Oven Chicken and Rice Casserole
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Oven Chicken and Rice Casserole is a great one pot meal for dinner tonight. It’s an easy dinner idea that you prep and set in the oven while you work on homework, housework, or whatever. It makes the perfect kid friendly fall dinner too!
Roasted chicken rice
I love a one pot wonder that doesn’t fill the whole kitchen with dirty dishes. I also love me some comfort food. So this oven chicken and rice casserole fits the bill on both parts. I love to make a huge batch and have it for several dinners. It’s also good to freeze if you want to save some for later.
Making a casserole without cream soups that can be put in the oven when you get home from work is a great way to have meal prep done. And you can feel good about the ingredients, too, because you aren’t using all those chemicals. I love easy dinner ideas!
I like to use bone in chicken because it gives the dish more flavor, but if you have boneless, that works too. Thighs are the most flavorful, but you can use legs, breast, or whatever chicken parts you like. You can even cut up a whole chicken and use a variety.
Baked chicken and rice without canned soup
We try to avoid chemicals around here, so we don’t do canned cream of soups. This recipe is flavorful and so satisfying and it uses few ingredients without having to use those soups. And I guarantee the flavor is far better! Those soups don’t actually taste like much but salt.
This chicken and rice casserole is easy to throw together and pop in the oven with not much fussing about. And it can make and easy and Cheap Lunch Ideas for Daycare too.
Chicken and rice with thighs
Oven Chicken and Rice Casserole
Ingredients
- 5 Chicken thighs
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 1/2 cups rice
- 1 1/2 cups chicken stock
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Peel the onion and garlic and chop finely
- Mix salt and spices.
- In a 9 x 13 casserole dish, mix onion, garlic, rice and butter.
- Top with thighs.
- Sprinkle the spices on top.
- Add the stock and cover with foil.
- Bake for 35-45 minutes until chicken is 165 internally.
- Remove the foil, brush the chicken with oil and cook in the oven for another 10 minutes.
Nutrition
Rice is inexpensive and it makes a meal filling, so this meal doesn’t break the bank. We all need money saving ideas and chicken thighs are also less expensive than many other meats. Check out these other ideas for money saving meals:
- Garlic Honey Ninja Foodi Chicken Thighs
- Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Lemon Chicken Thighs
- Easy Frugal Family Dinners
- Chicken Fried Rice with Leftover Chicken
- Leftover Chicken: How to Cook a Whole Chicken to Make 3 Meals
- Sheet Pan Greek Chicken
For more ideas on make ahead meals that freeze well, check these out:
