One Pot Chicken Rice Dinner

We’ve never had rice done like this before. Well this One Pot Chicken Rice Dinner turned out great! It was fast and very tasty. Didn’t have any cooked rice in the freezer like recommended doing in my Ten Tips for Quick and Easy meals. Shame on me. Gammy likes cauliflower rice so I gave in and used some of that, in the interest of getting our dinner on the table quickly and easily. Did it all in one skillet and, yes, it was very good.

GOOD FOOD – eat it quickly or you will have to share it.

Here is what you will need

2 Tbsp. olive oil
1 Tbsp. butter
2 chicken filets or large tenders
2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. black pepper
1 tsp. garlic powder
8 small asparagus spears or 4 large
2 tbsp. chopped onion
1 roma tonato seeded and cut into strips
1 1/2 cauliflower rice or minute rice
1 lemon wedge

Let’s cook up our One Pot Chicken Rice Dinner

If you have to thaw out the chicken just do it in the microwave while you get the skillet ready. Put a skillet on at medium high and add about two tablespoons of olive oil and a tablespoon of butter.

Salt, pepper and garlic powder the chicken. When the butter has stopped bubbling lay the chicken in the skillet.

While the chicken is cooking cut up the veggies and have the rice available.

Just about any fast cooking veggie will work. We went with asparagus, tomato and onion tonight.

When you turn over the chicken lay out the asparagus and the onion in the skillet.

As the onion starts to get translucent and the asparagus is starting to get soft add the tomato slices and the cauliflower rice. Squeeze the juice from a lemon wedge on everything.

Stir the veggies up. The cauliflower rice is going to cook and get soft VERY quickly so as soon as it is soft serve it up! I garnished with a little fresh basil and some grated parmesan. We were really pleased with how tasty this turned out. Give it a try. I’ll bet that you will like it too.

And here is another one pot dinner recipe for you