{"id":302,"date":"2011-04-04T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2011-04-15T23:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T03:58:09","slug":"mexican-rice-with-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Rice with Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my high school years, my best friend\u00a0and I enjoyed eating a bowl of Mexican Rice for lunch when it was on the menu. It was tasty and healthy in comparison to the standard fried chicken nuggets, chicken fingers, shoestring chicken, chicken tenders, popcorn chicken, and of course French fries! My recipe for Mexican Rice is made with brown rice and chunks of chicken, which I\u00a0recommend serving with a\u00a0green salad on the side for a well-rounded meal.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Mexican-Rice-and-Chicken.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-307\" title=\"Mexican Rice and Chicken\" src=\"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Mexican-Rice-and-Chicken-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Mexican-Rice-and-Chicken-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Mexican-Rice-and-Chicken-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Mexican-Rice-and-Chicken.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mexican Rice and Chicken<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Serves 4<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Tbsp. olive oil<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd c. onion, finely chopped<\/p>\n<p>1 garlic clove, finely chopped<\/p>\n<p>\u00bc c. carrot, finely chopped<\/p>\n<p>2 Tbsp. tomato paste<\/p>\n<p>1 c. brown rice<\/p>\n<p>2 \u00bd cup chicken broth<\/p>\n<p>1 lb. chicken breast, cut into large chunks<\/p>\n<p>\u00bc tsp. kosher salt<\/p>\n<p>\u00a01. Heat oil in a 4 qt. pot over medium-high heat. Add onion and cook for about 2 minutes. Add the garlic and carrot and cook for 2 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste and cook for 1 minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a02. Mix in the rice and then add the chicken stock. Bring to a boil, stir once, and reduce heat to medium-low. Cover and simmer for 25 minutes. Then, sprinkle salt over the chicken pieces and add them to the rice. Stir once and simmer, covered, for 20 more minutes. Remove from heat, let stand for 5 minutes,\u00a0and fluff rice with a fork before serving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my high school years, my best friend\u00a0and I enjoyed eating a bowl of Mexican Rice for lunch when it was on the menu. It was tasty and healthy in comparison to the standard fried chicken nuggets, chicken fingers, shoestring chicken, chicken tenders, popcorn chicken, and of course French fries! My recipe for Mexican Rice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miancatalano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}