This is a one pot meal made in a skillet. I used a 12 inch cast iron skillet, but you can use any oven proof skillet with lid that you have. If you don't have a skillet with lid, then use aluminum foil over the top of your skillet. Go for size of close to 12 inches though. The meal will overflow if the pan is too big and overcook if spread across a larger skillet.
This was a meal where I started with a single boneless, skinless chicken breast and thought that would not make much of a meal alone so played around with what I had in the refrigerator.
Chicken and Rice with Mushrooms Recipe
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
Ingredients:
1 1/2 Tablespoon olive oil (or 1 TBS olive oil and 1/2 TBS butter for more flavor)
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1 boneless skinless chicken breast or around 1 1/2 cup of raw bite sized chicken chunks
Seasoning (I used black pepper, seasoning salt, Italian seasoning, parsley flakes, and chopped garlic - around 1/2 tsp of each except garlic at 1 TBS)
2 cups mushrooms cleaned and sliced (I used baby bellas)
3/4 cup jasmine rice (or long grain)
1 1/2 cups chicken broth
Directions:
1. Heat oil in skillet that will be used to cook the dish in the oven until hot. If using butter in with the olive oil, it will just start to sizzle.
2. Add onions and green peppers and let cook in the hot oil for around 2 minutes so that the flavors will be released. You will smell the onions..
3. Add the chicken chunks and stir and cook until browned.
4. Add seasoning when you put the chicken in the skillet. Have fun playing around with this. I listed what I used today, but I vary it depending on my mood.
5. Add mushrooms and let them soften a little - 3 or 4 minutes.
6. Stir in rice and let it brown a tad. This takes 30 seconds to a minute.
7. Pour in the chicken broth and let just come to a boil and remove skillet from the burner.
8. Put lid on skillet and put in 375 degree oven for 25 minutes. If it happens to be a little soupy, just take off lid and bake for a couple of minutes to soak that in.
This dish will feed two people as complete meals or four as a main dish with sides like green beans or sliced melon and tomatoes.
