Best Southern Chicken And Yellow Rice Recipes

EASY CHICKEN AND YELLOW RICE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• Bring water and chicken bouillon to a boil in a large skillet. Add chicken breasts and bell pepper; simmer over medium heat until chicken is no longer pink in the center, about 20 minutes. Remove chicken and pour remaining broth into a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Stir rice, plus the included seasoning packet, and olive oil into broth. Arrange chicken breast over rice and season with black pepper and poultry seasoning.
• Bake in the preheated oven until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender, about 45 minutes. Fluff rice with a fork before serving.

YBOR CITY CHICKEN AND YELLOW RICE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325, and put the saffron in the hot water to "bloom.".
• Coat the chicken pieces in oil, salt and pepper, and bake about 30 minutes, or until they reach 165.
• Melt the butter In a large oven safe skillet.
• Add the onion and pepper and saute until the onion is translucent.
• Add the rice. Stir the rice around in the oil with the onion and pepper until it starts to take on a slight golden color.
• Add the chicken stock, saffron and its water, salt, and bay leaf.
• Place rice skillet in oven, and bake until all the water is absorbed.
• Cook the peas, just until hot, and still crisp.
• To serve, you can either leave the chicken pieces whole and serve on a bed of rice, or tear the chicken into small pieces and mix with rice. both are good. Either way, rice goes on the bottom, then peas, then chicken, then roasted peppers. It makes a colorful, impressive stack of yummy.