Baked Chicken Thighs, Rice, and Vegetables
5.0
Ingredients
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- 60 min
- Total
- 70 min
Instructions
- 1 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- 2 Pat chicken thighs dry with a paper towel, and season both sides with seasoned salt.
- 3 Heat olive oil in a 12-inch oven-proof nonstick skillet over medium heat until it shimmers. Brown chicken thighs lightly in the hot oil, about 3 minutes. Turn, and sprinkle smoked paprika evenly on top. Continue cooking until chicken thighs are light brown, about 3 minutes. Chicken will not be cooked through. Transfer chicken to a plate and keep warm.
- 4 Cook chopped onion in the same skillet until soft and translucent, about 3 minutes. Add rice, stirring and scraping the bottom of the skillet, until the rice picks up a little color, about 4 minutes. Stir in butternut squash cubes and frozen green beans and season with herbes de Provence. Pour in chicken broth, and set browned chicken thighs on top.
- 5 Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes.
- 6 Place Caesar croutons in the bowl of a food processor or blender and pulse several times, until the croutons are reduced to coarse crumbs.
- 7 Sprinkle crumbs over chicken, rice, and vegetables, and continue to bake until chicken is done and the butternut squash and rice are tender, 15 to 20 minutes more. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).
By Bibi