CHICKEN AND RICE CASSEROLE

[Guest guest]

Vegetable oil

2 cups uncooked rice (it doesn't really matter what kind, except not

instant)

2 onions

1/2 pound of mushrooms, sliced

Salt and pepper

1 to 2 tsp. instant onion or mushroom soup mix (like Carmel brand)

1/2 to 1 pound other vegetable (green beans or carrots are good) cut

into bite-sized pieces

2 cups boiling water

2 cut-up chickens or 8 chicken breasts

 

Sauté the onions and mushrooms in oil. When liquid is mostly

evaporated from pan, add rice and brown. Spread this mixture in the

bottom of a large baking pan (or you could divide it between two

pans). Sprinkle with salt and pepper (leave out the salt if you're

using kosher chicken). Top with bite sized vegetables. Pour 2 c.

boiling water over this, and then place the chicken pieces on top.

Sprinkle lightly with the onion soup mix, and maybe a little more

pepper if you like pepper a lot. Cover tightly. If you're using

aluminium foil, make sure you seal it well, so the steam stays in

while it's cooking. Put in oven for about 55 minutes at 350, then

remove cover and cook another 15 minutes or so, until rice is done.

 

You may have to adjust the cooking time; it's never the same each

time. Also, you can leave this in the oven on warm for a while after

it's done actually cooking. After you remove the cover, once you see

the rice is done and the chicken looks good, it's ready. The rice

tends to get browned on top after you uncover,

 

Use best green beans or carrots in this dish. Things such as

broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini get too mushy.

[Guest guest]

Sorry guys. I do have two cooking groups (one dating back to the

times before we went vegetarian)

Although I post mostly vegetarian recipes there as well, sometimes I

copy a " meaty " recipe not to annoy the members too much.

Well, its only now I found out I'm posting at the wrong place!

 

Gabriella

[Guest guest]

Um, are chickens a vegetable now? ;-)

 

serene, just teasing because I know people sometimes accidentally post

meat recipes to vegetarian lists