Four Cheese Chicken & Rice
Cheese✔ Chicken✔ Cheese✔ Rice✔ Cheese✔ Broccoli✔ Cheese✔ This recipe really does check all the boxes!
Ingredients
- 1½ lb Chicken Thighs boneless, skinless
- 1½ cup Long Grain Rice
- 2 cups Broccoli chopped
- 1 8 oz Cream Cheese cubed
- 1 cup Pepper Jack shredded
- 1 cup Cheddar Cheese shredded
- 3 Garlic Cloves
- 1 tbsp Dried Onion
- 1 tsp Tarragon
- 1 cup Panko Crumbs
- 1 cup Parmesan Cheese grated
- 4 oz Butter melted
- 1 tsp Garlic Salt
Instructions
- Prepare all of the ingredients. Preheat oven to 400deg.
- In a sauce pan over medium-high heat, add chicken, dried onions, tarragon, and garlic cloves. Add water until 2 inches over chicken. Bring to boil and cook for 8 minutes (it will not be totally cooked, but that okay). Remove chicken from pan and reserve liquid (scrape any foamy stuff offtop). Chop chicken into bite-size pieces.
- Bring chicken broth back to boil and add rice to pan. Continue in a rolling boil for 6 minutes. Add broccoli to boiling rice and cook another 4 minutes. Should have about a cup of liquid left. Transfer rice, broccoli and remaining broth to a 13x9 baking dish.
- Add chicken, cream cheese, pepper jack and cheddar cheese to rice and brocolli. Stir to combine.
- Add panko, parmesan cheese, and garlic salt to melted butter. Sprinkle over top of rice and chicken. Place in oven for 20 minutes. Let rest at least 5 minutes befor serving.
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