One-Pot Honey Garlic Chicken and Rice

Bruchy Duschinsky Bruchy Duschinsky
4.0 (4 reviews)
1h 30m 6
Easy Gluten Free Meat

Contains: Soy

Directions

  1. Add honey, garlic, soy sauce, and water to a pot. Bring to a boil. (Tip: Use boiled water from your kettle and skip this entire first cooking step.)

  2. Then add chicken and cook, covered, on a low flame for one hour.

  3. Throw rice into the pot and let it all simmer, covered, for 20 minutes until almost all the liquid is absorbed.

Variations:
Subbing brown rice instead of white? Adapt the recipe as follows: Add an additional 1/2 cup water at the beginning—for a total of three and a half cups water. Once you throw in the rice, let it simmer on a low flame for 45 minutes.

If you want to include veggies, you can throw in some mushrooms or peppers together with the rice. Or keep it veggie-free for those picky eaters and throw together a salad to serve on the side.

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Dina Aschkenasy •

So I made the recipe and here are my comments:

1) The chicken smelled and tasted great, however
2) 3/4 cup of rice is no way enough for six people (I don't know why I didn't realize this right away! The correct amount was probably meant to be 1 3/4 cups) so
3) 3 cups of water was much too much! The chicken and rice were floating in soup, so
4) The whole thing didn't look very appetizing and nothing at all like the lovely styled picture. The chicken was pale, aside from everything else.
5) I added a quarter of a red pepper, finely chopped, plus about a cup of frozen peas. That helped the dish look a teeny bit better.

Dina Aschkenasy •

Why weren't any of the questions answered?

@ Barbara: Chicken bottoms are the whole quarter of dark meat chicken, so four thighs and four drumsticks. I'm not sure that would be enough for six hearty eaters but definitely enough for four.

@ Debra: My wild guess is that a food stylist arranged the chicken and rice to make it look good, adding peppers, tomatoes and pretty sprigs of something green, and that it didn't look that way when it was cooked.

@Chava: I would remove the chicken, add the rice and water and then return the chicken to the pot.

Now to my question: If using brown rice, are you meant to cook the chicken the whole 45 minutes that the rice is cooking?

Barbara Cohen •

A couple of questions. What are chicken bottoms? Looking at the pics I think they are thighs. Now, I don't know about you, but my family generally eat 2 thighs each--so the servings of 6 makes no sense- when you say 4 bottoms. Also, I get the rice thrown in at the end and cookk but it would never look as nice as the pics.

Debe Conway •

Recipe looks good , but how does the chicken look so good if it’s covered and the rice in the picture has peppers and tomatoes in it , is there stages missed out in recipe

Avigael Levi Kosher.com Team •
Reply to Debe Conway

The beauty of styled photos :) You're not missing any info- in the notes after the recipe directions it says "If you want to include veggies, you can throw in some...with the rice. Or keep it veggie-free for those picky eaters and throw together a salad to serve on the side."

chava engel •

This looks so good! Im confused with the directions,what do you do with the rice? you add to chicken pot or seporate pot? you add on top of chicken?pic shows under. you lift the chicken and then add the rice?

Avigael Levi Kosher.com Team •
Reply to chava engel

Thank you! You add the rice into the same pot as the chicken, and yes, rice goes over chicken. Unless you want to lift up the pieces of chicken and pour the rice under. Either option works.