Aromatic one-pan chicken and rice that comes together effortlessly within 25 minutes. Add this to your weekly dinner rotation!

Total Time: 22

Prep Time: 2

Cook Time: 20

2 servings

RECIPE

Make this One Pan Spiced Chicken and Rice Recipe on busy days when you are craving a flavorful but comforting dish after a long day at work.

Easy mouthwatering and only 25-minute weeknight meal for two.

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❔ Why you need to make this Chicken and Rice
🔪 How to make Chicken and Rice?
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I always believed that rice and chicken are meant to be!

These two ingredients go hand in hand, and you can make so many versions of flavorful dishes with just chicken and rice as the main ingredients.

In fact, there are a couple of reasons why chicken and rice make a great weeknight dinner meal on busy days.

❔ Why you need to make this Chicken and Rice

is prepared and cooked in less than 20 minutes
doesn't have any veggies that need to be cut small = saving you time
you can prepare it in one pot, which in turn...
reduces your work in terms of time consumed preparing a meal from scratch
the chicken flavors get sucked in by the rice which I think makes the dish all the more interesting
the rice acts like a blanket around the chicken which keeps the meat moist and tender.
can be prepared in a way where you can use it with common ingredients that you have at home
the aroma of the dish smells divine in the whole house!
I pepped it up by adding Indian spices to enhance the aroma of the chicken and rice. You are going to love it!

This chicken and rice is a yellow rice complete meal dish.

So even if you make more and you have leftover, you can enjoy the next day round too by warming it up again.

I tend to stir fry the chicken and rice if there has been a left over, as this gives the dish another flavor edge.

🔪 How to make Chicken and Rice?

This chicken and rice recipe is flavorfully enhanced with spices, yet it is not hot in terms of chili heat.

So it's suitable for a family with kids.

To make this yellow one-pot chicken and rice from scratch, you will need rice and chicken as main ingredients and a couple of spices as well as butter, tomato sauce and vegetable stock or water mixed with a Maggi cube.

For the Rice, pick Basmati rice as it has a lovely aromatic touch to it, which goes well with the chicken in this dish.

For the Chicken, pick meat with bone.

Boneless chicken meat tends to over cook and get tough in this dish and doesn't lend the dish the desired end result flavor.

In that case pick Chicken drumsticks as you can easily pick the drumsticks out of the rice to eat.

To cook this one-pot dish I recommend you using a cooking pot utensil such as a Chinese Wok, an Indian Kadai pan or an all-purpose pan such as this one here.

I recommend using these pans because the heat is spread out evenly while cooking the dish and you tend to save time cooking this way.

The steps to prepare the one-pot chicken and rice are simple, as you can easily see in the video.

Fry the onions with butter and your spices later as well