Recipe: Appetizing One-pot chicken pilaf

One-pot chicken pilaf. Instant Pot Rice Pilaf recipe loaded with chicken and vegetables is perfect healthy comfort food for a crowd that is easy to make. If you own an Instant Pot, you already appreciate its ability to cook delicious meals in short period of time. This fabulous One Pot Chicken Rice Pilaf is a healthy, wholesome, nutritious and delicious dish to make for your family and friends.

Humble, rustic, scrumptious weeknight One-Pot Chicken and Rice Pilaf, you say? Yes, I'm very much down widdat. As the rice cooks the flavors and juices from the chicken seep down into the rice and create the most delicious rice pilaf. You can cook One-pot chicken pilaf using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of One-pot chicken pilaf

1. Prepare 1 of chicken thigh (per person).
2. Prepare 1 of medium chilli, thinly slixed.
3. You need 1/2 of lemon, quartered and thinly sliced (skin on).
4. You need 3 cloves of garlic.
5. Prepare 1 of one long red pepper, thinly sliced.
6. Prepare 3 of plum tomatoes, sliced.
7. It's Handful of cherry tomatoes.
8. Prepare 1 bunch of corriander.
9. You need 125 ml of water or chicken stock.
10. It's 200 g of coarse cracked wheat.

Very few One-Pot-Meals are actually a complete meal. Usually they are carb and/or meat heavy so to balance it out, you need a salad on the side. This Chicken and Vegetable Rice is a pilaf loaded with vegetables so it truly is dinner made in one pot with an "A" grade nutrition rating. In particular, I've really been really getting into one pot rice dishes lately, inspired by Indian Biryanis and Middle Eastern Pilafs.

One-pot chicken pilaf instructions

1. Lightly salt the chicken, and then place into large sauce pan, on a low heat. Cook for 20 minutes and then turn and cook for another 5..
2. Put chicken to one side, and gently fry the chilli, lemon and garlic. Then increase eat and add the peppers to the pan with tomatoes and soften, taking care not to burn. After about 5 minutes, tomatoes start to fall apart. Add cherry tomatoes and return chicken then sprinkle herbs and add stock/water. Reduce heat and add lid allowing some steam to escape for 15 mins..
3. Add the wheat, bring to a boil and then set aside with lid on. Leave for 15 mins and then serve..

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