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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Ranch Chicken Bites w/Red Rice

So it's been awhile since I updated this. I've made a lot of good things, some are failures, mainly I've been repeating a lot of recipes, but this is a new one.

Hardware:
Large Pot
Frying pan
Tongs or spatula
Wet dish
Dry dish
Plate
Knife
Cutting board
Saran wrap
Meat tenderisor

Ranch Chicken Bites -- this is for 5 servings (lunches)

2 chicken breasts - cleaned and cut into pieces, try for 5 each
Ranch dressing
Seasoned BreadCrumbs
Olive oil

Start my prepping the chicken breasts, clean off the fat and cut into pieces -- depending on size you should be able to get 5 or 6 decent sized pieces out of each. On the clean side of your cutting board lay out a piece of saran wrap, place piece of chicken on one half fold over other half of saran wrap and pound out flatter.

Once all the pieces have been flattened, put ranch dressing in your wet dish and bread crumbs in your dry.. dip in dressing, dip in breadcrumbs and place on plate. Heat your frying pan with olive oil and once hot place chicken pieces in and cook until done, some of the breading will fall off but it's ok.

Red Rice

This is a discovery done quite by accident and may take an extra day of prep if you don't have frozen chopped tomatoes.

Rice --I use brown long cook rice
Frozen tomatoes
Basil

Cook rice according to package for the amount you want.. the directions call to simmer it for 20 minutes, in the last 5 minutes or so drop still frozen tomatoes into the rice -- the head from the rice causes the meat of the tomatoes to burst to they dissolve into the rice, if you didn't peel your tomatoes all you have left is tomatoey rice and the skin from the tomato which you can pick out.

Stir in a teaspoon of basil, salt and pepper to taste.

Serve with a good helping of rice and two pieces of the chicken.