Oven Baked Chicken and Rice
A Chicken and Rice recipe. It totally caught me by surprise.
Not to undermine my own recipe, because really, if the juicy seasoned
chicken with its crispy skinless skin doesn’t get you then
the buttery garlicky rice certainly will.
Ingredients
- 5 chicken thigh fillets , bone in, skin OFF (Note 1)
- 1 onion , chopped (brown, white or yellow)
- 2 cloves garlic (large) , minced
- 2 tbsp/ 30 g butter (or olive oil)
- 1 1/2 cups / 270 g long grain white rice (Note 3)
- 1 1/2 cups / 375 ml chicken broth/stock
- 1 1/4 cups / 312 ml water, hot (tap is fine)
CHICKEN RUB (NOTE 2):
- 1 tsp paprika powder
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
- Black pepper
OPTIONAL GARNISH:
- Fresh thyme leaves or finely chopped parsley
