Cooking with Kids – Easy Chicken and Rice Soft Tacos Recipe
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The Chicken and Rice Soft Tacos Recipe is mine.
In our house, we have 6 kids and sometimes finding a meal that everyone likes can be a challenge. When I do prepare a meal that everyone likes (and wants again), it is definitely a win! I love to cook and especially love it when our kids want to help in the kitchen. Recently, my son and I worked together to create a Chicken and Rice Soft Tacos Recipe and EVERYONE in our home loved it! In fact, the kids wanted to know when I was going to make it again. Not only is it a great thing to prepare a meal that everyone likes and that our kids want to help make, but it is also a plus to have enough time to prepare a healthy and delicious meal!
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EASY CHICKEN AND RICE SOFT TACOS RECIPE
Ingredients
- 3 lbs Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts (thawed if previously frozen)
- Mild Original Salsa (or any flavor you’d like – enough to cover the chicken in the crockpot)
- Flour Tortillas (soft taco size)
- Shredded Cheese
- Shredded Lettuce
- UNCLE BEN’S® Ready Rice (Roasted Chicken with Carrots and Herb flavor)
Directions
1 – Spread a layer of Mild Original Salsa in the bottom of the crockpot.
2 – Cut chicken breasts in half and place in crockpot.
3 – Cover with Mild Original Salsa.
4 – Add another layer of chicken breasts and cover with salsa.
5 – Cover with lid and cook for 5 1/2 hours on HIGH Heat.
6 – Shred chicken with 2 forks and mix in crockpot with salsa.
7 – Drain chicken in strainer, removing excess liquid.
8 – Tear an opening in the UNCLE BEN’S® Ready Rice and heat in microwave for 90 seconds. Carefully remove from the microwave and pour into a bowl for easy serving.
9 – Heat flour tortillas in microwave on a paper plate. separated by paper towels. Heat for 10-15 seconds or until warm.
10 – Fill tortillas with shredded chicken, UNCLE BEN’S® Ready Rice, shredded lettuce, shredded cheese, and salsa.
This is definitely an easy and delicious meal to prepare, as well as one that our entire family enjoys! We’ll definitely be making the Easy Chicken and Rice Soft Tacos again soon!
Who in your family would enjoy this recipe? What would you add?
This is such a yummy recipe. Definitely making it for the teen boy next week he will love it.
We have Taco Tuesday every week in our house. I am going to have to make these for dinner next Tuesday.
Mexican is one of our favorites, I love how it’s a microwave and a crockpot, easy!
YUM!! I love it when I am online looking for recipe inspiration and I come across a recipe that I have all the ingredients for already! Making this tonight!
This recipe looks so delicious, and you explain the steps so well! Awesome post!
You know, I have never put rice in my tacos before. My husband was just asking me to make something with rice in it. I am totally throwing together some chicken and rice tacos later this week! Thanks for the idea!
That looks really good! I love trying new recipes to switch things up a bit during the week and this would be perfect!
My husband and teen would enjoy this. This looks so easy to make
That looks SO GOOD! I know what we’re having next Taco Tuesday. I can’t wait to bust out the crock pot and whip some of this up. Om nom nom.
This looks like a great recipe to try with kids. Who doesn’t love Mexican food?? YUM!!
I know what we’re having for dinner this weekend. These tacos look delicious, and like a total crowd pleaser meal.
This is a simple fun recipe! We can never go wrong with tacos here at home yummy!
These Tacos look really yummy! I love that the recipe is so easy to follow and I am sure the kids would love this.
I have never owned a crockpot but this recipe is tempting me to consider asking Santa for one for Xmas sounds like something I could throw in on my way out and then come to home to an easy cooked meal and eliminate the temptation to pick up some un-healthy fast food on the way home after a long day at work!
It’s so nice to have the kids involved in the kitchen. It teaches them some much needed life skills! This is a really good recipe to start with.
Perfect for taco night! I love easy recipes like this that’s packed with flavors as well. I’m sure my kids will love them too! Thanks for the recipe!
My kids LOVE Tacos and your recipe looks super yummy. I totally have to get my crock pot out and step up our Taco Tuesday.
I love to get kids busy in the kitchen. This looks like a great recipe to make with the kids. I will have to try it this weekend.
Those look really good. I may need to try them out for dinner soon. I also love Uncle Ben’s rice. I use it all the time.
I think even my picky eaters would like this recipe! It is hard to find things that all of my kids will like.
We are going to have to try this recipe. Chicken is our go-to meat of choice and I am always looking for new crockpot meals. I bet this would be good with a bit of cream cheese and black beans too.
Don’t you just love a meal that comes together effortlessly and that everyone loves? I sure do and I think this one does just that!
I think teaching kids about the beauty of a crockpot at an early age will make cooking easier and less intimidating at an older age. Nice job 🙂
This is truly an easy way to cook with kids, thanks for sharing. Going to try to get my son to make this up with me 🙂
yum and so easy! I;ll try it with my nephews!!
Tacos are a great go-to for almost any night of the week. Kids love them so you know they will actually eat instead of complaining.
What a great program, idea…recipe… all of it!! I love getting my year and a half son helping with cooking. I’m hoping it sticks with him through life!
It is so important to teach kids how to cook. My son would totally love to learn to make these. He loves tacos.
We love Uncle Ben’s rice. These tacos look really tasty and so easy to make too.
I love easy recipes, so thank you for this one! I have never put rice in my tacos, but honestly don’t know why I never tried it, looks so good!
I never would have thought to add rice to the tacos like that. It sounds really good! I’m going to have to give it a try.
These chicken tacos sound like something that my kids would eat (they are super picky!) That Ben’s Beginner contest sounds awesome. Who wouldn’t want a huge cash prize or a lunchroom makeover. Our cafeteria is in dire need of an update so we’ll be sure to enter!
My husband and I sure love tacos and I’d love to prepare this one of these days. I really like the flavor! We don’t have kids but I do like the idea of asking kids to help cook with their parents.
This looks so delicious! I think it is so important to incorporate kids in cooking meals. I think it really does help them consume healthier meals. We will have to enter that contest! Some great prizes!
Uncle Ben’s is one of our favorite brands of rice. These sound delicious for dinner!
Oh my gosh! I think Uncle Ben’s Ready Rice is THE best invention! I love how easy it is to use. I make sure that my pantry is always stocked with a few bags.
I think it’s so important to get kids involved young – cooking included! These look so good and so fun for you to make with your kids too. I definitely have to try making these – and share with my SIL to make with her kids, she’d love this!
I love that you shred the chicken. That makes for a much nicer texture than chunks when it comes to tacos. Uncle Bens is a beauty for helping with family meals. We use it often!
Getting my kids in the kitchen has been a goal of mine the past few years. They would love eating these tacos and making them too!
Looks like a great dinner! I am saving this recipe. Chicken and rice is a winner and to have it in tacos will be even more delicious!
Wow. This sure is an easy to prepare meal, and delicious too. I have not tried that brand of rice yet. Adding it to my grocery list so we can enjoy this meal this weekend!
This sounds perfect for Taco Tuesday! I’m always looking for easy recipes that we can do during the week. Saving this for later.
This recipe is perfect for kids (and their moms!) I love how easy it is and it looks delicious!
This looks like an awesome time saver! I seriously need to break out my crock pot and put this recipe into action!
Love this post. This recipe is awesome. It love trying to cook new food, and I definitely follow this tacos recipe tomorrow!
Looks very tasty. Must try recipe!
Tacos can be everything for me! This looks so easy to make thanks for this!
I just went back to work so I need these crockpot meals! This looks good. Thanks for sharing.
Love tachos as well, soft or hard. But now, I prefer the soft one because the one with a hard shell is often messy to eat. Ihihi. Will do this recipe this weekend.
I love how Uncle Bens is now making ways to include kids int he kitchen. I think it is important to start teaching them to cook what they can within reason.
My daughters love to help in the kitchen and would have so much fun making this dinner!
Wow this looks amazing. I am so making this for a weekday dinner recipe. Love that its an easy crockpot recipe that can be made without much fuss. Thanks for sharing.
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Love this…the kids would enjoy it and we love uncle bens anyway. The 10 minute rice.
Am glad that the preparation looks easy and the ingredients are also easy to source. Saving this recipe for the weekend!
I need to try this. it looks so easy to make. Another recipe to serve my kids.
I love cooking with kids! It’s so important to get them involved and make them feel like they can contribute to their own food and health.
This looks so easy to make and good recipe for everyone. I enjoyed those pictures too.
using a crockpot and making chicken tacos – girl, I like you already! We love tacos, and we love chicken, but I have never used a ready-rice for this type of meal. Will give it a try. thanks
Everyone in my family would enjoy this! I love cooking with my kids and they love being in the kitchen. I’m pinning this so we can try it next week!
I need to start cooking with my kids cause they are such picky eaters and I think getting involved well help that alot!!
I love tacos! I would probably make it w/o the rice… less carb lol
this looks so good. my kids love cooking with me and who doesn’t love tacos
Totally sold at “Tacos”, but yum – adding Uncle Ben’s must make it so much more filling! I have a feeling that this will be made in my kitchen sometime soon!
This chicken rice soft tacos recipe is something I will have to try for sure. The Ben’s Beginner’s Program sounds amazing for kids and their families. I will have to share this information with my niece for her kids who love cooking. Thanks for sharing the recipe and the information.
Wow this is perfect while watching our favorite series. Glad it looks easy to prepare since I don’t cook that much lols. Thanks for sharing!
I have never heard of rice on tacos but it does sound delicious with chicken and I will be trying this..I would also try it with rice and shrimp or crab meat 🙂
I have not tried rice on tacos but I think the flavor you used would be great. We eat chicken fairly often so I am excited to try this recipe. Thanks!
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What a yummy recipe. The kids like to help in the kitchen, these would be great to make.
This looks super tasty! Kids will love it!