Dairy Free Cheesy Chicken Broccoli And Rice Bake Nourishing Carbs Food

DAIRY FREE CHEESY CHICKEN, BROCCOLI, AND RICE BAKE - NOURISHING CARBS!

Steps:

• 8 to 12 hours before preparing this recipe, combine 1 cup rice, 2 cups water, and 1 tablespoon raw ACV or lemon juice in a glass bowl or mason jar.
• Cover and set in a the warmest spot in your kitchen for at least 8 hours.
• After 8 to 12 hours, drain the water from the rice. Rinse for less sour flavor.
• Cook the rice using your preferred method.
• For stove top, combine rice with 2 cups of water and bring to a boil, cook until rice is tender. Add water if needed.
• Reserve 2 cups for this recipe. (Remember to OMIT the peppers and carrots)
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Lightly grease or spray with nonsitck spray a 6 to 8 cup casserole or baking dish.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine cooked, soaked rice, chicken, broccoli, 2 cups "cheesy" sauce, salt, and pepper and mix well.
• Pour into prepared baking dish.
• Sprinkle with paprika.
• Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 60 minutes* or until lightly browned on top and bubbly throughout.

LOW-CARB CHEESY CHICKEN BROCCOLI AND "RICE" CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Cook the chicken breasts (we prefer to grill or saute ours, but we often boil or microwave them if we're running late), seasoned to taste (we like salt, garlic powder, onion powder, and pepper), and dice.
• Steam broccoli florets.
• Cook riced cauliflower.
• Melt neufchatel cheese in a pot on medium heat with half of the chicken broth, chicken bouillon, onion powder, and garlic powder.
• Boil the mushrooms in a saute pan in the rest of the chicken broth until cooked and strain the mushrooms, saving the liquid.
• Whisk the Greek yogurt into the cream cheese mixture and warm.
• Pour the mushroom flavored chicken broth into the cheese mixture and whisk until smooth (you may include the mushrooms in the casserole, but if your kids are picky like ours, you may opt to leave them out).
• Layer the casserole in a 9x13 baking dish in the following order (from bottom to top): cauliflower rice, diced chicken, steamed broccoli, cheese sauce (poured evenly over the top), shredded cheese.
• Bake at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes or until bubbly and the cheese is melted.

CHEESY CHICKEN BAKE WITH BROCCOLI AND RICE

Steps:

• In baking 13x9 dish arrange chicken breasts so they are not overlapping.
• mix both cans of soup together with only 1/2 can of water and pour over chicken.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes stir sauce spoon over chicken and return to oven for another 20 minutes --
• In a 2qt sauce pan bring 2-1/2 cups water and broccoli florettes to a rapid boil, remove from heat stir in two cups of instant rice cover tightly for 3 minutes.
• Serve chicken over rice and broccoli.