Grilled Chicken and Rice with Peas - Easy Dinner!

Here's a real easy and healthy meal that I could eat every night.  It's real simple and takes 20 minutes to cook and maybe 5 minutes prep time.

Grilling chicken is the healthiest way to eat it, the rice is not so healthy, but fuck it.  The kids love this.

Ingredients


For Rice:
1 cup of white rice
2 cups of water
approx 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil
pinch of salt


Peas:
Frozen peas
Water


For Chicken:
2 Chicken breasts (or more depending on how many are eating)
salt
pepper




Step 1 - Put one cup of rice in a pot.  Cover with 2 cups of water.  Add the oil and salt.
Bring to a boil and cover.  Let this cook for 20 minutes.  While the rice is cooking, get the chicken and peas going.

 Step 2 - Pound the chicken to thin it out (makes it easier to cook through), trim the fat and gross bits.  Salt and pepper as desired.

Step 3 - Use Olive Oil to coat your grill pan.  Have heat on high and place salt and peppered sides down first.  Salt and pepper the rest of the chicken.   At the same time, set the peas on the stove and bring to a boil. 

Step 4 - Everything is cooking at the same time.  Peas are boiling (take them off after 5 minutes of boiling and strain), Rice is cooking and the chicken is cooking.  Flip the chicken after around 6 minutes to cook both sides.

Step 5 - After 20 minutes are up, turn off the chicken, uncover the rice and pour the peas into the rice pot and mix.  I add a little butter (I use Earth Balance, butter substitute) to flavor it all a little more.  Mix them up and let it sit for a minute.

Step 6 - Serve the rice on a plate and place the chicken for a nice presentation (to yourself).  For the kids, I cut it up and mix it in.

Kids Plate

Adult Plate

I love this dish and it couldn't be easier.  Any leftover rice, just put away and reheat at a later time.  You can do it all over again, this time just cooking a chicken breast.