One Pot Chicken Enchilada Rice Casserole

Easy, effortless midweek meal! Rice with shredded chicken cooked in a homemade enchilada sauce (or use store-bought!), topped with cheese. All made in one pot!
All you need is chicken, rice, tomato passata (or canned tomato) and a handful of pantry essentials to make this incredible flavour loaded, comfort-food-central meal. Oh wait – cheese. Of course you need cheese. This would not be “Enchilada” without cheese!

I’ve been overloading on Mexican over the last couple of weeks, sharing my Mexican Shredded Beef and Freezer Friendly Beef Burritos. I feel a bit silly sharing yet another Mexican(-esque) recipe today, but I hadn’t actually planned to! I had Cashew Chicken all ready to go, then I got the sweetest message from TWO readers in one day asking me to please share more one-pot recipes because they loved my One Pot Greek Chicken & Lemon Rice so much. 🙂 So I decided to shuffle my posting calendar a bit and share this today. I hope you don’t mind!

I love this kind of food for midweek. I call it Couch Food. The definition of Couch Food is “any meal that can be served in a bowl and eaten with a fork or spoon without taking your eyes off the TV”.

This qualifies. 100%. 🙂

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 3 oz/400 g chicken breast, about 1/3"/1cm thick, sliced horizontally into thin steaks (Note 1)
• 1 small onion, diced
• 3 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 red bell pepper/capsicum, diced
• 24 oz/680 g tomato passata or crushed canned tomatoes* (Note 2)
• 3 cups chicken broth or water (750ml)
• 1 1/2 cups frozen corn (250g)
• ½ tsp cayenne pepper* (spicy - adjust to taste)
• 1 tbsp dried oregano*
• 2 tsp cumin*
• 1 ½ tsp coriander*
• 2 tsp onion powder*
• 1 tbsp brown sugar*
• Salt and pepper
• 1 1/2 cups / 270g white rice (short, medium or long grain, (Note 4)
• 1 - 1 1/2 cups grated cheese (about 125 - 150 g)

TO SERVE

• Choppedcilantro/coriander optional

Instructions

1. Heat olive oil over medium high heat in large skillet.
2. Add chicken and cook each side for 2 minutes or until cooked, then remove onto a plate.
3. Add extra oil if the skillet is looking dry. Add onion and garlic, cook for 1 1/2 minutes until starting to soften.
4. Add bell peppers and cook for a further 2 minutes.
5. Add remaining ingredients except rice and cheese. Bring to simmer, then add rice.
6. Stir, cover with a lid and turn down heat to medium low. Cover and cook until rice is cooked but
7. not mushy and most of the liquid is absorbed - about 15 to 18 minutes. (Note 3). Do not stir while it cooks.
8. Meanwhile, shred or roughly chop chicken.
9. ..........................................................

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