
If you don't have access to Uncle Ben's, you can combine chicken bouillon powder, parsley flakes, ground cumin, black pepper, garlic powder, ground ginger, onion powder, onion flakes, ground turmeric, and salt to make the seasoning blend. Make sure to keep cooking the rice until it's done. If you're worried about drying out the chicken, check its temperature about 4 hours in and stop cooking once you see it's reached 165 degrees F. Quick and simple, this slow cooker chicken and rice recipe is perfect for a busy weekday! 💭 Top Tips So delicious and easy!) 🥘 Ingredients Needed (Pssst.if you want another chicken dish that's bursting with flavor, try this Lemon Feta Cheese Chicken with optional Mediterranean salsa. Plus, it is a family-pleaser, with even my picky eater rating it as a TOTAL YUM! And if you're looking for easy, cheap chicken recipes, then this easy chicken and rice recipe is right up your alley. This recipe fits all the requirements in my book to be labeled EASIEST. The EASIEST slow cooker meals are the ones where you just toss a few ingredients in the crock pot, mix, and let it go all day, with no chopping, no pre-cooking anything, and very little measuring. 👩🏻🍳 Why You'll Love Slow Cooker Chicken and Rice 👩🏻🍳 Why You'll Love Slow Cooker Chicken and Rice. If necessary, use 2 smaller pans.Your whole family will enjoy this nutritional and delicious chicken and rice recipe! Jump to: I use a wide pan to accommodate dumplings. NO PEEKING! The built-up steam cooks the dumplings, allowing them to rise. Put lid on and simmer 12-15 minutes, or until largest dumpling is done. Leave space in between since dumplings double or triple their size as they steam. Drop dumplings carefully on top of simmering broth. Spray a small ice cream scoop or tablespoon with cooking spray. Pour into well and mix quickly with a fork. Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, pepper, garlic powder and parsley together.Ĭut butter in with fork until flour resembles coarse crumbs. IngredientsĨ or so cups chicken broth augmented with 2 cloves peeled, smashed garlic if canned brothġ/2 cup milk, or bit more if needed Instructionsīring broth and garlic, if using, to a boil. The dumplings thicken the broth as they cook. If broth is canned, smash a couple cloves of immune-boosting garlic and add them to it as it heats up. I’ll put the tapioca pudding on my site for you in case you want to make that, as well. I think you’ll be surprised at how well this doable recipe turns out. If you have someone in your life who needs a bit of a boost and some old fashioned TLC, make a batch of dumplings. Regardless of where you live, seems like the flu is on the rise. Hopefully, that will get him through the next few days. I took the dumplings along with some homemade tapioca pudding (a family staple when someone is sick) to Ray’s house this evening. The dumplings? Because they cook by steam in broth, they’re soft enough to eat and easy to digest. The bonus is it may help clear nasal congestion, too. Chicken broth is nourishing and hydrating. I decided to swap out stew for a flavorful, simple chicken broth with drop dumplings.
He’s homebound, though, and his appetite, like most folks with flu, isn’t good. Ray likes simple food so I was going to make chicken stew and dumplings and a green salad. He was supposed to come over for dinner and we’ve had to cancel twice.
Our friend, Ray, who blesses us each year with two truckloads of “black gold” (horse manure), has been under the weather with the flu.