Chicken and Rice-Slow Cooker
Chicken and Rice-Slow Cooker

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chicken and rice-slow cooker. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Chicken and Rice-Slow Cooker is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Chicken and Rice-Slow Cooker is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken and rice-slow cooker using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken and Rice-Slow Cooker:
  1. Prepare 2 large chicken breasts
  2. Take 1 large can cream of chicken herb
  3. Make ready 1 can cream of mushroom with roasted garlic (Campbell's brand)
  4. Get 1/2 block cream cheese. (Herb cream cheese if you can find) but plain is good to.
  5. Prepare 1 Onion minced
  6. Prepare Celery flakes
  7. Get Parsley flakes
  8. Prepare 1/2 Pack Italian seasoning or ranch or a mix of both
  9. Take 1 small can chicken broth/stock
  10. Prepare Seasonings: garlic powder, onion powder, Italian, salt and cracked pepper or whatever seasonings you like. I added several others myself.
Steps to make Chicken and Rice-Slow Cooker:
  1. Add chicken breast, can broth/stock, minced onions and Italian seasoning or ranch seasoning or both, and some of your other favorite seasonings to slow cooker on high.
  2. Let this cook for a couple of hours on high.
  3. Once chicken is halfway done, shred or break in cubes with fork and leave in slow cooker. Or you can leave whole.
  4. Then add rest of ingredients, and stir. (Cream of chicken, cream of mushroom with roasted garlic, cream cheese, celery flakes, some parsley and other seasonings you like. Let cook about another hour or so, until mixture becomes creamy.
  5. You can add the chicken gravy mixture on top of steamed/cooked rice in plate, or mix the cooked rice in with it in slow cooker. I used my rice cooker, and added chicken broth mixed with a little water to steam it.

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