One Pan Paprika Chicken Drumsticks and Rice

Slow simmering in broth and spices creates moist & flavorful rice and chicken, in this super affordable 45 minute one pot recipe for One Pan Paprika Chicken and Rice.

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Welcome to the February 12, 2017 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around ingredients that are either on sale or generally affordable. Up this week, we have a super easy (and super affordable!) recipe for One Pan Paprika Chicken Drumsticks and Rice.

How about that humble chicken drumstick! These are so affordable and so kid-friendly that I cook with them fairly often, but I recently realized that I haven’t actually posted many chicken drumstick recipes. Let’s remedy that starting with today’s easy one-pan dinner — which was also a great way to use up the last of the homemade vegetable broth in my fridge this week.

One Pan Paprika Chicken Drumsticks and Rice

Ingredients

2 Tbsp olive oil
3-3.5 lbs chicken drumsticks
Sea salt, to taste
Black pepper, to taste
2 tsp paprika, divided
1 small yellow onion, diced
4 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
1.5 cups chicken or vegetable broth
1/2 cup water
1 cup long grain white rice
2 tsp parsley
1.5 Tbsp lemon juice

Directions

Heat olive oil in a large pan over medium-high heat until shimmering. Rinse drumsticks, pat dry, and season on both sides with salt, pepper, and 1 tsp of the paprika. Sear drumsticks for about four minutes a side until browned on both sides, then remove to a separate plate. Add onion to pan and saute 3-4 minutes until beginning to brown and soften. Add garlic and saute another 30-60 seconds until beginning to brown.

Add broth, water, rice, parsley, and the rest of the paprika to pan and stir. Bring to a boil, stir again, and arrange chicken drumsticks on top of rice. Cover pan, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until liquid is mostly absorbed and rice and chicken are cooked through.

Remove pan from heat and let sit covered for 5 minutes until rice is thickened up. Remove the drumsticks to a separate plate and stir lemon juice into rice, then serve chicken with rice and a green veggie of choice. (I also garnished mine here with green onion for a bit of color, but that’s totally optional.)

This recipe is a flavorful blank slate…

I served my paprika chicken drumsticks & rice here with garlicky sauteed spinach, which went really well when mixed into the rice. You can also saute diced carrots and peas in with the onion in this recipe for a little more color and a pop of veggie flavor, or stir in some cooked broccoli florets at the end. You have lots of options here to incorporate different vegetables into the blank paprika rice canvas, depending what’s on sale or in season.

Slow simmering in broth and spices creates such moist & flavorful rice and chicken in this super affordable 45 minute one pot recipe. One Pan Paprika Chicken Drumsticks and Rice is naturally gluten free and dairy free.

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Slow simmering in broth and spices creates moist & flavorful rice and chicken, in this super affordable 45 minute one pot recipe.

Course dinner

Cuisine Chicken

Keyword chicken, chicken drumsticks, drumsticks, one pot meals, rice

Total Time 45 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Author Rachel Singer

Ingredients

• 2 Tbsp olive oil
• 3-3.5 lbs chicken drumsticks
• Sea salt to taste
• Black pepper to taste
• 2 tsp paprika divided
• 1 small yellow onion diced
• 4 cloves garlic peeled & minced (about 2 tsp minced)
• 1.5 cups chicken or vegetable broth
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 cup long grain white rice
• 2 tsp parsley
• 1.5 Tbsp lemon juice

Instructions

• Heat olive oil in a large pan over medium-high heat until shimmering.
• Rinse drumsticks, pat dry, and season on both sides with salt, pepper, and 1 tsp of the paprika.
• Sear drumsticks for about four minutes a side until browned on both sides, then remove to a separate plate.
• Add onion to pan and saute 3-4 minutes until beginning to brown and soften.
• Add garlic and saute another 30-60 seconds until beginning to brown.
• Add broth, water, rice, parsley, and the rest of the paprika to pan and stir.
• Bring to a boil, stir again, and arrange chicken drumsticks on top of rice.
• Cover pan, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until liquid is mostly absorbed and rice and chicken are cooked through.
• Remove pan from heat and let sit covered for 5 minutes until rice is thickened up.
• Remove the drumsticks to a separate plate and stir lemon juice into rice, then serve chicken with rice and a green veggie of choice.
• (I also garnished mine here with green onion for a bit of color, but that’s totally optional.)

Notes

I served my paprika chicken drumsticks & rice here with garlicky sauteed spinach, then mixed the spinach into the rice for a great flavor combination. You can saute diced carrots and peas in with the onion in this recipe for a little more color and a pop of veggie flavor, or stir in some cooked broccoli florets at the end — lots of options here to incorporate different vegetables into the blank paprika rice canvas, depending what’s on sale or in season. 

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