Hello Everyone! Here in North Florida, it’s a cold and blustery day. Stay warm wherever you are! And I hope all your wishes come true.
I just finished cooking up two pots of chicken pilaf for three of my friends and also for myself, to go with this cold and blustery day And with leftovers for another day, so that they don’t have to cook. As everyone knows that food feeds the soul and brings about love and happiness, which is what I wish for all of you.
These are two separate recipes that are made from 2 different, pint jars of chicken that I had canned up. Chicken is UGLY in the canning jars but, oh the fast meals, do they create! One jar was breast meat (raw packed). And the other jar was thighs on the bone (raw packed). They both made their own boullion juices which were rich and flavorful.
On to the recipe, now.
2 big pots with lids 3 cups of parboiled rice ( the hard rice) in each pot.
1 pint of canned chicken or 2 breast cooked for white meat or 5 thighs cooked for dark meat.
6 cups of water in each pot.
Put water rice and chicken in each pot. Cook on high until it is rolling boiling. Stir and turn the stove down to #4 on the little stove eye and #3 on the large stove eye. Crush up 3 bullion cubes for each pot and add 1 TBSP of salt to each pot.
On one pot, I added a TBSP of rosemary and also of basil. On the other. pot, I added just the basil. They both could have used some pepper but with friends, I left that out.
Put the lids on and leave it alone. In 20 minutes, take a look and if looking almost dry, then turn down one # lower on the stove eye and set the timer for 15 minutes. This will give you the fluffy-looking rice and not be the soggy rice that I detest.
I hope that you will try this recipe! You do not have to cook two large pots of chicken pilaf as I did! But, I wanted to share some joy with my friends on this nippy and blustery, windy day. As it is almost lunch-time now and I have done my deliveries, I think that I will enjoy some lunch, just as soon as I finish this post.
Love and best wishes from Connie B. #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNIES
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