This is a very, very easy recipe that I love to make on nights when dh is working late & I come home by myself. It takes five minutes to throw together & into the oven, & it's ready about the time he arrives home:
Easy Chicken & Rice Casserole
In a casserole dish, combine 1 & 1/3 cups white rice with one envelope of onion soup mix, one can of cream of mushroom soup & 1.5-2 soup cans of water.
Add chicken breasts. (I use two for dh & me, but you could certainly add more -- four would likely be optimal.)
Bake in a 350F oven for 1.5 hours.
That's it!
I also make a version of this with pork chops. The only difference is that you brown the pork chops in a frying pan first, & cover the casserole dish in the oven. We serve it with veggies, but I've seen variations of this recipe that add vegetables into the mixture. I've used just a half envelope of the onion soup mix and reduced fat cream of mushroom soup to reduce the fat & sodium levels.
For just the two of us, there is lots of rice leftover -- we just refrigerate it & use it later in the week with something easy like chicken strips or fishsticks when we're in a rush for dinner.
We do this for the leftovers from a roast dinner. Put cooked chicken and cold, cooked vegetables in a dish with rice and soup and a bit of water, and bake. Mmm mmm mmm!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm always on the hunt for recipes just like that.
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