Friday, January 6, 2012

chicken and rice

I just made a quick chicken and rice dish. It turned out pretty good. You could use it as a soup or thicken it with potato starch (thank you Brenda) like I did. I think kids would like it. I cooked Trader Joe's quick brown rice (takes 12 minutes) While the rice was cooking:
In a big pot I added chicken broth as much as you want I think I had over a cup; and 2 Swanson's chicken flavor pack with 2 cups of water. (no gluten no msg no onion) If time permitted you could saute chopped celery ribs in butter (or oil) but I used celery salt tonight. You could also saute onion if you wanted but I can't do onions. I added diced chicken breasts that I had cooked and froze last weekend. I also added 2 bay leaves and some rosemary (rosemary and chicken are perfect together!) I let that simmer for about 20 minutes then added the rice. At this point it would make a nice thick soup but I'm fond of stews so I thickened it with potato starch. I didn't use corn starch because I'm sure about corn yet. Oh and for Leah I added peas and carrots frozen:o) What can I say I'm not a veggie person.

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