🍚 Quick Chicken and Tomato Rice

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Rice cooked with diced chicken and tomato sauce in a single pot. The weeknight dish that never fails.

⏱️ 25 min🍽️ 2 servings👩‍🍳 Easy🔥 579 calories per serving💪 41 g protein per serving

Ingredients

  • 10.5 oz (300 g) chicken breast
  • 3/4 cup uncooked (about 5.75 oz) rice
  • 3/4 cup (about 7 oz) tomato sauce
  • 2 tsp (about 11 ml) olive oil
  • to taste salt

How to make it, step by step

  1. Cut the chicken into cubes and brown it in a pot with the oil and salt over high heat for 3 minutes.
  2. Add the rice and stir for 1 minute so it picks up the flavor.
  3. Add the tomato sauce and twice as much water (1 1/3 cups, 320 ml). Bring to a boil.
  4. Lower the heat, cover and cook 18 minutes until the rice absorbs the liquid. Serve.

Nutrition facts (per serving)

579
calories
41 g
protein
66 g
carbs
11 g
fat

Values are approximate.

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