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Slow-Cooker Crockpot Southwestern Chicken and Rice is a quick and easy Mexican Crockpot recipe with chicken, rice, tomato and creamy cheese. Perfect healthy recipe for easy weeknight dinners, meal prep, and meal planning. This is a healthy version with brown rice. Feel free to use white rice or whatever you prefer.
Slow-Cooker Southwestern Chicken and Brown Rice is the perfect cure for a busy lifestyle. I feel like I’m always in a hurry. I’m always pressed for time and running to accomplish my next “to-do.” I rarely skip out on my meal prep. Slow-cooker recipes often save me! It is so simple to just pile your ingredients in a pot, set the timer, and come back later when you have time.
Calories: 371 Fat: 7G Net Carbs: 42G Protein: 30G
I am obsessed with slow-cooker liners! These liners from Amazon really save so much time. Less cleaning is key!
If I am meal prepping, I usually load all of the ingredients into the slow-cooker early on Sunday morning.
By that evening I have returned to this! From here, I can load it up into portioned meal prep containers for the week. If I prep this meal on a weekday, I add everything to the pot before work. Then I come home to the perfect weeknight meal!
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Slow-Cooker Crockpot Southwestern Chicken and Rice
Ingredients
- 8 oz chicken breast
- 8 oz tomato sauce canned
- 1/2 green bell pepper chopped
- 1 cup red onion chopped
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 1 cup brown long-grain rice
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 2 cups water
- 1 can Rotel drained
- 1 chicken bouillon cube
- 1 cup low-fat shredded Mexican cheese
- 1 can reduced-fat sodium black beans drained
- 1/2 can whole kernel corn drained
- 3/4 teaspoon chili powder seasoning
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Line a crockpot with a crockpot liner.
- Add all of the ingredients, except the cheese, to the crockpot and stir.
- Cover and allow it to cook for 4 and 1/2 hours on high or 8 hours on low.
- Remove the chicken from the pot and shred. Add the chicken and shredded cheese to the pot and stir.
- Serve!
Marjie Mare
This is really good and such a time savior. I do need to get myself one of those crock pots.
Fashion Wanderer
look delicious! can’t wait to prepare it for myself!
Glenda
Now this is my type of meal! I love how easy it is to make and it is healthy. Thank you for the recipe!
Tonya
ARE YOU SERIOUS with all of that cheesy goodness! Oh my god, I am not supposed to eat after 10pm but this post has me feeling SO hungry. Hm…perhaps dinner for tomorrow?
Stephanie
This sounds absolutely delicious! I love slow-cooker meals for those busy days that we all have! I am going to have to try this one soon.
Angela Tolsma
I had no idea there was crockpot liners! Definitely something I will need to find when I invest again in a crockpot! This meal looks so good, I think my husband would love it.
Destany
I love making dinner with my slow cooker, and ever since I discovered liners, it’s been heaven! So simple.
Danielle Faith
Slow cookers are the best thing ever. My boyfriend has one and he makes the best food things with it!
Sarah
Wow! I love this recipe. It is one of the recipes that you don’t even think of doing in the slow cooker. Lately recipe with a slower cooker is a huge win for me!
Jazmin Williams
I love our slowcooker, I can’t recommend one enough to people. This looks like such a delicious recipe!
Kim
This recipe looks super yummy! I need to make this for my family!
Melissa
I love slow cooker recipes. It’s something I totally need for my anything but slow life! This recipe looks really delicious!
Ananda
I love slow cooker one-pot meals! this looks so yummy, brown rice is our fav to use!
Prajakta Sharma
I am a vegetarian but my cousin loved your recipe. He loves chicken and will be trying it next weekend.
Kris
Do you drain the corn and beans before adding?
staysnatched
Hi there! Yes.
Amanda Brown
Really great recipe, tried it out today and it taste great but I would recommend cooking rice separately because our did not cook through even after 4 hours on high.