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Rice w Chicken
Melt 1 stick butter in 9x13 pan
Add 1 box Uncle Ben's rice & 1 Cup minute Rice (no idea why we need to mix and match but OKAY)
Add 1 can French Onion & 1 Can Beef Consomme Soup or Beef Broth
Can of mushrooms if prefer
Add only 1 can water. Top with Chicken and bake 1 hr @ 350 degrees.
Boom. Now for this one, I don't have all the ingredients on hand. I'm not going to the store either, so I'm going to make due with what I got, which means one substitution (packet of onion soup instead of a can of the Campbell's french onion) and just going without mushrooms. Which sucks cuz I like mushrooms. Also I guess I have neither of those kinds of rice, but I have a random container of rice next to the stove and some kind of boil bag jasmine rice. Lets keep to the spirit of the recipe and mix 'em up and see what happens. Oh yeah, I'm assuming this is for a full package of chicken, which is a couple pounds, but I'm only using it with one large breast chopped in half.
The cast:
Start with melting the butter in the pan. I'm going with a short bus pan since I'm not doing a whole package of chicken. I tossed in the beef consomme soup too, no rhyme or reason. We're doing this on the fly here.
I was using the microwave to melt the butter. I bumped the pan pulling it out and liquid splashed everywhere and I made a mess. Maybe I shouldn't have added the beef consomme just yet.
Throw in the packet of onion soup mix and an empty can's worth of water to count for the can of french onion soup that I didn't have. This isn't really halving the recipe, but I'm going to leave out the additional can of water the recipe calls for. I am probably going to have too much liquid but we'll see how much the rice soaks up. I can always pour off the excess.
Add in the rice, I don't need it in the boil bag, so I went ahead and cut it open and bombs away.
Place chicken on top, throw in the oven at 350 degrees and find something to do for an hour.
So much for excess, that cooked up perfectly!
