Baked Chicken with Rice

  • Prep Time
    10 minutes not including roasting garlic
  • Cook Time
    1 hour and 15 minutes
  • Serving
    4
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This is as easy as it is good.  It’s not spicy but it’s tasty.  It’s homey comfort food to the max. I had some roasted garlic from a dish I made the night before, but you don’t have to use garlic.  Or you could add a minced red bell pepper when you sprinkle the onions over the rice.  Or perhaps frozen peas.  I haven’t tried this with chicken breasts, so I can only warrant that this method produces tender dark meat with really good skin (it’s not crispy but it’s good!)  This reminds me of the baked chicken at Picadilly’s and that’s a good thing!

When you add the chopped onions, you can substitute a package of frozen onions and peppers.  Stirring in roasted garlic is optional.  Leftovers are very good — in fact, when you heat this up the second time, the rice is crispy around the edges and the bottom of the casserole and it’s delicious!

 

Ingredients

Baked Chicken and Rice

    Directions

    You could use chicken thighs, or thighs and legs. I used Texmati rice and it cooked up perfectly - tender and fluffy. Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees.

    Step 1

    Coat a 9 x 13 casserole dish with Crisco (in the solid stick form if you have it). Pat the chicken dry and season it well. You can lightly dredge it in seasoned flour. Put the chicken in the casserole skin side down and roast for 30 minutes at 450 degrees.

    Step 2

    Remove the casserole from the oven. Remove the chicken to a plate.

    Step 3

    Pour the raw rice in the casserole dish. Then put the diced onions and roasted garlic over the rice -- just squeeze the garlic out of the pod onto the rice. You could also add a diced green or red bell pepper! Replace the chicken in the dish atop the rice skin side up. Pour in the chicken stock.

    Step 4

    Bake uncovered at 400 degrees for about 45 minutes. Let the dish rest a minute and fluff the rice with a fork. Serve with a simple green salad.

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