Crock Pot Brazilian Saffron Chicken And Rice Food

SLOW COOKER CHEESY CHICKEN AND RICE

Steps:

• Place chicken in the bottom of a slow cooker. Scatter onion over the top. Spoon soup over that. Cover and cook on Low for 7 to 8 hours or on High for 3 to 4 hours.
• When chicken is almost finished cooking, combine water, rice mix, and butter in a 2-quart saucepan until well blended. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and let simmer until rice is tender, about 25 minutes.
• Stir cooked rice, corn, and Cheddar cheese into the slow cooker a few minutes before serving. Serve hot.

SLOW COOKER MEXICAN CHICKEN AND RICE

Steps:

• Pour the chicken stock into a slow cooker, and stir in the rice, onion, salsa, green chilies, and half the taco seasoning. Rub the remaining taco seasoning over the chicken breasts, and place into the cooker. Place the lid on the cooker, and set to high setting.
• Cook until the rice is thickened and most of the liquid has been absorbed, about 3 hours. About 20 minutes before serving time, turn the cooker to warm setting. Remove the chicken breasts, and slice them. Stir the chicken and the black beans into the slow cooker. Return lid to cooker, allow the beans to heat, and serve.

CROCK POT BRAZILIAN SAFFRON CHICKEN AND RICE

Steps:

• Sprinkle chicken with garlic salt.
• Heat oil in 12 inch skillet over medium-high heat.
• Add chicken and cook until brown on all sides; drain.
• Place chicken in 4 quart slow cooker.
• Top with ham, onion, and bell pepper. Add broth.
• Cover and cook on Low 5 to 6 hours until juice of chicken is no longer pink when centers of thickest pieces are cut.
• Remove chicken from crock pot. Stir rice mix into mixture in crock pot, add chicken.
• Cover and cook on High about 1 hour or until rice is tender.
• Serve chicken and rice sprinkled with olives.

CROCK POT ARROZ CON POLLO (SPANISH CHICKEN WITH RICE)

Steps:

• In a non-stick skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat.
• Add chicken, in batches, and brown lightly on all sides.
• Transfer to slow cooker stoneware.
• Reduce heat to medium.
• Add onions and cook, stirring, until softened.
• Add garlic, salt and pepper and cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
• Add rice and stir until grains are well coated with mixture.
• Stir in saffron, tomatoes and chicken stock.
• Transfer to slow cooker stoneware and stir to combine with chicken.
• Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours or on HIGH for 3 to 4 hours, until juice run clear when chicken is pierced with a fork.
• Stir in green pepper and peas, cover and cook on HIGH for 20 minutes, until vegetables are heated through.
• Garnish with olives, if using, and pass hot pepper sauce, if using.
• TIP: If you are in a hurry, skip browning the chicken.
• Just make sure that all the skin is removed; otherwise the dish will be too fatty.
• *Saffron is a pungent, bittersweet spice garnered from a particular kind of crocus.
• Buy saffron in threads, not powder, preferably from a reputable purveyor.
• Turmeric can be used to convey the saffron color in a dish, but it will not replicate the unique and haunting flavour of the original.
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