How To Make One Pan Cilantro-Lime Chicken and Rice with Black Beans
One-pan recipes like this chicken and rice recipe are an easy way to prepare a filling dish. This one has Mexican flavors from the cilantro and lime.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1lbchicken breasts,boneless skinless, diced into 1 inch cubes
- 1tbspcanola oil
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 4green onions,chopped, keep lighter and darker portions separate
- 2clovesgarlic,minced
- 1½cupslow sodium chicken broth
- 1cangreen chilies,(4 oz), chopped
- 2tsplime zest
- 3tbsplime juice
- 14½ozblack beans,(1 can), rinsed and well drained
- 2cupsminute white rice,(don’t use regular rice)
- ⅓cupcilantro,chopped
Instructions
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Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Once hot add chicken, season with salt and pepper, and saute for about 6 minutes until cooked through, adding in lighter portions of the green onions and garlic at the last 1 minute of cooking.
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Stir in broth, green onion greens, green chilies, lime zest, lime juice, black beans and season with salt and pepper to taste.
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Bring mixture to a boil, add rice, fully immerse rice in broth, and allow to boil 20 seconds, then remove from heat and immediately cover with a lid. Let rest 5 to 6 minutes.
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If needed, return pan to medium heat and cook and toss 1 minute to allow rice to absorb excess moisture.
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Remove from heat, toss in cilantro and let rest uncovered for 3 minutes.
Nutrition
- Calories: 960.40kcal
- Fat: 16.67g
- Saturated Fat: 3.99g
- Trans Fat: 0.13g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 7.12g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 4.14g
- Carbohydrates: 147.23g
- Fiber: 17.05g
- Sugar: 3.49g
- Protein: 54.91g
- Cholesterol: 72.57mg
- Sodium: 1046.80mg
- Calcium: 177.19mg
- Potassium: 2060.57mg
- Iron: 7.53mg
- Vitamin A: 46.47µg
- Vitamin C: 35.68mg
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