Chicken and Brown Rice with Veggies and Mushrooms

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I love budget recipes, and I tend to collect them and save them and sometimes I even make them. This Chicken and Brown Rice with Veggies and Mushrooms dish is extremely budget friendly, but also just an extremely easy dish to make! 

When I saw I love budget recipes, I go to an extreme to find them.

This is one of them.

I originally found this through Cooking Light, but as is usual, in my kitchen, I had to change it up a bunch, because well, that’s what I do.

This week’s theme is budget recipes and there is a whole slew of them begin brought your way (see the bottom of the post).

This recipe is surprisingly simple and extremely low cost.

The original site dubbed it under $10 for 4, but I can assure you that this recipe fed 7 of us with no problem. And the price was under $10.

The most expensive part was the chicken. We bought 5lbs for around $9 and only used half of it and froze the rest for another dinner.

The brown rice was $2 for 1 bag and we made almost all of it (8 cups) – 2 cups are left for another meal.

The frozen veggies were $1.00, we used them all.

The cremini mushrooms were $3 for a quart, pre-sliced.

I already had olive oil, garlic, onion & paprika.

My thyme is growing wonderfully, so I just snipped off a sprig, but buying it at the store would have been inexpensive and could have been used for a lot of meals.

I happened to have some half and half I wanted to use up, so I chose that but you could use milk instead or even heavy cream if that’s what you have. Half and half is about $2.50 at our store for a quart, so that would go  long way.

Definitely under $10 for 4, but we stretched this meal to fit 7 people. I call that budget friendly!

More Budget Meals

• Mushroom and Artichoke Quiche with Red Pepper Puree
• Pasta Puttanesca
• Cheesy Ravioli Casserole
• Turkey and Acini Di Pepe Skillet
• Air Fryer Grilled Cheese Hot Dogs
• Roasted Honey Mustard Chicken
• Southern-style Black-eyed Peas
• Cheesy Rigatoni Bake

Chicken and Brown Rice with Veggies and Mushrooms Recipe

Chicken and Brown Rice with Veggies and Mushrooms

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I love budget recipes, and I tend to collect them and save them and sometimes I even make them. This Chicken and Brown Rice with Veggies and Mushrooms dish is extremely budget friendly, but also just an extremely easy dish to make! 

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Prep Time 15 mins

Cook Time 45 mins

Total Time 1 hr

Course Main Dish

Cuisine American

Servings 6 -8 servings

Ingredients

  

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• 2 tablespoons olive oil divided
• 1 Tablespoon of minced garlic
• 1 ½ pounds skinless boneless chicken breasts, cut into cubes
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• salt and pepper to taste
• ¾ cup chopped onion
• 4 cups of cremini mushrooms sliced
• ¼ cup of half and half or milk
• 4 cups uncooked brown basmati rice
• 2 cups frozen vegetables thawed
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme

Instructions

 

• In a large pot, prepare the brown rice as directed on the packaging. Brown rice takes about 45 minutes to cook through, so be sure to start it early.
• In a large skillet over medium high heat, heat a tablespoon of olive oil and coat the pan. Drop in the garlic.
• Sprinkle the paprika over the chicken. Salt and Pepper to taste.
• Add the chicken to the olive oil and saute with the garlic for 5 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. Remove the chicken from the pan.
• Place the pan back over medium high heat and add the other tablespoon of olive oil to the pan.
• Add the onion and the cremini mushrooms, salt and pepper to taste.
• Saute the mushrooms for about 4 minutes. Add the half and half and stir.
• Stir the vegetables, chicken and the chopped fresh thyme into the mushrooms.Heat until everything is hot and ready to go.
• Serve the the rice on the bottom and everything else over the top.
• The perfect, hearty meal for not a lot of cash.

Keyword easy chicken recipes, weeknight dinners

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