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Best Tips for When to Add Rice & Pasta to Slow Cooker

July 6, 2014 by Jenn K 1 Comment

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When to Add Rice and Pasta to the Slow Cooker

Making some meat or chicken with a sauce in the slow cooker can make for a wonderful meal. But cooking the rice or pasta “on the side” is not always necessary. With many recipes, you can add the rice or pasta right in and let it cook during the last bit of cooking.

However, adding rice or pasta in at the beginning with the meat means you are going to have a mushy mess at the end! Use my best slow cooker tips for when to add rice and pasta to keep that from happening to you…

  • When to Add Rice to the Slow Cooker
  • When to Add Pasta to the Slow Cooker

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Filed Under: Budget Friendly Recipes, How To Cook, One Dish Dinners Recipes, Pasta Recipes, Rice Recipes, Slow Cooker Recipes Tagged With: 31 days of slow cooker meals, Cooking Tutorial Techniques

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  1. Creamy & Cheesy Crockpot Chicken and Rice says:
    September 12, 2014 at 11:21 pm

    […] NOTE: Several people have reported issues with adding the rice as instructed below… here is a great post on “fixing” that problem: When to Add Rice to Your Slow Cooker Recipes. […]

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