Crockpot creamy chicken and broccoli over rice; easy, delicious, and ready for dinner when you are.
Usually when I think of crock pot dinners, I want easy. But there are actually a lot of crock pot meals that have many extra steps, besides just throwing your food in the pot. Searing your meat, even broiling it, adding stuff later in the process, etc. Those meals are good too, but sometimes I just want to throw everything in and then come home after work to a delicious meal.
This creamy chicken and broccoli over rice falls in the middle on the crock pot difficulty scale. It’s fairly straight forward, but then the last 30 minutes you need to separately cook the rice, then throw in the broccoli and at the last second at the sour cream. But that’s still pretty straight forward right? Plus its delicious, cheesy, creamy, and your whole family will love it!
Update: 1/17/13 We made this again and I LOVED it just as much as the first time. Now I’m not ashamed that it has become viral over pinterest because it really is a delicious recipe. Hope you enjoy it.
Creamy Chicken and Broccoli over Rice
Taco Soup is one of the easiest soups to make and it is so hearty, filling, and so good! Toss everything in your crockpot and wait.
Ingredients
- 3 chicken breasts
- 1 - 10 oz can cheddar cheese soup
- 1 - 10 oz can cream of chicken soup
- 1 1/2 cups chicken broth
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cajun seasoning
- 1/4 tsp garlic salt
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2 cups broccoli
Instructions
- Put everything except sour cream and broccoli in the crock pot.
- Cook on low for 6 hours or on high for 4.
- Shred the chicken breasts with two forks.
- In a rice cooker (or however you like) cook about 4 cups of rice.
- Meanwhile, add broccoli to the crock pot and stir in.
- Cook for another 30 minutes.
- When done cooking, stir in sour cream with the crock pot mixture.
- Enjoy over a bowl of rice.
This was a perfect meal to warm us up on a chilly autumn day. We had enough creamy chicken mixture that we froze half of it and each enjoyed a BIG bowl.
Serves 4-6
Beth Anne says
So I made this and it was EXCELLENT! It came out thinner than I thought but I did use chicken thighs instead of breasts. But I will be making this again! Thank you!
Aimee Berrett says
So glad you like it Beth! The thighs might me more moist and could have made it thinner, I’m not sure. Hope you’ll try it again soon, I need to make it soon too 😉
Bats in the belfRY (@itsryface) says
Is there a way to adapt this to cook for 9 or 10 hours without overcooking? I work 6am-3pm five days a week (not including commute time) and this would be a GREAT recipe to come home to.
Sarah Jenkins says
Do you have to cook the chicken before putting it in the crock pot?? Want to make this, it sounds delicious!!
Aimee Berrett says
No, you put raw chicken in with all the other ingredients and shred it when its all cooked at step 3. Hope you like it!
Theresa Jean says
I’m making this today and want to use Velveeta instead of the cheese soup. How much do you think I should use?
Aimee Berrett says
I’m sorry I’ve actually never used velveeta, so I don’t know how it would work for this recipe. I believe you usually add milk to the velveeta to make a sauce, so I would do that and then add the same amount of velveeta milk mixture as the recipe calls for with the soup.
Megan says
Thank you for the recipe I am trying this now with frozen chicken and I am using cream of chicken and cream of broccoli hopefully it’ll work out and still be good! I bet it will! I cannot wait to try this
Aimee Berrett says
I make it with frozen chicken a lot of the time and I think the cream of broccoli with the cream of chicken sounds great. Yum!
Jessica says
I made this for my family tonight and they really liked it. Thank you for sharing.
Aimee Berrett says
So glad you all liked it!
Maxine Moates says
What kind of chicken breasts? Bone-in or boneless. Most of the bone-in breasts are so large and take longer to cook. Always afraid they cook too long or not long enough. MM
Aimee Berrett says
I always use boneless chicken breasts! I like them better