The Pressure Cooker Pantry Meal: Creamy Chicken and Rice! The Answer to Quick and Easy!

This quick creamy chicken and rice is a recipe I developed to come right off your pantry or food storage shelf. Using home canned or regular canned chicken, homemade cream of celery soup, some canned mushrooms from your pantry and a bit of seasoning and oil. This is made even faster by cooking it in the pressure cooker!

I thought it would be awesome to make a fast recipe even faster by employing my trusty pressure cooker and I did just that! The rice comes out so creamy using this method I think you will love it!

I have used one recipe or 4 cups of my homemade cream of celery soup along with 2 pints of my home canned chicken breast with the liquid, but you can use two large cans chunk white chicken from the store. You can sub out two cans of condensed cream of celery soup if that is what you have and two cans of milk or water. I prefer the milk here to give this a really creamy texture and flavor. I also added two small cans of sliced mushrooms along with their liquid and about a tablespoon of poultry seasoning and some oil. 

It is very important to remember the oil when cooking rice in the pressure cooker because skipping that step could lead to your pressure cooker pit cock/vent becoming clogged and ruined forever. Best to err on the side of caution and toss in the oil. I also use oil when cooking plain rice as well as dry beans in the pressure cooker for this same reason. 

I used the default "Rice" setting on my Elite 10 quart pressure cooker and set my creamy chicken and rice to cook for 12 minutes. I allowed the unit to rest after it had cooked for the complete amount of time and released the remaining pressure after about five minutes. 

The resulting creamy chicken and rice is amazing and delicious and the perfect meal to serve on a night when you are haggard and hungry. This comes together super fast for nights when you either forgot to thaw out some meat, are too tired to cook or are at a loss for what to make or all of the above. This one hits home in a big way! Make some steamed veggies and/or a salad to serve along with this and dinner is done. You will even have a few moments to decompress while this cooks. 

This may well become one of your "go to" dinner choices. It's so easy to just pull the items from your pantry shelf that you will want to have the ingredients on hand. If you are making this using homemade cream of celery soup, then you can always plan ahead and make this on the weekend and stow it in the fridge for the night you know you will make this and it's ready to go. In a pinch the canned condensed soup will work, but give the homemade version a try at least one time so you can see how amazing the flavor is! 

Busy families can never have to many new and different ideas for dinner. This is one that I am certain you will love. I mean whats not to love? chicken, rice, creamy sauce and you can even stir those veggies in at the end if you want a one dish meal! Simple and quick. I understand how tough some nights can be! This makes it easy and keeps you from spending precious dollars and time going out to eat or bringing home take out. 

I hope you will give this quick and easy pressure cooker creamy chicken and rice a try and I hope you love it! If you do try this, please let me know! Be sure to snap a picture and share with me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! I love to see what you are doing in your kitchen!

Happy Eating!

You can get the recipe from my website:  http://bit.ly/1Tg1LUP

You can see how I made this here:

Carolina Roast, My Answer to Mississippi Roast! A Pot Roast by Any Other Name is Still a Pot Roast!

The internet created a monster and it is called Mississippi Roast!  I have seen this done hither and yon a thousand different ways.  While I am sure it is delicious, I have issues with the original recipe.  Firstly, let's talk about the elephant in the pot that is the ENTIRE stick of butter placed on top of an already fatty  piece of chuck roast!  Then let's talk about the over the top sodium content of using a packet of either dry ranch or Italian dressing mix as well as a packet of beef au jus mix.   I can't even begin to fathom the amount of salt in that recipe.  Not to mention the fat on fat of butter and beef.    There are few times you will see me be concerned with a recipe, but with this one I have issues.

The only way to deal is to make your own recipe.  So I set forth to make my version of the Mississippi Roast.  I thought it would be a nice recipe to make in the pressure cooker.  I also thought that since they were using dressing mix as a seasoning base, why not just use dressing.  Since Ranch was not going to work in it's liquid form, I have opted to use my homemade Italian dressing http://bit.ly/ItalianDressing  that I made with my Homemade Italian seasoning blend http://bit.ly/Italianseasoning.  I added some beef stock and an onion and some chopped garlic along with a jar of pepperoncinis that I popped the seeds and stems out of.  I also used a bit of the vinegary juice from the peppers as well.

I pressure cooked this for a total of one hour.  In the video I mentioned that I started at 40 minutes, but I ended up needing to add a bit more time.  If you do this, start yours for an hour and save yourself the headache.  Slow cooking is an option and if you don't have a pressure cooker, you could easily do this in your slow cooker by cooking for at least 6 to 8 hours on low or 4 to 6 hours on high.  The result will be similar.  Pressure cooking is the pe

In the end this was a delicious roast.  You can serve it like I did with egg noodles and a veggie or you can shred this in the pot in it's juices along with those mild peppers and serve this piled into some soft Italian rolls.  Add some Giardinera and you are on your way to a Carolina Chicago beef fusion the likes of which you have never seen.

This delicious, briney, perfectly seasoned beef roast was delicious and we will make this again.  You could also do this with a pork loin if you like, but adjust the time to suit the size of your roast.   Dare I say, this Carolina Roast also has a bit of a tang to it, just like Carolina BBQ, so this fits right in down my way!

I hope you give this Carolina Roast a try and I hope you love it!  

Happy Eating!

You can watch my video here:

You can get the recipe here:

http://bit.ly/CarolinaRoast