Creole Chicken Recipe

Name: Creole Chicken Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 4 eaches skinless chicken thighs, or more to taste; 1 pinch Creole seasoning, or more to taste; 2 tablespoons butter; 1 (15 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chile peppers; 1 cup water; 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce; 1 (6.8 ounce) package Spanish-style rice mix

Rating: 4.71 stars

21 Ratings
18 Reviews
7 Photos

Spicy seasoned chicken thighs are cooked in Spanish rice. This is a good meal for a busy evening. After seasoning chicken and browning, it is left to cook while you tend to other preparations. This can be very spicy.

By Grace Carolyn Bowers-Reimondo

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Recipe Summary

prep:

10 mins

cook:

45 mins

total:

55 mins

Servings:

Yield:

4 servings

Nutrition Info

Ingredients

Original recipe yields 4 servings

The ingredient list now reflects the servings specified

4 eaches skinless chicken thighs, or more to taste
1 pinch Creole seasoning, or more to taste
2 tablespoons butter
1 (15 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chile peppers
1 cup water
1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
1 (6.8 ounce) package Spanish-style rice mix

Directions

Step 1

Season chicken thighs with Creole seasoning.

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Step 2

Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat; cook chicken in the melted butter until browned, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Transfer chicken to a plate. Add tomatoes with green chile peppers, water, tomato sauce, and Spanish-style rice mix to the same skillet; stir well. Return chicken to the rice mixture and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover skillet, and simmer until chicken is no longer pink in the center and rice is tender, about 40 minutes. Serve on a platter with chicken atop the rice.

Nutrition Facts

Per Serving:

400 calories; protein 27.3g 55% DV; carbohydrates 41.9g 14% DV; fat 14.2g 22% DV; cholesterol 93mg 31% DV; sodium 1750.6mg 70% DV. Full Nutrition

Reviews (18)

Most helpful positive review

Baking Nana

11/02/2015

For a really easy fast dinner this is a keeper. The kids loved it. Yes, it is a bit spicy, a little sour cream or cheese would tame that. I used Zatarain's Spanish Rice Mix, 2 really large chicken breasts cut into thirds, to make 6 pieces. Very tasty for an easy meal. Add a green salad or a vegetable side dish and you got dinner. Read More

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21 Ratings

5 star values: 17
4 star values: 3
3 star values: 0
2 star values: 1
1 star values: 0

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11/02/2015

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Barbara

01/28/2016

I like spicy food but this was a little too much. Next time will use diced tomatoes without the chilies. Followed others suggestion to use chicken broth in place of water for a richer flavor . I also added onion, celery and bell pepper. Read More

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Bibi

12/14/2015

This is an excellent combination of flavors. It is a bit spicy--we consider it to be about a 5 on a scale of 0-10. My only change was to use chicken stock instead of water. This would easily stretch to 8 blsl thighs, and I'm tempted to add some sliced zucchini about half way into the simmer time, when I make this again. Leftovers would be an excellent lunch, if we had any! Thanks for the recommendation, Baking Nana! Read More

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Lori Slis

02/06/2017

This recipe was very easy to make . I had to substitute things because I didn't have the exact ingredients but it turned out very yummy! I didn't have Spanish rice but I had red beans and rice (Zatarains), I had Rotel but the chili fixing variety and I used broth instead of water like other reviewers had. That being said, this is a simple recipe that tastes amazing!! Read More

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Cindy

09/07/2017

We also used chicken broth instead of water, and because of availability had 2 thighs and 2 drumsticks. The rest of the recipe was followed and it was really, really good. There are only 2 of us so we had enough fora second go-around was almost better than the first. Easy, fun meal and we'll have it again soon. Thanks for the recipe! Read More

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