MAIN Chicken & Rice with Tangy Swiss Chard
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Chicken and rice is so easy to make and also classically southern! Save the bones for stock if you like (highly encouraged) and add more liquid later in the week to these leftovers to make a nice homemade chicken and rice soup. Add the tangy chard, too, for a twist to the soup!
Ingredients
4 quarts water
1 whole chicken
1 pkg poultry herb mix (thyme, rosemary, sage)
1 Tbsp salt and pepper
1 ½ cups white rice
½ bunch rainbow chard, cut into chiffonade
¼ cup apple cider vinegar
2 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp soy sauce
1 pinch red pepper flakes
2 stalks celery, chopped
2 carrots, chopped
Instructions
- Heat water in a large soup pot.
- Add whole chicken (with gizzards removed from the cavity if necessary), herbs and salt + pepper.
- Bring water to a boil and then reduce to a simmer, cooking chicken until meat is falling off the bone, about 30 minutes.
- Remove chicken carefully from water, making sure that if it’s falling apart to not leave any bones behind. Place chicken in a large bowl to cool.
- Take an inventory of the water (now chicken stock): How much is left? You’ll want about 2 quarts, so pour off any extra and store as stock for use in future recipes.
- Add rice to the remaining stock and cook until soft.
- While rice is cooking, use your fingers to pick the meat off of the chicken, chop it up into bite-sized pieces if necessary and set aside. Reserve carcasse in a plastic bag and place in the freezer: next time you need stock, just boil this in water and voila!, more stock for free.
- Next, make tangy chard: combine chard with apple cider vinegar, olive oil, sugar, soy and red pepper flakes. Massage into chard until evenly coated and slightly wilted.
- Once rice is cooked, stock is reduced by enough to resemble a soup that is evenly balanced with rice and liquid, add chicken back to pot and reheat. Add carrots and celery at this time and cook for 10 minutes.
- Serve topped with tangy chard.
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