Casserole dish
One-Pot Mexican Chicken & Rice
Fajita-spiced chicken thighs seared then baked on a bed of smoky Mexican red rice with black beans, corn and tomato passata — all in one deep frying pan finished in the oven. Big, crowd-pleasing flavours with almost no washing up.
- Prep
- 15min
- Cook
- 40min
- Total
- 55min
- Serves
- 5
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Ingredients
For 5 servings
- 5 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
- 2 tbsp olive oil, divided
- 1 tbsp lime juice, plus extra to serve
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp paprika
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 1¾ tsp salt
- ½ tsp cayenne pepper (optional)
- Black pepper
- 1 small onion, diced
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 red pepper, diced
- 200g long-grain white rice
- 250ml low-sodium chicken stock
- 180ml tomato passata
- 150g frozen sweetcorn
- 1 tin (400g) black beans, drained and rinsed
- Fresh coriander and lime wedges, to serve
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- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
- Maya
Made this on a Tuesday and it tasted like a Sunday.
13 Mar 2026
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