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 15-minute weeknight meal for two.
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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!
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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.
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🔪 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 paste 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
👁️ More Rice Recipes
- Egg Fried Rice
- Lemon Rice
- Cilantro Rice
- Aromatic Rice
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Dear Reader, did you try to modify this one-pot chicken and rice recipe? What was your food discovery, share it with us in the comments below!
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📖 Recipe
One Pan Spiced Chicken and Rice
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon Butter
- 1 Bay Leaf
- ¼ Teaspoon Black Pepper Ground
- ¼ Teaspoon Cinnamon Ground
- ½ Teaspoon Turmeric Ground
- ¼ Teaspoon Red Chili Pepper Ground optional
- ½ Teaspoon Coriander Seeds Ground
- ¼ Teaspoon Cumin Seeds Ground
- 1 Onion sliced
- 2 Cloves Whole
- ¼ Teaspoon Garam Masala optional
- 1 Tablespoon Ginger + Garlic
- 1 Tablespoon Tomato Sauce
- 2 Chicken Drumsticks
- 1 ⅓ Cup Uncooked Rice
- 3 Cups Water mixed with concentrated Stock
- Pinch Salt
- Cilantro Fresh to garnish
Instructions
- In a shallow big pan add the butter and stir fry the spices, bay leaf, black pepper, cinnamon, turmeric, chili, coriander and cumin for a minute. Then add the sliced onion and continue stir-frying until they get a bit soft.
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- Throw in the cloves and garam masala and add the ginger garlic paste and tomato paste as well and stir-fry for a minute.
- Pour in your rice and mix briefly over a medium heat setting. Then place your chicken into the pan and cook on both sides for a 2–3 minutes to sear the meat a bit.
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- Then add in the veg stock and some salt to taste. Mix the content well and let cook on slow heat covered for about 10-15 minutes or until the rice is cooked fully and the chicken is well cooked and tender.
- Serve hot if you want with some garnish such as fresh cilantro.
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So if you reread this when do you add the rice ?
Also step 3 cook chicken on both sides fo ??????
Hi James, thanks for pointing this out, the recipe card system had a technical issue. I fixed it out! Rice is added with the chicken in step 3 and I completed the missing words. 🙂 Sorry for the inconvenience!
Love a one pot meal! So quick and easy! Thanks for the share
I love yellow rice, I think the color always makes the entree look even more yummy. You had me at easy:)
I **need** more one-pot recipes in my life. Thanks for sharing!
That is a tasty, simple, quick recipe to make on weekdays. Although I am vegetarian, I would make it for my family and they would all love it!
Love this! Such a great recipe for weeknight dinners. Especially love that it's a one-pot recipe!
This would make a delicious dinner for a busy school night.
Wow this looks delicious! I love one pot meals, so easy for weeknight dinners.
I looooooooove chicken and rice. It's was a regular recipe in my home growing up but using other flavors.I really would love to try it using the flavors in your recipe. It sounds delicious!
I’m always looking for a quick week night recipe. This one is different and looks easy!
I always love a one pot meal, especially when it only takes 20 minutes. Chicken and rice are always perfect together, and this dish sounds so flavorful with the seasonings that you used.
This looks so good - I have always wanted to make it!
I make this biryani quite often, with lots of herbs and enjoy it with plain yogurt.
I LOVE one pot dishes! this one looks super flavorful and creamy. I've gotta try it
Oh one pot meals are my fav!Cant tell you how much i live on them.recipe is perfect!
Love all the flavors going on here, especially the lime! Beautiful color too. 😉
This recipe is looks amazing, and I love that it is made in one pan. I think it's amazing how the process of browning the spices before adding the other ingredients intensifies the flavors. In my home, growing up, we never did this, but an Indian neighbor showed me how, and I love it.
This looks great. Yes, I feel the same way - chicken and rice go together like peas & carrots! 😀
I love all the spices used in this recipe. It looks delicious and nice and easy to prepare!
I agree. Chicken and rice are meant to go together.
My husband loves chicken and rice dishes. The interesting combination of herbs and spices here will be a new flavor sensation! And the ease of preparation is a definite plus!
a combination that always works - chicken rice is always the perfect comfort food
I love one pot meals. They make life so much easier! This one looks amazingly delicious 🙂
I love chicken and rice pilau. Perfect for busy days. Love the color of the turmeric in this too. I bet it smelled wonderful
OMG this looks so good. If people would only try making quick, delicious food like this....takeout restaurants would be out of business. Perfect for all the busy weeknights.
You know, I can not cook rice, it’s just can’t seem to master it. Oh, but how I love eating it. This right here might be my saving grace - definitely going to give it a try.
This one pot chicken and rice recipe look delicious and easy to prepare. I will definitely try this recipe for our dinner.
Thanks for sharing, I always like simple recipe especially always busy working & rushing with time to prepare home cook meals 🙂 cheers, siennylovesdrawing
Love your photo's this looks yum yum. One pot meals are so warm and easy during the cold times of the year.
This chicken and rice recipe reminds me of Indian recipe known as 'Biryani'. It looks incredibly delicious and easy to make!
Yes however it's not a Biryani 🙂
This looks delicious and so easy to make! I need to try making this!
I am never good when it comes to cooking, but this looks like something I could easily learn! Thanks for this great idea.
That's one thing that it looks delicious, but that it is also prepared in less than 20 minutes! That's the perfect recipe for me! 😀
Making it tomorrow! :))) Thanks for sharing it so on time for me - just a recipe I needed.
Being vegetarian I will not be able to cook and taste this recipe but certainly my non veg friends will relish lot.
This is my goto meal. so easy and healthy and so delicious! But second one I must try soon. Thanks
This sounds like a very yummy and easy recipe to make. I never thought of adding the chicken in the same pot as the rice and then use spices to flavour it. I might do this on the evenings when I go to the gym and I am not in the mood to cook for a long time when I come back.
This looks like such a great family dinner night. I love that it's one pot.
If there was a perfect couple in the world of food, that would be chicken and rice, that's for sure! The recipe is awesome and it reminds of some good times I had a few years ago travelling. Thank you very much for sharing it!
This looks delicious! I'm pretty sure that my family would love it! It would be perfect for our dinner this coming weekend!
That looks easy, simple yet filled with flavors and just delicious. I am going to be trying this recipe tomorrow.
This dish is something I'd LOVE to try! I love one pot meals, and rice/chicken area always an easy favorite. We really like Basmati rice, too. It's so aromatic and cooks up wonderfully.
I was raised on chicken and rice (arroz con pollo) in Panamå and I have to say I love the combination of flavors in your dish! Thanks for sharing a great recipe! I can't wait to try it.
I love rice dishes. I am not big on chicken or meat for that matter but my husband would love this. Will go in my Pinterest board of dishes to try.
I am sure it will taste delicious. Since I am a vegetarian, I will try making it with either veggies or paneer ( a kind of cheese).
This looks absolutely delicious! I love rice and you can do so much with it! I just left work and I am super hungry so I might give this recipe a go tonight!
This looks so delicious. I’m gonna try it
This sounds and looks delicious. I will defo be trying this one day.
One pot meals are my favorite for several reason, The eas of them, the lack of dishes and the usually cook relatively quickly. Being a mother of 4 and two of them being in sports I'm always looking for quick and healthy. I'm going to add this to my folder on of one pot meals because it looks tasty.
I'm definitely adding this to my dinner plan this week. I just found some frozen chicken drumsticks I had forgotten about in my freezer and wasn't sure what I was going to do with them, so this is perfect timing!
I love one pot meals... such a life-saver for weeknights! This looks so flavorful.
One pot meals are life! Thanks for this recipe, saving for later:)
Pinned to my 'one pan' meals board! Love it!
Chicken and rice is both mine and my kid's favorite meal, they can have it any time of the day. This recipe sounds so good and looks delicious, I am going to try this out.
Chicken and rice is such a classic combination and the spices in this recipe really stand out! Lovely dish.
YUM!!! this looks soo good! I could eat the whole thing!
I love meals that are simple but with lots of flavor. This looks like one I would love!
OMG! this One-Pot Chicken and Rice look tempting and yummy. Will definitely try this recipe for my family and they will love this for sure.
This is so delicious looking and your pictures for it make looks so pretty. Definitely gonna try it soon and thank you for sharing 🙂
I love the chicken and rice dish, it sounds amazing! I am all for quick one pot meals when I have to work. This looks like it would be so hearty and warming on a cold winter night!
The vegetarian version of this would be Dal Khichadi - one pot rice and lentil dish. I was surprised that recently it was pitched as the national dish of India. Although all of us in India eat it, especially when one is not well, but pretty much no one really likes it. It is often called the 'sick person diet'.
Can you replace the chicken with some vegetables and still have the same recipe?
You can replace the chicken with vegetable but then the end result and recipe would be something completely else. As a vegetarian, you can try to use cauliflower for instance, as it would go well with the rice. 🙂
Yumm yumm! Aptly seeing it at lunch time..looks so good! We usually cook chicken in the cooker but wok is a good option too! A favorite is the onion pickle along with it
Nigeria, where I come from there's a similar rice that is famously called Jollof rice. It's almost made this way but with little variation like frying the chicken in hot oil. Thanks for this new recipe.
Yellow rice is always a hit in my house, so I can't wait to try this! It's a bit of a different spice blend but sounds just so tasty!
I agree with you, Chicken and rice are meant to be together, in a yellow sauce
This rice is such a pretty color. It looks so flavorful and comforting. Great recipe!
I love the sound of this, your photos are so helpful too, saving this for later!
I am a fan of quick one pot meals. This looks really tasty!
Chicken rice is a one post dish that is often my go to on busy weekdays. Nothing beats a quick meal like rice. Love the flavors you have here and the color of the turmeric is always so pretty