Creative Rice & Noodle Recipes (No Casserole or Spaghetti!)

Porcupine meatballs is what my mom calls it.
Roll some handmade meatballs with minute rice, place in pan with extra rice and add 2 large cans of tomato soup
Cook until rice is tender and meatballs are cooked through
Salt and pepper to taste.
 
I sometimes take chicken pieces (thighs are my favorite but it will work with any meat) and slow cook it in spaghetti sauce. The meat gets super-tender. I serve it on a bed of rice.
 
Stuffed cabbage my grandmas way: use beef mixed with rice to stuff the steamed cabbage leaves. Arrange in a casserole dish. Pour tomato sauce with some sugar over all and bake until cooked through. Delicious!
 
do chicken cutlets. then butter, garlic, tomato paste, add cream and spinach, your fav seasonings, melty cheese, let it all cook down. then put cutlet on top of it. super simple and very delicious
 
Rice, butter, onion, sauerkraut, and bacon. Pair with pierogis. Rice pudding, rice cooked in coconut milk and water with onion and thyme, red kidney beans. Pair with jerk chicken
 
Wrap chicken veggies rice and seasonings and Italian dressing in foil bake in oven until done and it's delicious, already portioned dinner
 
Peachy Pork/Chicken Picante: cube pork/chicken into 1 inch cubes, dust meat with taco seasoning. Lightly fry in skillet. Add 1/3C peach preserves and 1C salsa (or 1 can of rotel). Simmer. Serve over rice.
 
Can be made with chicken breasts or thighs or pork chops.
Pork Chops with Orange Rice
Easy pork chops baked with orange juice and rice for an easy weeknight meal.
4 pork chops boneless or bone-in
3 cups instant rice
1 can chicken broth
1 1/2 cups orange juice
1 can chicken rice soup *Campbells
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
Preheat oven to 375.
In a pan: brown the pork chops and season with salt and pepper on both sides as they cook.
Pour the rice, soup mixture, orange juice and chicken broth together into a 9x13 glass baking dish. Stir it together.
Place the pork chops on top of the rice and cover with tinfoil.
Bake for 35-45 minutes covered with foil. When you take it out of the oven, the rice should be cooked and most of the liquid absorbed.
Recipe Notes:
Serve with sautéd carrots in with the rice or on the side.
Garnish with flat leaf Italian Parsley and sliced oranges if desired.
 
Cheeseburger Rice Hotdish
1# browned hamburger with 1 small diced onion, salt and pepper. Drain.
Add 1 1/2 cups water, 1/2 cup ketchup, 2 Tablsp. Yellow mustard. Bring to a boil, stir in 1 1/2 instant rice. Cover and remove from heat.
Let sit 5 minutes, do not remove lid.
Uncover, fluff with fork. Add 3/4 cup grated cheddar cheese. Cover for 3-5 minutes to melt cheese.
 
[ ] Lasagna Fake Out. Cook crumble and drain 1# ground beef. Add 1 jar spaghetti sauce and 1 can petite diced tomatoes. Simmer. Add 1 pkg cheese ravioli/tortellini. Simmer until pasta is done. Can top with shredded mozarella cheese.
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Two boneless chicken breast, one can of cream of chicken soup, one can of water (I use the empty soup can), one pack dry Italian dressing. I put in a crock pot on low for 4 hours on low, mix altogether and then shred. I add on one drained can of french style green beans and cooked penne pasta
 
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