Slow Cooker Chicken Wild Rice Soup (Healthy)
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A hearty soup for healthy eating through the winter, Slow Cooker Chicken Wild Rice Soup!
Still craving naughty holiday dishes, yet dead set on cleaning up your diet?
I feel you.
January is always a needed, yet slightly unpleasant, jolt to my body and routine.
I’m trying to ease myself into healthy eating this year with warm filling dishes that make me feel like I’m enjoying classic comfort food.
Tricky, right?
My simple Slow Cooker Chicken Wild Rice Soup is a stellar recipe for this sort of mental trickery.
It’s rich and flavorful, loaded with veggies, rustic wild rice, and shredded chicken, and makes your tummy warm and happy!
Not only that, Slow Cooker Chicken Wild Rice Soup is low in fat, dairy free, gluten free, and packed with vitamins and nutrients.
Not too shabby for a rich hearty slow cooker meal!
The key to making Healthy Slow Cooker Chicken Wild Rice Soup so appealing, is to add lots of herbs and veggies for flavor, and to not over cook the rice.
All slow cookers are slightly different. The first time you make this, keep an eye on your settings, time, and the rice. Yours may take as little as 3 hours to cook through, but might take much longer.
Adding a slurry of white wine and flour (or potato starch for gluten free) helps thicken the soup without additional fatty ingredients.
If you would like to eliminate the wine (although it adds a lot of flavor) substitute extra chicken broth instead.
Our Healthy Slow Cooker Chicken Wild Rice Soup is keeping us on the straight and narrow this January.
I promise, your family will love this Slow Cooker Chicken Wild Rice Soup recipe. In fact, I bet they won’t even notice it’s good for them.
My kids gobbled it down two days in a row.
Slow Cooker Chicken Wild Rice Soup
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast
- 1 large onions, peeled and chopped
- 1 cup chopped celery, heaping
- 1 cup chopped carrots, heaping
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 pound button mushrooms, halved
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 cup dried wild rice
- 2 quarts chicken broth
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour or potato starch for gluten free version
- 3/4 cup white wine
- 1/3 cup chopped parsley
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- Preheat a skillet to medium heat, and add the olive oil. Once hot, sauté the chopped onions, celery, carrots, and garlic to soften, 3-5 minutes. Then scoop them into the crock of a large slow cooker.
- Add the chicken breasts, mushrooms, thyme, wild rice, chicken broth, 1 tablespoon sea salt and 1 teaspoon ground pepper. Cover and set to high for 3-4 hours.
- 30-60 minutes before serving: Remove the cooked chicken breasts. Shred them with a fork and add the shredded meat back to the crock. Make a slurry by mixing the flour (or potato starch) with the white wine. Mix until smooth. Then stir into the soup. Stir in the parsley. Then cover and allow the soup to simmer until the base is thick. Serve warm!
Notes
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Wow, this is looking so delicious and wonderful recipe article. Thank you for sharing.
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Hi Sommer! We are gluten free, but I only have corn starch available at the moment. Do you have any suggestions on substituting it in for the potato starch?
Hi Marissa,
It should work just fine. Start with half the amount of potato starch and add more as needed.
Delicious and easy; decreased salt amount to 1 tsp and pepper to 1/2 tsp.
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Hi!This recipe absolutely makes my mouth water,but I don’t have a slow cooker.Can this be done without the cooker?And if so,could you tell me how?I’m not very good with soups,hahaha.
Hi Christine! Just cook it on the stove top, over low heat, with a heavy lid. You can saute the veggies in the same pot. The cook time on step 2 will be more like an hour.
Thank you so much!I will probably try this out today or tomorrow.Can’t wait for it!Thank you so much again!
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I’m making this right now. Can’t WAIT for dinnertime!
Hearty AND healthy?! The perfect soup recipe!!
There are few things more comforting than a bowl of chicken soup. It’s one of the few things I crave from my meat-eating days. I can smell its wonderful aroma through the screen!
Oh YUM! looks delicious Sommer!
Do you think I could substitute brown or aborio rice? (Or another grain?) My mom would love this recipe but can’t handle wild rice (makes her sick for some reason)
Hi Anne! Yes, I think either of those would work fine. :)
Love that you made this in the slow cooker!
I love when the slow cooker can do all the work for me!
Sommer, this looks delicious! BUT I can’t handle mushrooms. What would you suggest as a substitute?
Hi Kristin! Really, you can add any vegetable you prefer, or just throw in extra carrots and celery. :)
Going to need a big bowl of this!!
Ahh, this looks so warm and delicious!!
Looks perfectly healthy and delicious!!!