If you are looking for your next favorite family dinner recipe for fall, this slow cooker chicken and broccoli over rice is it! You can throw it all in the slow cooker and you will have an easy weeknight dinner prepped in no time.
There are a lot of chicken and rice recipes out there, but none that are as tasty as this one! Not only do you get a good protein source, but your carb and veggies too.
Did I mention that even my pickiest of eaters love this recipe? Because they do! So this is a great slow cooker recipe you know everyone will love so there will be no fighting to get everyone to eat it.
When I make this chicken and rice recipe, I also like to serve it with some of our oven roasted vegetables (because you can never have enough veggies!), a quick and easy berry cheesecake fruit salad, and sometimes even some easy homemade rolls.
Ingredients Needed For Our Slow Cooker Chicken and Broccoli Over Rice:
- Skinless boneless chicken breasts
- Cream of cheddar soup
- Cream of chicken soup
- Chicken broth
- Salt
- Garlic salt
- Broccoli florets
- Fat free sour cream
- Cooked brown rice (I like to use the instant rice)
How To Make Our Slow Cooker Chicken and Broccoli Over Rice:
I promised you an easy recipe and it’s true! Start by getting out your slow cooker.
Then put the chicken breasts, a can of cream of cheddar soup, a can of cream of chicken soup, chicken broth, salt, and garlic salt in the slow cooker.
Once it is all in there, turn the slow cooker on low for 6 hours, or on high for 4 hours.
After the time has run out, remove the chicken breasts from the slow cooker and shred the chicken. You can either use two forks or save even more time by shredding it with a hand or stand mixer.
Now is when you can begin cooking the rice you chose and make it according to the directions.
Then return the shredded chicken back to the slow cooker and add in the broccoli as well. Give it all a good stir and place the lid back on and cook everything for another 30 minutes.
When it is done, add in the sour cream and mix it all together.
Then just serve it over a bowl of rice and enjoy!
Related Recipe: Make sure you try our Chicken and Broccoli Alfredo Casserole!
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- Forks or mixer
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Slow Cooker Chicken and Broccoli over Rice Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1 can Cream Of Cheddar Soup
- 1 can Cream Of Chicken Soup
- 1½ cups chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon garlic salt
- 4 cups cooked brown rice, (I used instant rice)
- 2 cups broccoli florets
- ½ cup fat free sour cream
Equipment
Instructions
- Put everything in except sour cream, broccoli. and rice 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 the rice.
- Meanwhile, add broccoli to the crock pot and stir in. Cook for another 30 minutes.
- Stir in sour cream with the crock pot mixture. Enjoy over a bowl of rice.
Notes
- If you are short on time or hands while trying to make dinner, making rice in the Instant Pot is the perfect solution.
Nutrition
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I love the sound of the recipe but I think I am missing something. You have in the directions to put everything in the slow cooker except sour cream, etc. I do not see sour cream in the ingredients. How much do I need? Thanks!
Oh man! Sorry about that! I fixed it for you!
Thanks for pointing this out, Kristy! I noticed this, too. Also, I think it is safe to assume that it is “garlic” salt, not “galic”.
The vast majority of the meat my family eats is boneless, skinless chicken breast meat, and I LOVE broccoli, so I can’t wait to give this a try!
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I am on a gluten-free diet and would probably substitute cream of chicken for GF cream of mushroom. What about cream of cheese, not sure I can find a GF substitute. Do you have suggestions?
Can we use frozen chicken breast? and is the broccoli pre-cooked? 30 min doesn’t seem long enough for a raw vetgetable! Thank you.
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Sounds yummy indeed!
Cream of Cheese soup????
Yep! Some places don’t carry cream of cheese soup so just cheese soup will work also. 🙂
I actually used frozen chicken breasts and it worked just fine. I also used raw broccoli and thought the same thing you did. But believe it or not… it was cooked rather well. Not too hard and not mushy! Thanks for your question!
So I have been searching for you…but you could even try 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese and 1/2 cup GF cream of mushroom soup. Sorry I don’t have any more solutions! Hope this helps!
If I use frozen broccoli when should I add to crock pot?
Made this tonight, and it is awesome! 🙂 I don’t usually like broccoli, but this makes it taste really good.
I just realized you got this recipe from me and that makes me so happy. I’m making this again for dinner tonight and so excited to eat it. Thanks for sharing too.
I made this tonight and we LOVE it…. as in, my son ate it all and then asked for SECONDS! That never happens. Thanks ladies!
This is in my crock pot right now! Thanks for another great recipe!
I had the same issue with the cream of cheese soup. Couldn’t find it at the commissary, so I settled for regular old cheese soup. I’m making this on Saturday and I can’t wait to see how it turns out! I love broccoli and cheese and rice and chicken, and so does my husband, so I can’t see anything but good reviews. Thanks!
Broccoli is the one vegetable that cooks rather quickly and you don’t want to overcook because, as you said, it can get mushy, and to be honest not too tasty. So this makes total sense. Plan to give it a try because all of the ingredients are favourites in my family.
Hi!
Love the sounds of this recipe! I am wondering if you have ever frozen this meal? I think it would be good to separate and freeze in containers and have for dinners.
Thanks!
Hi Chelsea, we have not frozen this meal but the chicken broccoli part should freeze just fine. Not quite so sure about how well the rice would freeze though. Hope this helps!
Have made this 3 times now and always gets eaten with no left overs. Thanks for recipe
In the webpage directions you guide people to put the rice in with the raw chicken and to cook it for several hours instead of waiting to cook it separately. Just wanted to let you know so you can fix that in case people don’t read the printable recipe.
Text of recipe says to add rice to the slow cooker at the beginning. The recipe card says cook the rice separately and top it with the broccoli chicken. Which is it?
Great catch! When in doubt, always go by the recipe card. I will change the recipe text to reflect the correct one. Where it’s served over rice, I’m pretty confident it doesn’t go in the slow cooker.
What’s the serving size?
The serving size would be 1/6 of the total recipe. The exact amount will depend on the size of chicken breasts you use