Oven Baked Chicken and Rice Pilaf (Cranberry, Walnut, Apple) Recipe

You’ll love the scent that wafts by means of your own home when this Baked Chicken and Rice Pilaf is within the oven! The rice is cooked with cranberries and walnuts in a herb infused apple broth, with contemporary apple tossed by means of. Add a terrific sticky chicken, and also you’ve bought a wonderful quick-prep one pan dinner!

I’m an enormous fan of 1 pot chicken and rice recipes like Baked Rotisserie Chicken with Garlic Butter Rice, Chinese language Chicken and Rice, Tacky Chicken Broccoli and Rice and Mexican Chicken Rice. Large flavours, two dishes made in ONE pot!

Oven Baked Chicken with Cranberry, Walnut and Apple Rice Pilaf. That’s considerably of a mouthful of a recipe title, isn’t it??!! Oh wait – “mouthful”. *Head smack* Discuss a nasty joke.

Within the lead as much as Christmas, it’s all the time festive-food-heavy round right here. So I assumed I’d sneak in a fast dinner recipe, with a festive spin. That is actually one thing I made up on the weekend. Impressed by Christmassy flavours, and wanting to make use of up leftover cranberries and nuts from all of the Christmassy cooking that’s been occurring round right here.

This recipe is predicated on the cooking technique I take advantage of for my Baked Chicken and Rice which is, as unusual as it could sound, most likely the all time hottest recipe on my web site – ever. Which, despite the fact that it sounds so strange and unexciting, truly makes me actually joyful as a result of I really feel like Chicken and Rice is a staple meal for a lot of households world wide, so it’s good to have the ability to share one that’s actually tremendous tasty and but quite simple and fast to make.

My little however big-impact trick to make a baked chicken and rice additional tasty is to “oven saute” onion in butter earlier than including the rice. Simply plonk onion, garlic and dollops of butter in a pan and bake when you put together the remainder of the recipe.

It actually makes all of the distinction. There’s a cause why onion and garlic is the place to begin for thus many savoury recipes – as a result of it’s an awesome flavour base. And I begin my stovetop pilaf with sautéed onion, so I do the identical for my baked pilaf.

Apart from that, the one different key factor that makes all of the distinction is getting the liquid to rice ratios proper. As a result of soggy rice is an enormous no-no in my world, and baked rice is extra susceptible to being soggy if you happen to overdo the liquid by even 1/4 cup.

I like baking the cranberries and walnuts within the rice itself. The cranberries change into plump as they suck within the apple-herb infused broth (oh wait, have I discussed the rice is cooked in an apple juice broth?? It’s SO GOOD!!!), and the walnuts soften however nonetheless retains that smooth crunch. Additionally, the walnuts and cranberries find yourself on the floor of the rice in order that they get good and toasty.

Earlier than I log out, fast apology for delayed response to messages and cooking questions over the weekend. The RecipeTin Household have been busy catering a Christmas occasion for Mama RecipeTin and 30 of her mates. An intensive canapé menu plus buffet, ending with what I’m calling the By no means-Ending Meringue Tart, a 2 metre lengthy development made with a meringue tart shell, topped with cream and fruit. Simpler to make than Pavlova, the meringue might be made days and days upfront, and I assumed it was a pleasant assertion dessert that’s nice for feeding a lot of folks. 🙂

Right here it’s on the Christmas Celebration. What you see there solely required 7 egg whites and fed 30 folks – are you able to imagine that?? Fairly cool! Although… needed to make do with baking paper to serve it. Searched my cabinets however couldn’t discover a platter that lengthy….. 😂

Oh – and right here’s a photograph I took once I did a take a look at run at dwelling. Need the recipe? 😉 (PS Reminder – tremendous duper straightforward! Simpler than Pav! Make as loooooong as you need!)

Umm, higher truly end up with a photograph of the recipe I’m sharing immediately – Oven Baked Chicken and Rice Pilaf with Cranberries, Walnuts and Apple. 😂 A straightforward festive-inspired dinner made in a single pan! – Johnsat x

PS The straightforward Sticky Chicken is basically implausible however I’ve to say, the true star of that is the Cranberry, Walnut and Apple Pilaf. Can’t-Cease-Consuming-It scrumptious.

PPS Look carefully ↓↓↓ No signal of soggy, gluey rice. It’s fluffy! Fluffy fluffy!