Slow Cooker Creamy Chicken And Wild Rice Soup

Add this chicken soup recipe to your lineup of slow cooker dinners. Healthy with wild rice, rich, creamy, and a cinch made in your slow cooker. This Slow Cooker Chicken Soup with Wild Rice is hearty and totally amazing with flavor.

Course Soup, Stews and Chilis

Cuisine American

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 6

Total Time 6 30

Servings

Calories 320kcal

Author Lea Ann Brown

Ingredients

1 cup wild rice uncooked, rinsed
1 ½ pounds chicken breast boneless, skinless, cut into bite size pieces
1 cup pancetta rough chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 carrots cleaned and thick sliced
2 stalks celery cleaned and thick sliced
½ onion chopped
1 teaspoon dried rosemary or 1 sprig fresh
1 bay leaf
6 cups chicken broth
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
½ cup butter
½ cup flour
3 cups half and half or milk

Instructions

In a fry pan heat oil over medium heat, add carrots, celery, onion and pancetta and sautee until vegetables are tender and pancetta is mostly cooked.
Place the uncooked wild rice, sauteed vegetables, chicken pieces, chicken broth, poultry seasoning, rosemary, and bay leaf in crockpot. Cover and cook on low for 5 hours. The chicken should be cooked through and the rice should be soft.
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the flour and let the mixture bubble for 1 minute. Slowly whisk in the half and half until a thick, creamy mixture forms.
An hour before the soup is to be done, add the roux to the rice and chicken in the crockpot and stir to combine. Stir, remove bay leaf and stem of rosemary and serve.
Add extra milk or chicken stock if necessary to adjust the consistency.

Notes

Don't skip sauteeing the vegetables. This quick step adds a deeper layer of flavor.

Did you somehow get lumps in the roux sauce? This probably happened because you did't whisk the flour enough before adding the half and half. An easy way to fix this is with an immersion blender or some elbow grease using a whisk. You can also take the back of the spoon and crush the flour lumps against the side of the pan.

This recipe calls for six cups of chicken broth. Three cans of chicken broth is just short of this measurement. Instead of opening another can, just add water to equal 6 cups.

Slow Cooker Basics: This is not a soup you can prepare in the morning and cook all day for a meal when you arrive home from work. Over cooking chicken that long in the slow cooker will compromise the texture. You'll find it to be dry, tough and stringy. Stick to the cooking time instructions.

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