Sometimes I like to roast an entire chicken. Typically, I do this when I'm (a) hungry and (b) have an hour's worth of something else to do while the chicken is cooking.
The problem is always that I can't seem to eat an entire chicken so there is always something left over. Now, since I typically eat all of the good parts while I'm still hungry, I end up with about a third of a chicken that basically doesn't look entirely edible.
So I came up with another way to cook it.
Here is what you need.
1 big chicken
2 cups of brown rice
3 onions
Spray a big glass cooking pan in PAM (unless you want to spend a lot of time cleaning up later)
Slice up the onions and line the bottom of the cooking pan with the slices.
Wash the chicken then put it onto the onions. If you have some, sprinkle some Costco Steak seasoning on the chicken.
Put the chicken in the oven and cook at 350 for about an hour and a half.
Now for the rice. Boil 4 cups of water (with a tablespoon of butter). Add the rice, cover and simmer for 45 minutes.
Set a timer for the rice. When I don't do that, there is about a 60-40 chance that my brown rice will end up black and stuck to the bottom of yet another pot I need to throw away.
When the chicken is done, remove it from the pan and let it cool. Take off the skin and feed it to the dog. My wife disagrees with this, but since you are single, this shouldn't be a problem.
When the chicken has cooled, pull off the meat, cut it into bite-size bits and toss it back into the pan with the onions. Note, the onion should be sitting in about half an inch of chicken grease from when you cooked the chicken. Add the rice.
Stir and enjoy.
The problem is always that I can't seem to eat an entire chicken so there is always something left over. Now, since I typically eat all of the good parts while I'm still hungry, I end up with about a third of a chicken that basically doesn't look entirely edible.
So I came up with another way to cook it.
Here is what you need.
1 big chicken
2 cups of brown rice
3 onions
Spray a big glass cooking pan in PAM (unless you want to spend a lot of time cleaning up later)
Slice up the onions and line the bottom of the cooking pan with the slices.
Wash the chicken then put it onto the onions. If you have some, sprinkle some Costco Steak seasoning on the chicken.
Put the chicken in the oven and cook at 350 for about an hour and a half.
Now for the rice. Boil 4 cups of water (with a tablespoon of butter). Add the rice, cover and simmer for 45 minutes.
Set a timer for the rice. When I don't do that, there is about a 60-40 chance that my brown rice will end up black and stuck to the bottom of yet another pot I need to throw away.
When the chicken is done, remove it from the pan and let it cool. Take off the skin and feed it to the dog. My wife disagrees with this, but since you are single, this shouldn't be a problem.
When the chicken has cooled, pull off the meat, cut it into bite-size bits and toss it back into the pan with the onions. Note, the onion should be sitting in about half an inch of chicken grease from when you cooked the chicken. Add the rice.
Stir and enjoy.
