One Pot Mushroom Chicken and Rice

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This one pot mushroom chicken and rice recipe is an easy one pot meal – flavourful chicken and mushrooms with rice, all cooked in the same pot!

One pot meals are the best. Mostly because it’s lovely when there is only one pot to wash after supper.

But also because everything for your meal is there in one pot. No decisions to make on side dishes.

Also, no making side dishes. Just one pot. It’s the best.

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Although this one doesn’t have a ton of veggies in it, so you might still want a salad or steamed veggies on the side.

But that’s easy. No thought or actual cooking required. And not even totally necessary if you don’t feel like making anything else.

This one pot mushroom chicken and rice is one of the best one pot meals I’ve made yet.

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The kids wouldn’t agree with that.

How to make One Pot Mushroom Chicken and Rice:

I have this large non-stick skillet that I love to use for one pot meals like this. It’s the perfect size to have lots of room for browning the chicken, has a lid, is perfectly non-stick, and washes up really easily.
I’ve also made this recipe using 4 chicken legs with the back attached, so that’s an option if you like, although we did prefer the skin on, bone-in chicken thighs for this recipe.
If you would like your rice to be creamier, you can make it with a little more cream and a little less chicken broth. We found a 1/4 cup of cream was the right amount to make the rice a bit creamy, but felt more than that was a bit too much. It’s an option if you don’t find it creamy enough with 1/4 cup though.

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Yield: serves 6

This one pot mushroom chicken and rice recipe is an easy one pot meal - flavourful chicken and mushrooms with creamy rice, all cooked in the same pot!

Prep Time15 minutes

Cook Time1 hour

Total Time1 hour 15 minutes

Ingredients

2 teaspoons olive oil
6-8 bone-in, skin on, chicken thighs
6-8 medium button mushrooms, sliced
1 medium onion, diced
5-6 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon dried parsley
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 cups low sodium chicken broth
1/4 cup heavy cream (35%, whipping cream)
1 cup long grain white rice

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large oven safe skillet with a lid, heat the olive oil over medium heat on the stove.
Season the chicken thighs with salt and pepper, and add them to the pan. Brown the chicken, about 4-5 minutes per side. The chicken won’t be cooked through.
Remove the chicken from the pan and and drain any excess grease, leaving a teaspoon or two in the pan.
Add the mushrooms, onions and garlic to the pan and cook, stirring, for 4-5 minutes, or until they are softened.
Add the parsley, thyme, salt, and pepper and stir to combine.
Add the chicken broth, cream, and rice and stir. Bring the liquid to a simmer (steaming with small bubbles forming along the edges of the pot, but not quite boiling).
Place the chicken on top of the rice and put the lid on the skillet.
Place the skillet in the preheated oven and bake for 35 minutes. Remove the lid and continue baking for another 10 minutes with the lid off, or until the rice is tender.

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How to make One Pot Mushroom Chicken and Rice:

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