Easy One-Pot Chicken and Rice Skillet Meal

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Get ready for the easiest dinner solution you’ve ever made! This one-pot chicken and rice recipe is a weeknight game-changer. With tender chicken and a colorful blend of bell peppers, carrots, corn, and peas, this simple skillet meal is packed with flavor. The best part? Everything cooks together in one pan, making cleanup an absolute breeze.

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One-Pot Chicken and Rice

We have been working on projects behind the scenes. Doing some deep cleaning. Painting and fixing up my office workspace. Can I just get a professional organizer in my home? lol Oh, wait, that is supposed to be me.

As a parents, we juggle all things. Right? I’m always up for making a good homemade meal, but love finding quick and easy recipes to add to my list of meal planning recipes. Because some days you just don’t have time to cook a complicated dinner.

Why do we love this 30-minute chicken, vegetables, and rice dinner?

I spotted a recipe, and adapted it to suit our family’s tastes. We have one teriyaki lover and two soy sauce lovers.

This chicken vegetable rice is such an easy dinner idea that you’re sure to love. It can be adapted to be vegetarian by omitting chicken and using vegetable broth. If you want fish instead of chicken, try using a frozen shrimp for convenience. I’d cook it separately per package directions, then add to the recipe at the end. 

Let’s get cooking this family meal. 

What’s Inside This One-Pot Chicken and Rice?

Ingredients

• Boneless skinless chicken breasts or a package of pre cut boneless chicken cubed
• Rice 1 cup we used Uncle Ben’s White Rice
• Soy Sauce 1/2 cup
• Olive Oil 2 tbsp.
• 1 Red Bell Pepper
• 1 Green Bell Pepper
• Organic Baby Carrots cut into bites size pieces 1 cup
  or regular carrots, peeled and cut
• 2 large Garlic Cloves
• 1 Fresh Ginger
• Frozen Mixed Vegetables: Corn and Peas 1 cup each
  or 2 cups frozen mixed Vegetables
• 1 cup Chicken Broth = one small can of chicken broth 14.5 oz
• Spices: Pepper

You can use any frozen vegetables your family enjoys eating: green beans, broccoli, and mixed vegetables in any combination.

How to Make One-Pot Chicken and Rice

Instructions

1. Start by washing and chopping red and green bell peppers
2. Peel and chop your ginger 
3. Peel and chop your garlic

1. Cut up your skinless, boneless chicken breasts. (Do NOT use the same cutting board for cutting vegetables that you cut your raw meat this can cause cross-contamination)
2. Heat your non-stick pan (that has a lid), add olive oil or sesame seed oil. Add your chicken, lightly brown on all sides.
3. Next, drop in your veggies.
4. Mix the vegetables with the chicken a cook for several minutes. Slightly browning the chicken (as in image 4 above).

Add pepper to your chicken. Maybe add a pinch or add more like we did. 

Add in your rice.

The final steps to finish the cooking:

1. Next, add the soy sauce and the chicken broth. Stir it together. It will look like a lot of water. The rice will absorb it.
2. Cover the pan, bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. Cook for about 15-20 minutes, stirring at least once, checking the liquid level.
3. During the last 10 minutes, add your frozen vegetables, stir, and finish cooking until your rice is tender.

Serve this easy chicken dinner a bowl and enjoy!

Garnish with thinly sliced green onion. Or chopped parsely.

Watch them eat, and eat. Ahhhh.

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Chicken Fried Rice Recipe

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One Pot Chicken Stir Fry

This reminds me of our favorite Chinese restaurant's fried rice with chicken, minus the fried egg. This is an easy one pot meal ready in 30 minutes for dinner any night of the week.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Servings 4

Author Theresa Huse DearCreatives.com

Ingredients

• Boneless skinless chicken breasts or a package of pre cut boneless chicken cubes
• Rice 1 cup we used Uncle Ben's White Rice
• Soy Sauce 1/2 cup
• Olive oil 2 tbsp.
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 green bell pepper
• organic baby carrots cut into bites size pieces 1 cup
• 2 large cloves of garlic
• 1 fresh ginger
• Frozen corn and peas 1 cup each
• 1 cup chicken broth = one small can of chicken broth 14.5 oz
• pepper

Instructions

1. Start by washing, and chopping red, and green bell peppers
2. Peel and chop your ginger
3. Peel and chop your garlic
4. Cut up your skinless, boneless chicken breasts.
5. Heat up your non stick pan (that has a lid) add olive oil or sesame seed oil. Add your chicken, lightly brown on all sides.
6. Next drop in your veggies
7. Mix the vegetable with the chicken a cook several minutes
8. Add pepper to your chicken. Make it a pinch or add more like we did.
9. Add in your Rice
10. Add in your soy sauce, and chicken broth. Stir together. It will look like a lot of water but, the rice will absorb it.
11. Cover, bring to boil then reduce to simmer. Cook for about 15-20 minutes, stirring at least once checking liquid level. During the last 10 minutes add your frozen vegetables, stir and finish cooking until your rice is tender.
12. Garnish with thinly sliced green onion.
13. Serve, and enjoy.

Recipe Notes

This chicken vegetable rice is such an easy dinner idea that your sure to love. This recipe can be adapted to vegetarian by omitting chicken, add more vegetables, and using vegetable broth. If you want fish instead of chicken try using a frozen shrimp for convenience, cook per directions, and add.

Adapted from Recipe Rebel One Pot Teriyaki Chicken Rice, and Vegetables

Sammie even packed and took some leftovers for her school lunch. A nod to how much she liked this easy dinner. 

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