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Healthy Chicken and Rice Recipe

Healthy Chicken and Rice Recipe

Let me say that there is SO much you can add to this! When I make this again, and I will, there are several things that I will add. The reason why I didn’t this time is that I am “shelf” cooking. We desperately needed to go to the grocery, so I used what I had on hand.

I will put “optional” on each thing I will use next time. The recipe can be loaded up with veggies and goodness. There was one mistake that I made. I put the rice in raw, which did not cook well. This is a technique that I use with Easy Brunzi Baseball Casserole. That always works well. However, I had to add more chicken broth, cover, and cook it longer this time.

Lesson learned.

Healthy Chicken and Rice Casserole

Use 3 chicken breasts (I cooked these in 1 c. of water, with seasoning and minced onions in my instant pot). Once it was cooked, I cut it up into chunks. I used 1.5 c. of the chicken stock. Next time, I will use 2 cups of chicken stock.

In a big bowl, I put all my chicken, broth, 1 can of cream of chicken, a block of cream cheese, seasoning mix, 2 packets of the dry ranch, 1 c. rice (COOK THAT FIRST), and some cheddar.

Next time, I will add 1 steamed bag of cauliflower rice, possibly broccoli, fresh mushrooms, and chopped-up spinach. Oh, that would be so good.

I put all of that in a greased 13×9 dish. The topping was 2 sleeves of ritz crackers with some butter in them. I ran that through the food processor. Spread that over the top of the casserole and add a bit more cheddar.

Cook at 350 for 30 minutes, covered. Then, I uncovered it for about 20 minutes. It was delicious.

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Philly Cheesesteak Casserole

Philly Cheesesteak Casserole

Philly Cheesesteak Casserole

Here is a recipe for a Philly Cheesesteak Casserole with Rice. I love Philly Cheesesteaks, so a riff on this is good. Mixing things up is something I enjoy doing. As a bonus, it is low carb compared to its counterpart.

In my instant pot, I put in a Roast (you can use round steak or any other steak meat) and added about 2 cups of water. I splashed on Worcestershire sauce, about 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes, seasoning, Basil, and Italian Seasoning. I also put about 4 pats of butter on top just because I wanted to do that. It was frozen when I put it in, so I hit “roast,” and boy did it get done! It was so good.

I pulled that out and let it rest a bit, and in the juice, I added fresh mushrooms, 2 cut-up onions, 2 cut-up green peppers, and some minced garlic. I let that cook up till the veggies were tender.

While cooking, I sliced my roast into thin strips and added it to the veggies, letting that play in the juice for a while. I got my 13×9 baking dish sprayed, used a slotted spoon to get out the meat/veggies, and placed it in the dish. I layered that with swiss cheese.

Next Up

I put it in the oven at 350 for about 30 minutes.

Next, I poured the leftover juice into my regular instant pot (about 3 cups) and added 2 cups of water. I put in 5 c. of white rice and cooked it.

I served the cheesesteak over the rice.

Then I wanted to slap my mama 🙂