Chicken & Rice {and stuff…}

I love a lot of texture in my food, so when I cook with pasta, I normally use a couple of different kinds. When I cook with rice, I normally add some type of pasta in with it. My chicken and rice actually has rotini and spaghetti noodles cooked into it as well.

This is a simple and quick meal which is VERY inexpensive – an entire pot takes all of about $4-5 bucks to make and feeds my family of 7 with leftovers to use as a side for our next meal!

The ingredients you will need are:

• Rice, rotini, and spaghetti
• Chicken broth
• Cream of chicken & mushroom soup
• Celery or cream of celery (optional)
• Seasoning salt (or just salt and pepper)
• Chicken (I use legs)
• Milk

The thing I love about this dish is that you put everything in together and cook it all at once. There’s no big production you have to put on in preparing this meal. All you have to do is wash your chicken, then throw it all in the pot to boil until it’s done!

In a large pot, mix together the chicken broth, seasoning salt (or salt and pepper), water, and milk then add the rice (about half a bag), the rotini (about a cup or so), and the speaghetti (I get a bunch approximately an inch or so in diameter and I break it into fourths to make smaller noodles). If you’re using celery, you will chop it up and add it; if you’re using cream of celery, I’d only use about a quarter to half of the can.

Honestly I don’t measure the amounts of each. I use a large box of Swanson broth, probably a cup and a half of milk, a few dashes of seasoning salt, and enough water to almost fill the pot almost to the top as shown below. Pretty much any combination of these will work as far as measurements. It’s hard to go wrong with this!

The instructions are quite simple: cook it until the chicken is done and the noodles are tender. LOL That’s it. It doesn’t take long; this whole meal cooks within about 30 minutes. I boil it for the first few minutes then cover it and let it simmer on low to med-low until it’s done. This is what you get in the end:

Until next time...



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