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Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Rice Soup
Melissa Hart

Chicken Wild Rice Soup

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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings: 6
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 1 medium yellow onion diced
  • 2 carrots peeled and diced
  • 8 oz cremini mushrooms sliced
  • 3/4 cup pure wild rice rinsed
  • 2 tbsp dry sherry
  • 7 cups low-sodium chicken broth
  • 1/2 tsp dried thyme
  • 3/4 tsp fine salt
  • 1/4 tsp black pepper
  • 1 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs cut into 1-inch pieces

Method
 

  1. Melt butter in large pot over medium. Cook onion, carrots, and mushrooms 8 to 10 minutes until loose mushroom water cooks off.
  2. Stir in wild rice and sherry 1 minute. Add broth, thyme, salt, and pepper; simmer.
  3. Partly cover; gently simmer 25 minutes without hard boiling.
  4. Add chicken; simmer 20 to 25 minutes more until chicken 165°F and rice tender with some grains split. Cook rice another 5 minutes if centers remain hard.
  5. Rest off heat 5 minutes; stir and divide rice, chicken, and broth evenly among bowls.