Slow Cooker Spanish Rice Recipe

Slow Cooker Spanish Rice Recipe is a great side dish or can be a whole meal!

I usually add sauteed ground beef, sauteed chicken, or leftover pork tenderloin cubes to the slow cooker or a whole meal.

Beef, peppers, rice, and tomatoes all blended and slow-cooked into an all-in-one pot easy weeknight meal!

Meat and Vegetable Suggestions

• Cooked ground beef, pork, turkey, venison
• Leftover cubed boneless meat, chicken, pork chops, steak, lamb
• Crushed meatballs from leftover spaghetti sauce or sliced cooked Italian sausage
• Canned Tuna, shrimp, or crab meat
• Minced onions
• Shredded carrots
• Sliced mushrooms
• Cubed zucchini
• Peas

Slow Cooker Spanish Rice Recipe

This slow cooker recipe is super easy and if you're a busy cook, this will be a delicious recipe for you to make while doing other things all day to free up your time.


The fresh tomato along with ground beef makes this an all-in-one pot easy meal and very economical to feed a large family.


We just love the flavors slow cooking produces and this is even terrific to repurpose leftovers in a flour tortilla for another meal!


Just check out our simple ingredients and the slow cooker/crockpot will do its magic in making this meal completely simplified.

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Yield: 6

Author: Claudia Lamascolo

Slow Cooker Spanish Rice

Slow Cooker Spanish Rice Recipe is a great side dish or can be a whole meal!

Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 2 HourTotal time: 2 H & 10 M

Ingredients

• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 cup long-grain brown rice, rinsed
• 1 bell pepper, diced
• 1/2 cup onion, diced
• 15 ounces diced tomatoes with juices
• 1 1/2 cups beef broth
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cumin
• 1 1/2 teaspoon salt (or more)
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon oregano
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1 tablespoon oil

Instructions

1. In a large frying pan saute the ground beef with salt & pepper until all the pink is gone.
2. Drain the fat and add to the slow cooker.
3. Add the rice, onion, bell pepper, diced tomatoes, broth (or water), cumin, chili powder, salt, oregano, paprika, and pepper to the slow cooker.
4. After combining mix until blended evenly.
5. Cover.
6. Slow cook on high 2-3 hours or low 4-6.
7. Note check at around 2 hours and see if the rice is soft and the liquid is absorbed to your preference.
8. We like ours soft and cook it. Timing is should be checked on the half hour after that.

Notes

Meat and Vegetable Suggestions

• Cooked ground beef, pork, turkey, venison
• Leftover cubed boneless meat, chicken, pork chops, steak, lamb
• Crushed meatballs from leftover spaghetti sauce or sliced cooked Italian sausage
• Canned Tuna, shrimp, or crab meat
• Minced onions
• Shredded carrots
• Sliced mushrooms
• Cubed zucchini
• Peas

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