Mexican Chicken and Rice

Name: Mexican Chicken and Rice
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 6 pc boneless skinless chicken thighs; 2½ tbsp olive oil; 1 tbsp white wine vinegar; 2 tsp onion powder; 1 tsp chilli powder; ½ tsp paprika; ½ tsp salt; ¼ tsp dried oregano; ¼ tsp ground cumin; 2 tbsp olive oil; 2 cups long-grain white rice; ½ pc white onion; 4 pc garlic; 4 cups water; 1 tbsp tomato paste; ¼ tsp salt

Tender, juicy marinated chicken thighs baked over fluffy Mexican-style rice in one pot.

75 min 564 kcal/serving serves 6

564kcal26gprotein53gcarbs27gfat

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🍗boneless skinless chicken thighs

🫒olive oil

🍶white wine vinegar

🧅onion powder

🌶️chilli powder

🌶️paprika

🧂salt

🌿dried oregano

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About Isabel Orozco-Moore

Mexican-American home cook and founder of Isabel Eats

Isabel Orozco-Moore is a Mexican-American home cook and recipe developer, best known as the creator of Isabel Eats, a website dedicated to traditional Mexican cooking made approachable for home kitchens. Her recipes are rooted in family tradition and aimed at cooks who want authentic results without specialty equipment or hard-to-find ingredients.

Her cooking draws on classic Mexican staples such as corn tortillas, dried chiles, fresh salsas, beans, and slow-cooked meats, often reworked into clear, step-by-step formats for home cooks. She favors traditional flavor bases, achieved through techniques like toasting and rehydrating chiles or building sauces from scratch, while keeping ingredient lists and methods practical for a weeknight kitchen.

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