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No-Peek Chicken

No-Peek Chicken
Prep Time:
15 mins
Bake Time:
1 hr 15 mins
Total Time:
1 hr 30 mins
Servings:
8

This easy chicken dinner is fast to assemble and very flavorful—a total win for weeknight dinners. It's a complete meal in one casserole dish that's flavored with cream of mushroom soup and onion soup mix. Cooking the dish tightly sealed without peeking ensures each bite is moist and perfectly cooked. Get our no-peek chicken recipe including tips for serving it.

What Is No-Peek Chicken?

No-peek chicken is a casserole made with rice, cream of mushroom soup, chicken thighs, and onion soup mix. The ingredients are layered into a baking dish and covered tightly with aluminum foil. It's baked until the rice is fluffy and the chicken is completely cooked. Don't peek until the dish is done or you'll let out the steam that helps keep it moist!

No-Peek Chicken Ingredients

To make no-peek chicken and rice, you'll need a handful of pantry staples.

  • Rice: Choose long grain white rice for this no peeking chicken recipe.
  • Water: Adding water to the canned soup is what helps cook the rice.
  • Soup: Our Test Kitchen preferred the flavor combination of a can of cream of mushroom soup and a can of cream of chicken soup.
  • Veggies: You can customize this dish with your favorite vegetables but we recommend chopped onion and bell pepper.
  • Soup Mix: A packet of onion soup mix flavors this chicken and rice casserole.
  • Chicken: For the most flavorful results, choose boneless, skinless chicken thighs.
  • Green Onion: Once the casserole comes out of the oven, top it with sliced green onions.

How to Make No-Peek Chicken and Rice

This dump and bake casserole is incredibly easy to assemble. The key is layer in the ingredients.

  1. Combine the rice, water, canned soup, and vegetables.
  2. Sprinkle on the onion soup mix and gently stir to combine.
  3. Top with the boneless, skinless chicken thighs and tightly cover the dish with foil.
  4. Bake until the rice is cooked. When checking no peek chicken, take a small scoop of rice from the middle and squish it between your fingers or taste it for doneness. Sprinkle with sliced green onion and serve.

How to Serve No-Peek Chicken

This chicken casserole is great on its own but we like serving it with roasted vegetables and a green salad. It's also great with steamed carrots or broccoli.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups long grain white rice

  • 2 cups water

  • 1 (10.5-ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup

  • 1 (10.5-ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup

  • 1 cup chopped onion

  • 1 cup chopped green bell pepper and/or red bell pepper

  • 1 (1-ounce) package dried onion soup mix

  • 8 skinless boneless chicken thighs (about 2 pounds)

  • 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt

  • 1/4 cup sliced green onion

  • Fresh parsley

Directions

  1. Combine Ingredients

    Preheat oven to 350°F. In a 3-qt. rectangular baking dish stir together rice, water, both cans of soup, onion, and bell peppers. Sprinkle half the onion soup mix over rice mixture. Stir to incorporate.

  2. Add Chicken

    Season chicken with seasoned salt and remaining onion soup mix. Place chicken over rice mixture. Tightly cover dish with foil.

  3. Bake

    Bake until rice is tender and chicken is fully cooked (175°F), about 1 hour 15 minutes, keeping tightly covered. If rice is not done, cover and bake an additional 15 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes, covered. Top with green onion and fresh parsley and serve.

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

466 Calories
24g Fat
25g Carbs
39g Protein
Nutrition Facts
Servings Per Recipe 8
Calories 465.8
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 24.2g 31%
Saturated Fat 7.3g 36%
Cholesterol 189.6mg 63%
Sodium 1177.4mg 51%
Total Carbohydrate 25g 9%
Dietary Fiber 1.3g 5%
Total Sugars 4.5g
Protein 38.6g 77%
Vitamin D 1mcg 5%
Vitamin C 14.9mg 17%
Calcium 96.1mg 7%
Iron 2.7mg 15%
Potassium 590.6mg 13%
Fatty acids, total trans 0.2g
Vitamin D 42.9IU
Alanine 1.9g
Arginine 2.2g
Ash 4.9g
Aspartic acid 3.1g
Caffeine 0mg
Carotene, alpha 4.4mcg
Choline, total 155mg
Copper, Cu 0.2mg
Cystine 0.4g
Energy 1949.5kJ
Fluoride, F 58.4mcg
Folate, total 40.8mcg
Glutamic acid 5.7g
Glycine 1.4g
Histidine 1g
Isoleucine 1.5g
Leucine 2.7g
Lysine 2.9g
Methionine 0.9g
Magnesium, Mg 53.3mg
Manganese, Mn 0.3mg
Niacin 9.7mg
Phosphorus, P 381mg
Pantothenic acid 2.2mg
Phenylalanine 1.3g
Phytosterols 6.6mg
Proline 1.4g
Retinol 62.1mcg
Selenium, Se 51.4mcg
Serine 1.4g
Theobromine 0mg
Threonine 1.5g
Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) 1.1mg
Tryptophan 0.4g
Tyrosine 1.2g
Valine 1.6g
Vitamin A, IU 341.7IU
Vitamin A, RAE 68.6mcg
Vitamin B-12 0.8mcg
Vitamin B-6 0.7mg
Vitamin K (phylloquinone) 17.7mcg
Water 319.5g
Zinc, Zn 3.3mg

*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

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