Chicken Breast with Dirty Rice

  3.0 – 1 reviews  • Rice Recipes
Level: Easy
Total: 1 hr 20 min
Active: 50 min
Yield: 2 servings

Ingredients

  1. 3 cups chicken broth
  2. 1 cup long-grain white rice
  3. 2 cloves garlic, minced
  4. 1 bay leaf
  5. 1 small bundle thyme, tied with twine
  6. 1 tablespoon olive oil
  7. 1 rib celery, diced
  8. 1/2 onion, diced
  9. 1/2 green bell pepper, diced
  10. 1 pint chicken livers and hearts, cleaned, diced small
  11. 8 ounces andouille sausage, casings removed, crumbled
  12. 1 ear corn, shucked, kernels removed
  13. One 15.5-ounce can kidney beans, drained
  14. 2 teaspoons garlic powder
  15. 2 teaspoons paprika
  16. 1 teaspoon cayenne
  17. 1 teaspoon onion powder
  18. 1 teaspoon dried oregano
  19. 1 teaspoon dried thyme
  20. 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  21. Salt
  22. 2 scallions, thinly sliced on the bias
  23. 2 tablespoons olive oil
  24. 2 airline chicken breasts
  25. Kosher salt
  26. 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  27. 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
  28. 8 ounces green beans, trimmed

Instructions

  1. For the dirty rice: Combine 2 cups of the chicken broth and the rice, garlic, bay leaf and thyme bundle in a medium pot. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer until the rice is tender, about 15 minutes. Remove the bay leaf and thyme; fluff the rice.
  2. Heat the oil in a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Add the celery, onions and bell peppers and sweat the vegetables for about 5 minutes. Add the chicken hearts and livers, andouille and corn; cook until browned. Add the remaining 1 cup chicken broth and scrape the bottom of the pan to loosen any browned bits. Stir in the kidney beans. Add the garlic powder, paprika, cayenne, onion powder, oregano, thyme, red pepper flakes and 2 teaspoons salt. Simmer until the liquid reduces and everything is cooked through, about 10 minutes. Add the rice to the skillet and stir to combine. Remove from the heat. Sprinkle with the sliced scallions.
  3. For the chicken: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
  4. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large ovenproof saute pan over medium-high heat. Sprinkle the chicken breasts with salt all over and place them skin-side down in the pan. Sear both sides until golden brown. Add the butter and Worcestershire sauce and baste the chicken for a minute. With the breasts skin-side down, transfer the pan to the oven and cook until the internal temperature reads 160 degrees F, 10 minutes. Let rest for 5 minutes.
  5. Prepare an ice water bath in a bowl. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the green beans to the pot and cook until bright green, about 3 minutes. Remove the green beans and immediately shock them in the ice bath to stop cooking; drain. Heat the remaining tablespoon oil in a medium saute pan over medium heat. Add the green beans and cook until warmed through and tender.
  6. Serve the chicken with green beans and dirty rice.

Reviews

Jessica Rich
The chicken came out great, very yummy and different. The rice- dumped all the spices with the rice in the rice cooker. It came out ok, definitely a different taste palette than I’ve had before.

 

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