One Pot Spicy Chicken Sausage and Rice Recipe {GF, DF}

This spicy chicken sausage and rice recipe is a one pot meal packed full of zesty flavors, perfect for a weeknight dinner meal. Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free too.

I just spent the last week in Florida having hands down the time of my life. I was there meeting up with three of my closest friends in the entire world and we spent the week, eating, drinking, tanning, swimming, and just running around.

I look forward to these get togethers every single year and it never ceases to amaze me how quickly a week can fly by. Time seems to only be speeding up as we get older and I always seem to feel like I just got there when I am heading back to the airport to fly back home.

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Are you with me? Time’s flying for you too right?

After a week of delicious eating and drinking, and yes now that we’re all older we’ve upgraded from PBRs and buffalo wings to fancy martinis and grilled octopus salads (though we did manage to squeeze in a few cheap beers and pub food) it’s time to get back into the kitchen.

Since I’ve been out of the cooking loop for a bit I’m going to ease myself back into it with a simple one pot meal. Doing the dishes might just be the single worst chore out there so if you can minimize the pots and pans used to make dinner you’re more likely to look forward to the whole process. Am I right? That’s always my mentality and way of thinking – especially if I do not have a kitchen assistant to help with the clean up. One pot recipes are the best when you can’t be bothered to do much cleaning up but still want to enjoy a home cooked meal.

And so this spicy chicken sausage and rice recipe came to be. In all my years of cooking somehow, making rice in a pot by itself always seems to come out a bit off. Undercooked or overcooked, or slightly crunchy or a bit too moist — why is it that rice is more difficult to perfect than so many other more complex dishes?

Am I the only person with rice cooking issues?

My secret is to toast the rice first and cook it with other ingredients. When I’m making a rice pilaf type dish, as I consider this spicy chicken sausage dish to be, the rice is perfectly cooked every single time. Every single time. When the rice is toasted in oil something magical just happens and the rice becomes way more forgiving of the way it is cooked.

With this chicken sausage and rice recipe you’ve got the spiceness from the chicken sausage and the burst of fresh flavors from the arugula, cilantro and lime juice and the smooth creamy chicken broth soaked rice. I love cooking rice in chicken broth – I find that it adds so much flavor to the rice with a super easy replacement and substitute for water. If you have home made chicken broth – even better, but store bought will suffice too.

You’ve seriously got to toast the rice and cook it in chicken broth instead of water. It makes a world of difference I tell ya.

So for a one pot weeknight dinner meal with minimal clean up yet all the food groups covered in one dish, you can’t go wrong with this one pot spicy chicken sausage and rice recipe.

Let me know what you think of my chicken sausage and rice recipe in the comments below!

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Spicy Chicken Sausage and Rice Recipe {Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free}

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

30 mins

Total Time

40 mins

 

This spicy chicken sausage and rice recipe is a one pot meal packed full of zesty flavors, perfect for a weeknight dinner meal. Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free too.

Course: Dinner

Cuisine: American, Healthy

Servings: 4

Calories: 402 kcal

Author: Vicky Berman

Ingredients

• 12 oz spicy chicken sausage cooked, havled and quartered, thinly sliced
• 2 large shallots diced
• 4 cloves garlic minced
• 1 cup rice
• 2- 2.5 cups chicken broth
• 2 cups baby arugula
• 1/2 -1 cup cilantro
• salt to taste
• 1 tablespoon coconut oil
• 1 lime zest and juice

Instructions

1. Heat pan oven medium heat and add oil. Cook chicken sausage over medium heat until browned, add onion, garlic and continue to cook for a few minutes.
2. Add rice, and lightly toast, mixing everything together.
3. Add chicken broth, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer, covered until rice is cooked through (around 15-20 minutes). Add salt to taste.
4. Add arugula, lime zest and juice, and cilantro. Toss until combined.

Nutrition Facts

Spicy Chicken Sausage and Rice Recipe {Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free}

Amount Per Serving

Calories 402 Calories from Fat 144

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 16g 25%

Saturated Fat 5g 25%

Cholesterol 60mg 20%

Sodium 1844mg 77%

Potassium 372mg 11%

Total Carbohydrates 47g 16%

Dietary Fiber 1g 4%

Sugars 2g

Protein 18g 36%

Vitamin A 10.8%

Vitamin C 33.9%

Calcium 6%

Iron 11.5%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.