No Peek chicken is a creamy chicken and rice dinner topped with onions, I adapted this vintage recipe to do well in the slow cooker.
If you love onion flavor, also try my Slow Cooker French onion soup, Slow Cooker French Onion Chicken or Lipton onion potatoes.
Hello! I haven’t done a vintage recipe since November, and it’s been killing me. My favorite recipes to do here on the blog are the vintage recipes that I convert to the slow cooker.
The recipes I’ve seen online call this meal either “No Peek Chicken” or “Forgotten Chicken”. The reasoning for the name of “No Peek Chicken” is that this recipe does best if you leave it be in the oven without peeking, though I am using the slow cooker for my recipe, the same principle is used. I am a firm believer in leaving the lid on the slow cooker the entire cooking time for most recipes anyway.
I use minute rice in my recipe. I have not had any luck with standard rice in the slow cooker, but have with minute rice in a few of my recipes. When I dove into making this recipe I was very unsure if the minute rice could hold up to 3.5 hours of slow cooking, but it did fine! You will also love my Slow Cooker Whole Chicken and Rice Recipe.
For this recipe, I start by mixing the soups, with one can of water, garlic powder, pepper and the Minute rice. I add the rice mixture and chicken to the slow cooker, then I sprinkle on the onion soup mix. It may seem like a lot of salty things in this recipe, but keep in mind the rice and the chicken are unseasoned. I did not take very many step by step photos of this recipe because I made a video instead, scroll down a bit to see exactly how to put this meal together in my video.
Below is the dish after cooking. The chicken is tender, rice has set up and there is still creaminess to the sauce.
What do you think of this meal? I love that it’s pretty much a complete meal besides maybe adding a simple salad. Have a great weekend!
Slow Cooker No Peek Chicken
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 10.5 oz. cream of chicken soup (1 can)
- 10.5 oz. cream of mushroom soup (1 can)
- 1 can water measured from one of the cans above
- 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- 2 cups Minute® rice not standard rice
- 1 oz. packet Lipton® onion soup mix
Instructions:
- Add the cans of soup, one can of water, garlic powder, pepper and Minute rice to a large bowl. Mix well.
- Spray the slow cooker with non-stick spray.
- Add half of the above mixture in the slow cooker. Lay over the chicken breasts. Spread over the rest of the rice mixture.
- Sprinkle over the soup mix.
- Cover and cook on HIGH for 3.5 hours. Do not peek during the cooking time!
- Serve and enjoy!
How to Video:
Sarah’s Notes:
Nutrition Information:
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
See the other Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes here on The Magical Slow Cooker:
- Slow Cooker Chicken with Bacon Gravy
- Slow Cooker Chicken and Gravy (without bacon)
- Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken
- Slow Cooker Seasoned Chicken, Potatoes and Green Beans
- Slow Cooker Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole
- Slow Cooker Full Chicken Dinner
- Slow Cooker Ranch Chicken and Red Potatoes
- Slow Cooker Garlic Butter Chicken and Veggies
- Slow Cooker Fiesta Chicken with Rice
- Slow Cooker Cilantro Lime Fajitas
- Slow Cooker Alpine Chicken
- Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Casserole
Kathy says
Stores are currently out of minute rice. Can I substitute ‘ready’ rice? If so, should it be added at the beginning or half way through cooking?
Clarissa says
I love this recipe. Thank you for sharing. I actually have a 1960 cookbook from Graham Kerr with a very similar recipe in it. The only difference I can see is that he uses milk instead of broth. I’ve made it for years and the family loves it.
carolyn smaron says
what do you think will happen if I use Jasmine rice instead of minute rice
Sarah Olson says
standard rice gets chalky and mushy in the slow cooker. The slow cooker doesn’t get hot enough.
Anonymous says
So good! The hubs doesnt particularly like rice, which baffles me, but he said this was delish!
Bonnie says
If i use frozen chicken breasts do I need to thaw them first? Would I have to adjust the time?
Kenzie says
All meat used in crockpot should be thawed. You risk creating an environment for bacteria to grow rather than to kill it, due to the slow, low heat to cook.
Landra M Chamberlain says
This was great. Easy to put together and great taste.
Lm Tinkham says
I would love to see more
Bobbie says
Hi, we’re living in a motel room right now and all I have is a slow cooker so I really want to try this. If im adding fresh mushrooms and fresh Brussels sprouts around the chicken before i cover up with the other half of the rice mixture, do you think I should increase the liquid? Thanks!
Anonymous says
Yes add just a little more liquid
Lauri Milinich says
Sarah!! Girl they say a way to a man’s heart is thru his stomach…..well your recipe worked!!!
Thanks so much!!!
Sarah Olson says
Yay! LOL so glad it worked.
Christine says
Can’t wait to try. Looks delicious.
Christy says
I’ve been making no peak chicken for years. I modify and only use GF cream of mushroom. I also use frozen chicken breasts. It literally takes 5 minutes to throw it together. If you’re planning on using the over instead, cooking time is 2 hours at 350*.
Nikki says
So super excited to try this recipe! Has anyone tried it with cauliflower rice? I am literally the worst cook in the entire world. I am finding amazing recipes all over the Internet and this one looks fabulous but I’m wondering if anyone has tried it with cauliflower rice!m? If not, I’m sticking to the recipe.