Chicken, Bacon and Rice

Shirley 39's Note:

A nice comfort food, serve with a green vege, salad and nice warm garlic bread slices. I was needing something for dinner but didn't have a recipe that sounded good, so looked in cabinet and just made this up. Husband thought it was so good. The rice does form like a crust so you get that crisp edge and yet the soft very favorfull tender rice that is not around the edge. The bacon adds a great flavor, who doesn't like bacon.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 15 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 4 chicken breasts
• 8 slices bacon
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 yellow onion , sliced
• 2 garlic cloves
• 8 ounces mushrooms , sliced
• 1 cup white rice , uncooked (Jasmine is my favorite)
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 (14 ounce) can cream of chicken soup
• 1 (14 ounce) can chicken broth
• salt and pepper
• ½ teaspoon sage
• ½ teaspoon marjoram

Directions:

1. Cut chicken breast into 2 pieces and wrap a piece of bacon around each. Fry in small amount of olive oil to crisp bacon, set aside while you saute rest of ingredants.
2. Saute onion, garlic till tender, add mushrooms and butter, saute till almost cooked.
3. Add rice and cook while stirring till browned.
4. Mix soup, broth, seasonings to equal 2 cups. Pour into pan and bring to simmer.
5. Place chicken back on top of rice mixture, Cover and place in oven at 350 degrees for about 45-60 minutes.

Reviews

[Parrot Head Mama]

SUPER! Oh my lord. Really easy, really cost-effective, filling, tasty...the rice is to DIE for. I will definately be making this again, thanks for posting!

[ChefKinder]

Very good for weeknight meal, simple enough for busy times and much better than something "out of a box". I did make it with extra rice and increased the chicken broth to accommodate our big eaters. It's on our list of family favorites. I served it with simple spinach & tomato salad. Thank you!

[Kanissa]

This recipe has a very nice flavor without too much work. However, after making it as listed, in the future I would use maybe even 4 cups of rice, and a tad bit olive oil.