Cajun chicken and rice bake
Cajun chicken and rice bake! Buttery, tangy, and spicy🤤 Also super easy one pan recipe for week nights!
Ingredients
One-pan Cajun chicken thighs with rice, peppers, and lemon, baked in the oven with a garlicky butter finish.
Directions
- 1
Preheat oven to 425.
- 2
Mix avocado oil, chicken thighs, and Cajun seasoning together in a oven safe skillet (I used a cast iron).
- 3
Set your skillet over medium-high heat.
- 4
Sear both sides of the thighs.
- 5
Once last side is almost seared, add 1 Tbs butter and lemon slices and cook for 1 more minute (move around the thighs so butter melts and lemons get charred).
- 6
Remove everything from skillet.
- 7
Add rice and cook until toasted.
- 8
Add onion and bell pepper and cook for another 3 minutes.
- 9
Add chicken broth, salt & pepper and bring to a boil.
- 10
Place chicken thighs and lemons back into skillet.
- 11
Cover and simmer for 10 minutes until most broth is gone, but not all.
- 12
Place in oven for 12-15 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
- 13
While that is baking, melt together the last 5 Tbs of butter, garlic, and red pepper flakes.
- 14
Once melted, stir in parsley.
- 15
Take the chicken and rice bake out of the oven and put the garlic butter over the chicken and rice.
- 16
Serve with extra parsley & enjoy :)
