Easy, undemanding midweek meal! Rice with shredded hen cooked in a selfmade enchilada sauce (or use store-bought!), topped with cheese. All made in a single pot!
All you would like is chicken, rice, tomato passata (or canned tomato) and a handful of pantry essentials to make this fascinating flavour loaded, comfort-food-central meal. Oh wait – cheese. Of course you would like cheese. This does now not be “Enchilada” with out cheese!
I’ve been overloading on Mexican over the final couple of weeks, sharing my Mexican Shredded Beef and Freezer Friendly Beef Burritos. I really sense just a little foolish sharing yet one other Mexican(-esque) recipe today, but I hadn’t truly deliberate to! I had Cashew Chicken all capable to go, then I got the sweetest message from TWO readers in a single day asking me to please share additional one-pot recipes simply due to the fact they liked my One Pot Greek Chicken & Lemon Rice so much. 🙂 So I decided to shuffle my posting calendar just a little and share this today. I desire you don’t mind!
I love this sort of meals for midweek. I name it Couch Food. The definition of Couch Food is “any meal that may be served in a bowl and eaten with a fork or spoon with out taking your eyes off the TV”.
There are fairly a number of spices required for this recipe as the sauce the rice is cooked in is simply about selfmade Enchilada sauce. I’ve marked the foods that make up the Enchilada Sauce with an asterisk (*) so that you may in reality change with a shop offered Enchilada Sauce and it's going to turn into even simpler to make!
My key tip for making here is to take it off the range whereas it's nonetheless fairly saucy as the rice will hold to take in water whereas it's resting – or even whereas you're serving it. You desire it beautiful saucy – now not sloppy, but now not dry.
And please please please don’t overcook the rice so it's mushy! The liquid amounts I’ve supplied won't yield mushy rice – I like mine smooth but agency (it’s an Asian “thing”), but I realize some folks tend to get careworn that the rice isn’t cooking and upload additional water. Which is absolutely fine, cook dinner the rice on your style but simply don’t allow it turn into child food! 🙂
Hope you had a fantastic weekend! Back on Wednesday with anything just a little other – but tremendous easy, tremendous tasty and absolutely irresistible! – Nagi x
PS Check out how bubbly and golden it looks…..ugh. Help me. I simply desire to dive in and seize a spoonful.
One Pot Chicken Enchilada Rice Casserole - the flavours of hen enchilada, in a rice casserole, all made in ONE POT at the stove!
Everything you realize and love concerning the flavour of Chicken Enchiladas.....but within the type of a rice casserole! And all made in ONE POT at the stove! I just like the circulate of this recipe simply due to the fact you do now not have got to degree everything out in advance. After cooking the bell pepper (capsicum) upload the passata and hen broth, then whereas that involves a simmer you possibly can collect all of the spices. Saves time! This recipe makes a LOT. Because it's carb heavy, I suppose it's sufficient to feed 6.
Ingredients
1 tbsp olive oil
13 oz/400 g hen breast, about 1/3"/1cm thick, sliced horizontally into thin steaks (Note 1)
1 small onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, crushed
1 red bell pepper/capsicum, diced
24 oz/680 g tomato passata or beaten canned tomatoes* (Note 2)
3 cups hen broth or water (750ml)
1 1/2 cups frozen corn (250g)
½ tsp cayenne pepper* (spicy - modify to taste)
1 tbsp dried oregano*
2 tsp cumin*
1 ½ tsp coriander*
2 tsp onion powder*
1 tbsp brown sugar*
Salt and pepper
1 1/2 cups / 270g white rice (short, medium or lengthy grain, (Note 4)
1 - 1 1/2 cups grated cheese (about 125 - 150 g)
TO SERVE
Chopped cilantro/coriander optional
Instructions
Heat olive oil over medium excessive warmth in big skillet.
Add hen and cook dinner every facet for 2 minutes or till cooked, then take away onto a plate.
Add additional oil if the skillet is watching dry. Add onion and garlic, cook dinner for 1 1/2 minutes till beginning to soften.
Add bell peppers and cook dinner for a added 2 minutes.
Add remaining foods besides rice and cheese. Bring to simmer, then upload rice.
Stir, conceal with a lid and switch down warmth to medium low. Cover and cook dinner till rice is cooked but now not mushy and most of the liquid is absorbed - about 15 to 18 minutes. (Note 3). Do now not stir whereas it cooks.
Meanwhile, shred or roughly chop chicken.
When rice is cooked, quick stir hen through, sprinkle with cheese then pop beneath broil / grill till golden and bubbly.
Serve, garnished with recent cilantro/coriander if desired.
Recipe Notes:
1. Slice the hen into thin steaks simply so they cook dinner quicker at the stove. You may bash them thinner utilizing a meat mallet or rolling pin within the event you choose (place the hen among dangle wrap). Or within the event you had a foul day. It's very therapeutic.
2. Tomato passata is simply pureed tinned tomatoes. Nowadays it's with ease handy in supermarkets, often alongside pasta sauces. It fees only a tiny bit more, typically the same, as canned tomatoes. If you cannot discover it, puree canned tomatoes or use beaten canned tomatoes.
3. Add additional water if required simply due to the fact many variables can have an effect on the quantity of water required to cook dinner rice. When you end cooking, you desire a little bit of liquid left within the rice so it's just a little saucy. Also rely that the rice will hold to take in liquid even if you are taking it off the stove.
4. This recipe is applicable to short, medium or lengthy grain (aka "normal") white rice. It isn't applicable to brown rice, risotto, calasparra (paella) rice or wild rice. I am beautiful certain it's going to work with Jasmin and Basmati simply due to the fact they water to liquid ratio is the identical and the cook dinner time is similar. But I cannot say with 100 pc walk in the park simply due to the fact I have now not tried it.
* These foods are the "Enchilada Sauce" on this recipe. You can change all those foods with 24oz/680g of shop offered Enchilada Sauce within the event you prefer.
5. STORAGE: This will reheat effective within the microwave from the fridge or thawed after freezing.
NUTRITION INFORMATION:
Serving: 443gCalories: 490kcal (25%)