Chicken Continental

Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins Preparation Time: 35 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 6 lbs frying chicken
• 3/4 cup butter or 3/4 cup margarine
• 5 tablespoons dried onion
• 2 tablespoons dried parsley
• 2/3 cup flour, seasoned with
• salt and pepper
• 1 teaspoon dried celery flakes
• 1/4 teaspoon thyme
• 1 teaspoon paprika, and additional
• paprika, sprinkled for garnish
• 2 2/3 cups water
• 2 2/3 cups minute rice
• 2 (10 3/4 ounce) cans cream of chicken soup

Recipe

• 1 for easy and quick cooking, mix all your spices into a prep bowl.
• 2 season flour with salt and pepper.
• 3 melt butter or margarine into a deep frying pan.
• 4 dip chicken into flour to coat it.
• 5 brown chicken until slightly brown.
• 6 remove chicken to platter while cooking additional chicken.
• 7 after frying all the chicken, loosen all the bits of browned bits in frying pan with spoon.
• 8 add two cans of cream of chicken soup.
• 9 add 2-2/3 cups of water also and mix well.
• 10 add all the spices and let come to a slow boil.
• 11 turn off flame.
• 12 remove about 2/3 of a cup of this soup mixture for later.
• 13 pour soup mixture into your baking dish or pan that is oven proof.
• 14 mix rice into soup mixture until completely mixed.
• 15 lay chicken pieces on top of rice placing legs and wings to the outer edge so the bigger pieces cook better in the middle.
• 16 pour the reserved 2/3 cup of leftover soup mixture sparingly over the top, covering all the chicken pieces.
• 17 sprinkle a tiny amount of paprika onto chicken and cover dish.
• 18 bake on 350 degrees for one hour and uncover the last 10-15 minutes of baking time.
• 19 absolutely delicious comfort food!