Here are two quick and easy chicken/rice combo recipes:
Honey-Mustard Chicken
Ingredients:
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (1 lb.)
1 T. oil
1 can cream of chicken soup
¼ cup milk (or water)
1 T. honey
1 T. spicy brown mustard
4 thin orange (or lemon) slices
Hot cooked rice
Fry chicken in oil over medium heat for 10 minutes. Spoon off fat, then stir in soup, milk, honey and mustard. Place an orange slice on top of each breast. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 5 minutes.
Serve over rice.
Five-Can Mexican Chicken
Ingredients:
3 lbs. chicken pieces
2-14 oz. cans Mexican-style stewed tomatoes
1-4 oz. can diced green chilies
1-5 oz. can pinto beans, drained
1-17 oz. can whole kernel corn, drained
Hot cooked rice
Put the chicken in a 9” x 13” baking dish. Pour all cans over chicken. Season to taste. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 1 and ½ hours.
Serve over rice.
6 servings
And here’s a few chicken and rice facts to ponder over:
Chickens have been domesticated for at least 4,000 years.
Rice has been produced in what is now the U.S. for more than 300 years.
More than half of all chicken orders in restaurants are for fried chicken.
The average American eats over 80 pounds of chicken each year. .
More than 90% of the rice consumed in the U.S. is grown in the U.S.
U.S. rice is in high demand around the world.
The U.S. is one of the largest exporters of rice (about 14%).
In early Roman times, grains of wheat were tossed at the bride, because it was wheat, not rice, that symbolized fertility. Young girls scrambled for the wheat grains that fell off the bride, similar to today’s bouquet tossing. Under Queen Elizabeth’s reign, wheat tossing stopped; the grain was baked into small cakes, which guests crumbled and tossed over the bride’s head. Later in time, a large wheat cake was baked and eaten, not tossed. This left wedding guests empty-handed (And the wheat cakes were expensive!). The alternate choice was cheap, clean, white rice; a new and enduring tradition was born.
The average hen lays 255 eggs per year.
If you ever come across a green chicken liver, DO NOT EAT IT! The color’s due to bile retention (Yechh!). You CAN eat that same chicken meat, however. But would you want to after seeing that green chicken liver?
South Carolina was the first state to produce rice.
Rice has no cholesterol, fat or sodium.
Rice grows once a year.
Beijing, China has the world’s largest Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.
Some breeds of chickens can actually lay eggs in shades of green and blue (The Ameraucana and the Araucana, depending on the breed and ancestry).
Chimneys used to be cleaned by dropping live chickens down them.
The closest living relative of the t-rex is the chicken (Amazing!). Kind of makes you look at a chicken with new respect, doesn’t it?
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