Best Florentine Rice Recipes

CHICKEN FLORENTINE RICE CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a medium saucepan, boil 2 cups water and chicken bouillon. Stir in rice. Remove from heat, and set aside. In a small bowl, mix cornstarch with remaining water.
• Heat olive oil in a medium skillet over medium heat. Place chicken in skillet with thyme, sage, basil, parsley, and marjoram. Cook until chicken is no longer pink and juices run clear. Drain and cube.
• Stir onion into the skillet, and cook 5 minutes, or until browned and tender.
• In a large bowl, thoroughly mix rice, cornstarch mixture, chicken, onion, spinach, and cottage cheese.
• Transfer the mixture to a medium baking dish. Season with salt and pepper. Top with Parmesan cheese, and dot with margarine. Bake, covered, 45 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove cover, and continue baking 15 minutes, until surface is lightly browned.

FLORENTINE RICE

Steps:

• In a skillet, saute red pepper in butter until tender. Stir in the spinach, onion, garlic, rosemary and pepper; cook until spinach is wilted. Stir in the rice, Parmesan cheese and pine nuts; cook for 1-2 minutes or until heated through.

TIM HORTON'S STYLE TOMATO FLORENTINE RICE SOUP

Steps:

• Bring the tomato juice and broth to a boil in a large pot.
• Lower the temperature and simmer for about 60 - 75 minutes or until the liquid is reduced to about half of the original amount.
• Add spinach, garlic, lemon juice and spices and bring to a boil, then lower heat & simmer for 20 minutes. Remove bay leaves.
• Add rice and simmer for 10 minutes. Serve hot.

BROWN RICE FLORENTINE

Steps:

• Heat butter in saucepan over medium-high heat until just beginning to sizzle.
• Add onion, and saute until softened.
• Add rice and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until rice is lightly browned in places and beginning to get translucent.
• Remove from heat, and gradually stir in chicken stock or water.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper, return to heat, and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for about 40 minutes.
• Add spinach, stir thoroughly and continue cooking for another 10 minutes or until all liquid is absorbed.
• Serve hot.

CHICKEN -RICE FLORENTINE

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a lage skillet until crisp; drain, reserving 1 tablespoon of drippings in skillet. Crumble bacon, and set aside.
• Add chicken and onion to reserved drippings; cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until chicken is done.
• Add 3/4 cup water and next 4 ingredients.
• Bring to a boil; stir in rice. Cover and remove from heat, and let stand 5 minutes or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender.
• Stir in bacon and cheese.

TOMATO FLORENTINE RICE SOUP

Steps:

• Bring the tomato juice & broth to a boil in a large pot; lower the temperature & simmer for about 60 - 75 minutes or until the liquid is reduced to about half of the original amount.
• Add spinach, garlic, lemon juice& spices; bring to a boil, then lower heat& simmer for 20 minutes.
• Remove bay leaves, add rice and simmer for 10 minutes.

TIM HORTON'S STYLE TOMATO FLORENTINE RICE SOUP

Steps:

• Bring the tomato juice and broth to a boil in a large pot.
• Lower the temperature and simmer for about 60 - 75 minutes or until the liquid is reduced to about half of the original amount.
• Add spinach, garlic, lemon juice and spices and bring to a boil, then lower heat & simmer for 20 minutes. Remove bay leaves.
• Add rice and simmer for 10 minutes. Serve hot.

RICE FLORENTINE

Steps:

• Add water and soup in a medium saucepan.
• Stir until well blended.
• Bring to a boil.
• Stir in the rice and spinach leaves.
• Cover.
• Remove from heat and let stand 5 minutes.
• Stir gently and serve.

FISH WITH FLORENTINE RICE

Steps:

• Set rice seasoning packet aside. In a large skillet, saute rice mix in butter. Add the water, spinach and contents of seasoning packet. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Top with the fish fillets. , Cover and simmer for 5-10 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork. Sprinkle with almonds.

FLORENTINE WILD RICE STUFFING IN ROASTED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350° F. In medium saucepan, sauté onion, garlic and basil in butter or margarine 5-7 minutes. Add water; bring to boil. Add rice and contents of seasoning packet. Reduce heat. Cover and simmer 20-25 minutes or until liquid is absorbed. Cool slightly. Combine rice mixture with spinach, ricotta or cottage cheese, egg, Parmesan cheese, red bell pepper, parsley, salt and pepper. Place stuffing into cleaned chicken. Secure ends with toothpicks or skewers. Place on rack in preheated oven. Roast for 1-1/2 hours or until juice runs clear when chicken is pricked with a fork. *Double recipe to stuff a 12 lb. turkey. (See turkey package directions for temperature and roasting times.)

CHICKEN AND RICE FLORENTINE

Steps:

• Bring broth to a boil in a medium saucepan. Add rice, seasing blends, and chicken; stir. Cover, reduce heat to low ans simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand 5 minutes. Add spinach and stir until wilted. Serve topped with Parmesan cheese.

CREAM OF CHICKEN AND RICE FLORENTINE

Steps:

• In a dutch oven, heat oil over medium-high heat, reduce heat to medium. Add chicken; cook for 12-15 minutes or until no longer pink turning once halfway through cooking. Transfer chicken to a plate to cool. When cool enough to handle, use two forks to pull chicken apart into coarse shreds.
• Meanwhile, add onions, mushrooms, carrot and garlic to dutch oven; cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in rice; cook 1 minute more. Add broth, water, 1/2 teaspoons pepper and the nutmeg. Bring to boiling; reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 15 minutes.
• In a small bowl stir together one can of the evaporated milk and the flour; stir into mixture in dutch oven. Stir in the remaining can of milk. Cook and stir until bubbly.
• Stir in spinach and the shredded chicken. Simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in lemon peel and lemon juice. To serve, ladle soup into bowls and sprinkle with additional black pepper, if desired.

DIJON RICE FLORENTINE

Steps:

• Bring broth and garlic to boil in medium saucepan on high heat.
• Add rice; stir. Reduce heat to low; cover. Cook 10 min. Add spinach and mustard; stir. Cook, uncovered, an additional 8 to 10 min. or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender.
• Stir in cheese.

15 MINUTE CHICKEN & RICE FLORENTINE

Steps:

• Heat oil in large nonstick skillet on medium-high heat. Add chicken; cover. Cook 4 min. on each side or until cooked through. Remove chicken from skillet.
• Add water, soup and nutmeg to skillet; stir. Bring to boil.
• Stir in rice, spinach and cheese. Top with chicken; cover. Reduce heat to low; cook 5 min.

SALMON WITH RICE-FLORENTINE

Steps:

• In mixing bowl, combine rice, spinach, cream cheese, Tabasco- if using -butter, cheese, garlic, and egg.
• Blend thoroughly.
• Add a little mayo, if needed to make a creamy, but stiff mixture. (Needs to hold together well.)
• Dry fillets.
• Place enough mixture on fillets, to ½" thick-- spreading evenly. CAREFUL NOT TO OVERFILL.
• Starting with short side, roll up tightly. Place in dish with seam side down; refrigerate about 2 hours to set filling. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 400 dgrees F.
• Remove salmon rolls to cutting board. With a very sharp knife, cut each roll in half to form rolls about 2" thick.
• Place all 4 rolls in lightly sprayed baking dish; cover with foil and bake for about 25 minutes until salmon flakes.
• Remove foil; dot tops with butter and place under broiler until light golden.
• Serve hot.