One Pot Chicken and Rice with Artichokes
Aug 28, 2016, Updated Jul 08, 2021
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One Pot Chicken and Rice with Artichokes is a classic, delicious comfort food recipe made with chicken and rice. The artichokes add so much flavor and cooking everything in one pot makes it super easy!
Chicken and rice together make such a hardy meal. If you love the chicken rice combo, you’ve got to try this Chicken Rice and Vegetable Skillet, this recipe for Garlic Butter Chicken and Rice, and this super easy Slow Cooker Chicken and Rice Recipe.
One Of My Favorite Childhood Chicken Dinner Recipes
This is called: copying all my Mama’s recipes and updating/upgrading them a few notches. Thank you, Mom! Your food rocks!
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But HEEEEY YA! Happy Sunday! I got my coffee, my laptop, and a good ol’ lemon biscotti to keep me company. I am also giving a big huge high-five to my favorite artichoke-hearts-jarrers (that’s definitely not how you say it), Cara Mia!
First thing is first. If you haven’t noticed, clearly, we are kill.ing. it. over here in the chicken department. I have got so much chicken – breasts, thighs, legs, whole, or otherwise – and I guess that maybe has to do with the fact that I use it so much in my recipes. I have a gazillion chicken pieces in my freezer at all times. 2 freezers, to be completely honest.
What Is The Best Type Of Artichokes To Use For This Recipe?
But let me tell you about how I got to this recipe.
I had a jar of Cara Mia Marinated Artichoke Hearts, 2 thawed chicken thighs, and an almost-empty container with rice. What to do what to do? Flip back to your mom’s comfort-food recipes and get to work, that’s what.
And desperately loving your mom’s food? Major bonus! I mean, look at all my adaptations to her chicken and rice:
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That’s just a few…
And today’s One Pot Chicken and Rice with Artichokes is just as good as all of those! Tootin’ my own horn. If I don’t toot it, who will?! RIGHT?! right.
Personally, I think Cara Mia’s Marinated Artichoke Hearts should be added to every thing you make. The flavor, alone, is more than enough. They are crazy delicious, but also nutritious, and are gluten free, cholesterol free, trans fat free, sugar free. Told ya, it’s good stuff.
How to Make One Pot Chicken and Rice
This chicken rice combo starts with searing chicken pieces in STAR Extra Virgin Olive Oil for a nice and crispy texture. Not sure what you like to do, but I almost always will leave the skin on to cook the chicken, but when eating, I remove all of it. FYI: 1 chicken thigh with skin-ON is 150 calories, but without it, it’s 50 calories less, at the least.
Moving along, I then gave the rice and garlic a bit of a swim in the olive oil before adding the artichokes and popping it all in the oven for one last hurrah!
The result was a creamy, silky, flavor loaded dinner for 4 with a side of a big, humongous salad that no one touched. Everyone was too busy scraping up all that was left in the pan. Even our 7 year old that thinks mac ‘n cheese is LIFE!
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One Pot Chicken and Rice with Artichokes
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 4 chicken pieces,, (thighs, breast, legs, etc...)
- salt and fresh ground black pepper,, to taste
- 3 to 4 cloves garlic,, minced
- 1 cup long grain rice
- 1½ cups chicken broth
- 1 cup hot water
- 14.75 ounces jar of Cara Mia Marinated Artichoke Hearts, , drained
- ½ teaspoon dried Italian Seasoning
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400˚F.
- Heat olive oil in a cast iron skillet.
- Add chicken pieces and cook for 4 minutes per side over medium-high heat.
- Remove chicken from skillet and set aside.
- Add garlic to the skillet and stir for 10 to 15 seconds, or until fragrant.
- Stir in rice; stir for about 30 seconds. DON'T BURN THE RICE.
- Place prepared chicken pieces over rice, and add chicken broth and hot water.
- Arrange artichokes around the pan; season with Italian Seasoning and oregano, and bring to a boil.
- Carefully cover the skillet with aluminum foil and transfer to preheated oven.
- Cook for 30 minutes, or until most of the liquid is absorbed.
- Remove foil and continue to cook for 7 more minutes.
- Remove from oven, stir around to fluff up the rice, and serve.
Nutrition
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Ooh my yum! Soo good!!! Followed recipe but added chopped Roma tomato last 7 min. Then added feta cheese when plated. Will be making again & often. Easy too : )
Making tonight, thank you for the recipe.
I made this dinner tonight. Only I pre cooked my rice. I have found that if I dont pre cook the rice in other chicken and rice dinners that it turns out chrunchy. Other than that is well liked. We liked the artichoke .And I added cheese to it.Also we used Thigh meat and next time Im going to try breast meat. Delicious meal.
That’s great! I’m very glad you enjoyed it! Thank YOU! ๐
I have made this recipe many times with and without the artichokes. It is equally delicious both ways. It is one of my husband’s favorites. In fact I told him this morning I was making a different chicken dish today and he requested this.
I am very glad you and your husband enjoyed it! Thank you so much! ๐
I tried this recipe using white rice (I didnโt have long grain) and threw in a can of fire roasted tomatoes that I had on hand and it turned out wonderful! Thank you for the recipe!
How can you call it a “1 pot” dish when you use a skillet? 1 pot leads one to think stove top not oven..
I wonder how to pressure cook this recipe to make it even faster
Hi! I haven’t tried this in my pressure cooker, but I always use this site as a guide: https://www.pressurecookingtoday.com/how-to-convert-a-recipe-into-a-pressure-cooker-recipe/
I hope that helps.
Love this…I’ve made it several times an my only complaint is zero leftovers haha. I can’t seem to get the rice to cook all the way..I think I might be using the wrong one ( its still DELICIOUS but a little crunchy lol) what rice do you recommend and can i double the recipe?
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