Chicken Sausage and Pepper Rice

Save Time and Budget Friendly Tips for making Chicken Sausage and Peppers

• This delicious recipe is a welcome treat anytime of the year but its exceptionally budget friendly during the Summer months when gardens are in full swing. Use your garden fresh green and red peppers and onions to make the recipe during the Summer months.  
• Dicing up the peppers and slicing the onions for the recipe ahead of time and keeping them in the fridge will save you time the night you make this delicious dinner.  You can also substitute your favorite brand of a 12 ounce frozen stir fry package consisting of the vegetables( green and red peppers and onions) in the recipe, minus any sauce packet that would come with the frozen package. 
• I cut an uncooked chicken breast into strips to make the recipe, you can also buy already packaged up, uncooked chicken tenders that aren’t breaded and weight at least a pound in weight in place of cutting an uncooked chicken breast into strips.

Chicken Sausage and Pepper Rice Ingredients:

• one Tablespoon Olive Oil
• 1 1/4 cups chopped green bell pepper
• 1 1/4 cups chopped red bell pepper
• 8 boneless chicken breasts strips (I used one boneless chicken breast cut into strips)
• 1 cup slivered onions
• 1 cup water
• 12 ounces smoked kielbasa, cut into 1 inch slices
• 1 cup uncooked long grain rice (not instant rice)
• a 14 1/2 ounce can diced tomatoes
• 1 Teaspoon dried Thyme 
• 1 Teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
• 1/4 cup chopped parsley
• 1 Teaspoon salt
• 1 Teaspoon Hot Pepper Sauce, optional and served on the side

Place a Dutch Oven over medium high heat until hot. Add the oil to the pan, tilt the pan to coat the bottom. Add the sausage and cook 5 minutes or until the sausage begins to brown around the edges. Stir the sausage frequently as it cooks.

Add the chicken strips, peppers, onions, tomatoes, water, rice, Worcestershire Sauce and Thyme to the Dutch oven.

Increase the heat to high, bring the ingredients to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover tightly with the Dutch Oven Lid and simmer for 25 minutes or until the vegetables are tender and the mixture has thickened. Stir the ingredients half way through the 25 minute cooking time.

Remove the Dutch Oven from the heat and add the salt and parsley to the pan. Cover tightly with the lid and let stand 15 minutes to absorb the flavors. 

Chicken Sausage and Pepper Rice, it’s What’s For Dinner” and it’s delicious!

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Chicken Sausage and Pepper Rice

This is a delicious dinner recipe using boneless chicken breast and smoked sausage. It's complete dinner with peppers and onions in the rice along with long grain rice.

Prep Time25 minutes mins

Cook Time45 minutes mins

Course: dinner

Cuisine: American

Keyword: #chicken, baked riced pudding, sausage

Servings: 6

Author: Mary Malone

Ingredients

• 1 Tablespoon olive oil
• 12 ounces Kielbasa smoked sausage cut into 1 inch slices
• 8 strips boneless chicken breast (about 1 pound of boneless chicken Breasts cut into strips)
• 1 1/4 cups chopped red bell pepper
• 1 1/4 cups chopped green bell pepper
• 1 cup slivered onion
• one 14 1/2 ounce can diced tomatoes
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup uncooked long grain rice (not instant)
• 1 Teaspoon dried Thyme
• 1 Teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
• 1 Teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup chopped parsley, optional
• 1 Teaspoon Hot Pepper sauce, optional

Instructions

• Place a Dutch Oven over medium high heat until hot. Add the oil and tilt the pot to coat the bottom with oil.

  Add the sausage and cook 5 minutes or until it begins to brown on the edges, stir frequently.

  Add the chicken tenders, peppers, onion, tomatoes, water, rice, Worcestershire Sauce and Thyme to the pan. Increase the heat to high and bring the ingredients to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover the dutch oven with a lid and simmer for 25 minutes or until vegetables are tender and mixture has thickened. Stir the pot halfway through cooking.

  Remove from the pan from the heat heat and add the parsley and salt to the pan. Cover with the lid and let stand 15 minutes to absorb the flavors. Serve with Hot Pepper sauce on the side.

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