Slow Cooker Chicken and Rice Soup

Slow Cooker Chicken and Rice Soup

Slow cooker chicken and rice soup with brown rice and chicken breasts is comforting and warm with no extra added fat. With the use of lemon extract, it can be made from pantry ingredients any time of year.

Ingredients

  • 3 chicken breasts, boneless and skinless
  • 1 teaspoon Nielsen-Massey Pure Lemon Extract 
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  • 1 cup brown rice uncooked
  • 1/2 yellow onion chopped
  • 5 carrots chopped
  • 4 celery stalks chopped
  • 6 garlic cloves minced
  • 2 teaspoons Kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 1 teaspoon dried tarragon
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 10 cups chicken broth
  • parsley for garnish (optional)

Directions

Put all the ingredients into the slow cooker and cook on low for 4 hours.

If your slow cooker is on the hotter side for most recipes, cook for 3 hours to avoid mushy rice or add the rice after an hour of cooking.

With a fork and knife shred/cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces and put back in the soup.

Garnish with parsley.

Notes:

Recipe by Dinner then Dessert.

  • 3 chicken breasts, boneless and skinless
  • 1 teaspoon Nielsen-Massey Pure Lemon Extract 
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  • 190 g brown rice uncooked
  • 1/2 yellow onion chopped
  • 5 carrots chopped
  • 4 celery stalks chopped
  • 6 garlic cloves minced
  • 2 teaspoons Kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 1 teaspoon dried tarragon
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2370 ml chicken broth
  • parsley for garnish (optional)

Directions

Put all the ingredients into the slow cooker and cook on low for 4 hours.

If your slow cooker is on the hotter side for most recipes, cook for 3 hours to avoid mushy rice or add the rice after an hour of cooking.

With a fork and knife shred/cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces and put back in the soup.

Garnish with parsley.

Notes:

Recipe by Dinner then Dessert.

  • Nielsen-Massey time icon

    10 minprep

  • Nielsen-Massey time icon

    3 hrcook

  • Nielsen-Massey yield icon

    8servings

This Recipe Uses

Pure Lemon Extract 4oz

Pure Lemon Extract

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