When I was growing up one of my favorite meals that my mom made was baked chicken, cooked on top of rice mixed with cream of mushroom soup. But I don’t like to cook with cream soups, because they have so much fat and sodium. So this is a healthier version of that meal, using tomatoes instead of cream soup and adding more vegetables.
It is a great school year meal because I can put it together and let it bake while I take kids to dance or soccer, since the hands on time is short. Plus there are enough vegetables in the rice that all you need to add to it is a green salad for a complete meal. I prefer to make this with chicken thighs, because I think chicken breasts get too dried out in the amount of time it takes to cook the rice.
Baked Chicken with Rice and Tomatoes
Ingredients
- 1 cup rice
- 1 can diced tomatoes undrained
- 1 1/2 cup water
- 1 onion chopped
- 1 red pepper chopped
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 1 teaspoon parsley
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 pepper
- 4 boneless skinless chicken thighs
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Mix all the ingredients except the chicken together and spread in a 9×12 baking dish.
- Add chicken on top and sprinkle with a little additional salt, pepper and parsley.
- Cover tightly with foil and bake for 40 minutes.
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Nutrition Information
Nutrition facts are estimates.
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Mix all the ingredients except the chicken together and spread in a 9×12 baking dish.
- Add chicken on top and sprinkle with a little additional salt, pepper and parsley.
- Cover tightly with foil and bake for 40 minutes.
This looks wonderful! I have been looking for something “new to me” to try and this fits the bill! Thanks for sharing!
My husband loves macaroni and tomatoes. I bet he would love rice and tomatoes, too. 🙂 This looks good, thanks for posting!
Dawn
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This is definitely something new for us and I’m sure my guys would love it! Too bad us girls don’t like tomatoes (but it looks delicious!)
Yummy. And not a big tomato fan – but this looks good tho – or maybe i’m hungry!
I love this!! Thank you. I make this all the time. I can use the healthier version. Great ideas!
yum!! thanks for sharing
That looks good thanks!
I love tomatoes and that looks really good. I will have to give it a try this week. Thanks!
I love chicken and rice so this sounds YUMMY!
Looks great, such a simple and easy dish, love those!
This sounds so good I’m actually adding it directly to my shopping list for this week! Yummy!
That looks super yummy!
Sounds like an easy dinner to make! Thanks!
I love how easy this looks. I don’t really care for cooking (Baking? Yes. Cooking? No.) so anything easy has my name on it!
Great thing to do as well is, season chicken with salt, pepper and garlic. Brown both sides of chicken and then bake. Makes it much more flavorful. Plus, I use the Italian seasoned canned tomatoes. So good