Chicken & Mushrooms Amongst Rice

Ingredients:
1 lb boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cutting into seize amongst teeth sized pieces
12 oz evaporated milk
viii oz diced crimini mushrooms
ii cups cooked long grain rice
1 1/2 cups shredded sudden cheddar
1/2 loving cup diced dark-green onion
1/4 loving cup chicken stock
ii shallots, minced
ii eggs
1 stem celery, diced
1 tablespoon olive fossil oil or butter
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/4 teaspoon dark pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt


Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 2-quart casserole dish amongst cooking spray. Set aside. In a pocket-sized skillet, rut the oil. Add the shallot, chicken together with mushroom together with saute until the chicken starts brownish together with the shallots, celery together with mushrooms are soft. Pour into a bowl together with add together rice, cheese, dark-green onion. In a pocket-sized bowl, whisk together the spices, egg together with evaporated milk. Pour over the rice mixture. Stir to evenly distribute all ingredients. Pour into the casserole dish. Cover together with bake for virtually 45 minutes or until the the chicken is fully cooked together with the dish looks "set".

Note: If the dish is nonetheless runny looking but looks otherwise fully cooked, withdraw the comprehend together with gear upward until roughly of the excess liquid evaporates. This is by together with large an final result if the lid of your dish is really tight fitting.

My thoughts:

Recently a reader emailed me quest if I had a chicken together with rice casserole recipe that that didn't utilisation condensed cream of mushroom soup. Now, I didn't grow upward inwards a casserole eating identify unit of measurement together with thus I genuinely haven't eaten besides many casseroles much less made them but I had a adept reckon what I was upward against. My hubby is only getting over a bout of affliction together with thus I reckon it would hold upward the perfect fourth dimension to brand this comforting dish. I used undiluted evaporated milk because it tastes much creamier than milk but isn't nearly every bit high inwards fatty every bit cream or one-half together with one-half or fifty-fifty whole milk. I sauteed the chicken, shallots together with celery to add together a depth of season that canned soup only can't deliver. Using cooked rice (you tin displace fifty-fifty piece of employment out leftover rice from roughly other meal) eliminates the "will this dry out out earlier it is finished cooking" final result that baking raw rice oftentimes runs into together with gives the dish a creamy, to a greater extent than risotto-like texture.