh. I completely forgot about that. Would love this so much more if I could make it in an hour! Any suggestions on how to make this into an instant pot recipe?
Since you are cooking the chicken separately anyway, absolutely. You can combine the same ingredients for the chicken into the instantpot. Use your standard cooking time for that amount of chicken. Then just add the cooked rice in at the end.
Can we use uncooked rice and add at the beginning?
What a great idea! But unfortunately, without further recipe testing, I cannot answer with certainty. As always, please use your best judgment regarding substitutions and modifications.
Hi! If I have leftover shredded chicken from a another recipe, can I use that and still cook everything together in the crockpot or instant pot? I’m guessing since everything in it is already cooked, the flavors just need to simmer together? How long would you recommend? Oh & do I add the condensed soup or add water? Ty!!!
This recipe was so simple so easy and so delicious. I cook the chicken in the crockpot with the cream of chicken soup the rotelle and the taco seasoning for about two hours and then I added the rice and finish cooking it all together and it worked out great. I then made some black beans grab some soft tortilla shells And some shredded cheese and we made burritos with this recipe.
Did you cook on high or low when you did this?
Can you put the rice in right at the beginning and let it cook with the chicken?
What a great idea! But unfortunately, without further recipe testing, I cannot answer with certainty. As always, please use your best judgment regarding substitutions and modifications.
You absolutely can!!! However, cook the chicken for about 2 hours first. My husband and I travel for work so I’m constantly tweaking and experimenting with slow cooker recipes. Just be sure to add in the ingredients for the rice as per directions on the back of the box. Happy cooking 🙂
Hi, I was wondering if you cook on low if u add the rice to the slow cooker
Can you put the chicken in frozen?
With the soup and other items?
yes
This was AMAZING.
Any substitute for the rice.? I have not been able to find.Thank you
I would look for Knorr Mexican, Taco or Spanish rice. If you can’t find it, any rice will work in this dish.
Can you freeze this?
This looks delicious! Adding it to my must try list!