Name: Easy Chicken and Rice Casserole
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 1 min
Ingredients: Extra-virgin olive oil, for baking dish; 2 c. white rice, rinsed well and drained; 1 large onion, chopped; 2 c. low-sodium chicken broth; 2 (10.5-oz.) cans cream of mushroom soup; Kosher salt; Freshly ground black pepper; 4 large bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs (about 2 lb.); 2 tbsp. melted butter; 2 tsp. fresh thyme; 1 clove garlic, finely minced; 1 tbsp. Freshly chopped parsley, for garnish

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Easy Chicken and Rice Casserole

Extra-virgin olive oil,

c. white rice,

onion,

chicken broth

(10.5-oz.) cans cream of mushroom soup

Kosher salt

black pepper

bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs (about 2 lb.)

tbsp. butter

thyme

garlic, finely minced

tbsp. Freshly chopped parsley,

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On Friday, I made this recipe exactly to instructions except I used oil instead of butter and Campbell's Golden Mushroom Soup instead of Mushroom Soup. (My husband is allergic to anything containing milk.) 

My family liked it so much, they ate the leftovers for breakfast and begged me to serve it for dinner on Sunday--which is what I'm doing right now. Many thanks for posting this wonderful recipe. I plan to make it for the first dinner guests I have in when the pandemic is over and life returns to normal.

This worked out really well. I think it's a great base recipe that you could modify and make how you like in the future. Here are the changes I made: I did use three chicken thighs, but I also added some boneless, skinless breast filets because I wanted more chicken. I don't like mushroom very much, so I used one can of cream of mushroom and one can of cream of chicken. I accidentally forgot to cover it with foil for the first hour, so I ended up cooking it uncovered for almost an hour, cooking it covered with foil for 30 mins, then cooking another five minutes to try and re-crisp the chicken.
It turned out well. The rice cooked perfectly. I'm not sure why it didn't work for some people. I did use regular white rice as called for and I think my alterations were pretty minor. 
I like that in the future I can mix it up by adding whatever veggies I like to the rice and by seasoning the chicken however I want. 
This was super easy to make, and there was plenty of rice to accompany the extra chicken I added, so I have lots of leftovers.

This is my 2nd time using this recipe but I made one slight change. I season chicken (drumsticks and breast) with garlic and onion power, adobo, pepper, and paprika and I fried it to brown (not cook thru) on the stove before placing it in the rice mixture. Before when I broiled it afterwards the coloring still took longer so I just did that first on the stove in an iron skillet. Turned out great!

Made this tonight! It was very good, I used a 9x13 with 4 thighs but I will use 6 next time as the ratio of rice vs meat is off! I also sautéd my onions in 2T butter. I had to add 1/2 c more water as rice vs water was off as well. 
I use thermometer on meat and using the time here was off by 45 min to 1 hour to get chicken done to 165 degrees. 
We loved the taste of this dish and will make again with a few adjustments!

I always use Minute Rice in this recipe cream of chicken soup chicken broth thyme pepper salt grated onion and Sage Brown thighs put on top cover bake at 350 for an hour to an hour and a half depending on how many pieces of chicken you have in it. it will always come out perfect just pay attention to the amount of liquid you need to the amount of rice you add. If you use any other kind of rice you can pre-cook it.

I’m not sure why this recipe didn’t work for me, but it didn’t. There were parts of the casserole that had completely uncooked rice and other parts with totally overcooked rice. I’ve been cooking this dish for 2 hours and still no luck! Wouldn’t recommend.

<em> I made this for dinner last night per the recipe. I did add some mushrooms and celery as I had them on hand. I baked it 1hr at 350* covered and 30 minutes uncovered. I then added 10 minutes as the liquid wasn't absorbed enough. Flavors were great but the rice wasn't done. I used one cup of jasmine rice and  one cup of brown rice which shouldn't have made a difference.  Wondering what I could do different to get the rice to cook? Chicken breast were a bit over done in my opinion.</em>

Great dish ...I grabbed uncle bens rice 3 boxes (1 chicken rice, 1 four cheese rice, 1 chicken/broccoli rice) I browned the rice then mixed the rice & onion in dish with half the broth , mixed the other half broth and soup on stove then pour It in the  dish with rice....added pepper, and the rice seasoning packets (both chicken flavor season packet and cheese packet...I left out the chicken broccoli seasoning pack) stirred It up..and in a zip lock bag...seasoned boneless chicken thighs with a little butter/chicken broth, then mixed pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, A little herbbox chicken granulated  bouillon broth and badia complete seasoning in a bowl by whisk and poured It into the bag...mix the chicken/seasoning in bag then laid It over the rice....covered with foiled...baked covered for 40 mins then uncovered for 10-15 mins...DISH WAS VERY FLAVORFUL AND DELICIOUS!!!

I made 1/2 a recipe and added a small can of mushrooms to the rice. 
It was much better than I anticipated and we have enough of the rice left over for another meal. We had a side of brussel sprouts as well. It’s a lot of food for two seniors. I would make it again.

I made this tonight. It was wonderful! 
I didn't have any regular rice so I used instant.
I also used breasts instead of thighs...
I cooked it for one hour covered and threw some cheese on top for 15 min uncovered.
It was really good! I made a chicken casserole 
receipe before and it was so bland.....
Make it you wont be sorry!

I loved it! Didn't have fresh herbs, so used dried. Still tasted fantastic! Thanks so much.

The only thing I changed to this recipe was used chicken stock, 1/2 cup more than called for, yellow rice (all  had on hand) No mushrooms. Finely chopped onion. To the chicken I added powdered garlic and onion, oregano, and Cajun seasoning. Came out great.  2nd time I used same ingredients but added BBQ sauce on top of chicken. I used legs and thighs.  This also very good.  Hope this doesn't send Red Scissors over the edge.  Thanks for good recipe

Was looking for a quick dinner.  Couldn't be easier and my husband just loved it.  Almost like risotto.  Made it with a can of cream of chicken as well as a can of cream of mushroom soup.  Used a poached chicken breast I had on hand and shredded it.  
He asked for the leftovers the next night.  Just served with a salad on the side.

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Easy Chicken and Rice Casserole

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Total: 1 hours, 50 minutes

Servings: 4

Cost: $10.61 /serving

Author : Lena Abraham

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