Recipe: Tasty Creamy Chicken and Rice

Creamy Chicken and Rice. This was very good, and a very creamy delightful switch from the usual run of the mill "Chicken & Rice" recipes. But I have got to say after making it a few times I tried a more gourmet tasting flair to it and it worked. This homemade chicken and rice soup is a favorite soup of ours!

It's like a chicken noodle soup made creamy with rice in place of noodles and I just can't get enough! What's in This Chicken and Rice Casserole? Creamy Chicken with Rice. to favorites. You can have Creamy Chicken and Rice using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Creamy Chicken and Rice

1. Prepare 1/2 cup of white rice.
2. Prepare 6 oz of cream of mushroom soup.
3. It's 4 oz of chicken breast.
4. Prepare 3 tbsp of shredded cheddar.
5. Prepare 1 of portabella mushroom.
6. You need 1/8 cup of diced tomato.
7. It's 1/8 cup of diced onion.
8. You need 10 of fresh cilantro.
9. Prepare 2 tsp of basil.
10. It's 2 tsp of thyme.
11. You need 2 tsp of ground black pepper.
12. Prepare 2 pinch of cayenne pepper.

Add the chicken and cook until it's well browned on both sides. Stir the soup, water, mustard and pepper in the skillet and heat to a boil. Creamy chicken and rice made in just one skillet with minimal prep! This is the best way to get my kiddos to eat their spinach - it blends right in with the rice and they devour it all!

Creamy Chicken and Rice instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325°F.
2. In small mixing bowl, combine white rice and cream of mushroom soup. Take small pan (5"×10" or smaller) and evenly spread mixture evenly across bottom..
3. In this order, dice and spread cilantro, tomato, mushroom, and onion evenly sprinkle over rice..
4. Combine basil, thyme, ground black pepper, and cayenne pepper. Take chicken breast and coat both sides with seasoning mixture. Place chicken breast, centered and on top of the fixings, in the pan..
5. Sprinkle cheese over top, and cover pan with aluminum foil. Place in oven and cook for 40 minutes..

This is a comfort food classic made extra easy. I'm going to let you in on a dark and dirty secret from my past. Nothing beats this one-pot creamy chicken and rice recipe when it comes to convenience or comfort. Also, we can pretty much guarantee you won't. Add rice and bring to a simmer until rice is tender and chicken is cooked through.

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