This isn’t called Forgotten Chicken because you’re going to forget about it. Quite the contrary, in fact, I think that once you try it you’ll remember it forever! It’s more that it’s so easy and hands off that you can forget about it if you needed to.
It’s just the kind of shortcut dinner that saves those weeknights when you don’t know what to make for dinner (or maybe can’t muster the energy to throw it together). It’s a whole meal in a baking dish — flavorful rice and juicy chicken — and all you have to do is stir a few things together in a baking dish and pop it in the oven.
Would you believe me if I told you you only need five ingredients to make this? It’s true. The base of the dish is minute rice, which is kind of funny because this bakes for a good long time — but don’t worry, nothing turns to mush. You take that rice and you mix it with two cans of soup and one can’s worth of water. Any condensed soup will work but I like a combo of chicken and celery here. That mixture goes into a greased baking dish.
Then you’re going to top that rice mixture with some boneless skinless chicken breasts. Five medium breasts work well, but you can go up to six if they’re small, and use only four if they’re very large. So far, this has taken you, what? Five minutes?
Forgotten Chicken
Yield(s): Serves 4-6
5m prep time
1h 30m cook time
Ingredients
- 2 cups minute rice
- 1 can cream of chicken soup
- 1 can cream of celery soup
- 1 can water
- 5 boneless skinless chicken breasts (about 1 1/2 lbs)
- 1 envelope onion soup mix
- Butter, for greasing dish
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 350°F and grease a 9×13-inch baking dish with butter. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, stir together the chicken soup, celery soup, 1 can’s worth of water, and minute rice.
- Transfer mixture to prepared pan.
- Arrange chicken breasts on top of rice mixture, then sprinkle onion soup mix evenly over the top.
- Cover dish tightly with foil, then bake until chicken is cooked through and liquid has absorbed into rice, about 90 minutes.
