Slow-Cooked Sausage Spanish Rice

Submitted by ratherbeswimmin

• Ready In: 6hrs 10mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 1 lb kielbasa, cut into 1/4 inch slices
• 2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans diced tomatoes, undrained
• 2 cups water
• 1 1⁄2 cups uncooked uncle ben converted rice
• 1 cup salsa
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1⁄2 cup chopped green bell pepper
• 1⁄2 cup chopped red bell pepper
• 1 (4 ounce) can chopped green chilies
• 1 envelope taco seasoning

directions

1. Add all ingredients to a slow cooker; stir to mix.
2. Cover and cook on LOW for 5-6 hours or until rice is tender.

Reviews

[J-Lynn]

I will not give this stars because I didn't follow the recipe very closely. I cut the amounts in half but used the whole can of green chiles. (what else would I do with them?!) I used regular white rice. My crockpot is 6 qt, which usually cooks a small recipe in shorter time. On low, the rice was starting to get overcooked and the liquid was gone at 3 hours, but the onions were crisp-tender. We just ate it that way; but next time I will use my chopper to make the veggies very small. And maybe add the rice a bit later? It was also VERRY spicy; next time don't use twice the amount of chiles and maybe decrease the taco seasoning! Overall, good flavor.

 

[NICU Nurse Dee]

Made this recipe today for myself and my husband and we both loved it! We thought the flavor was just perfect, not at all heavy on the tomatoes as a previous reviewer commented. We will definitely make this again.

 

[naturegal07]

Kielbasa is a great addition to this recipe. I put it on the 8-hr setting on my crockpot and added some extra water-- big mistake. It came out VERY mushy... my fault. Still tasty. Next time I will follow the directions to a T.

 

[windhorse23]

I didn't enjoy this much and neither did my family. I didn't change anything. I think the recipe was too heavy on the tomatoes, and the tomato flavor was overpowering. I usually love Nurse Di's recipes, so this was disappointing.

 

[valgieg1]

I took this to a potluck at church and several people wanted the recipe. It is always nice to have easy crockpot recipes on hand that taste FABULOUS!