This cupcake chicken with rice is one of the best frugal meals you ever have. The best part? is that you use the leftover rice that nobody will eat, so you will use it in this amazing recipe.
This recipe is perfect all year around, everytime you have some leftover rice and a little of chicken. I love to do this cupcake chicken with rice every time I buy a rotissere chicken, I can get 3 recipes meals from 1 chicken.
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Budget Ingredients and Substitutes
I love to use Rotisserie chicken for this recipe because it helps to make a quick and easy meal. You can use any type of cheese, you only need a cheese that melt.
And the rice is perfect using a leftover rice.
- Shreeded chicken
- leftover rice
- cheese
- corn
- eggs
- oil
See recipe card for quantities.
Equipment
You need a muffin tin for this recipe.
Instructions
This cupcake chicken with rice is one of the most easiest recipe ever. You just mix everything bake them and done.
Grease very well the muffins tins, and even on the outside so they dont get stuck there. Add your mixture you get around 12 to 15 muffins.
Preheat your oven at 350F. Once we finish to add all of our mixture to the muffins, we are going to cover them with aluminium foil so the rice wont dry and be so hard when eat it.
Cook them for 15 to 20 minutes. Follow the recipe for more details.
Once they are out of the oven, let them rest for 5 minutes on the muffins tins. Then, carefully remove them using a knife and add some sour cream salsa if you desire too.
Hint: You can make a mixture of FLour,Oil and Shortening same quantity . Mix it up and use it to grease your muffins tins, they wont get stick to your pan.Use if for your cakes as well. Zlways work.
Substitutions
Here we have a few substitutes that you can do for this cupcake chicken.
- Chicken- If you don't have rotisserie chicken 1 chicken breast does the job.
- Cheese- use any cheese of your preference that melts
- Corn- you can use any beggies that you would like.
RICE RECIPES
Storage
This cupcake chicken you can keep in the fridge up to 1 week, in a container with lid so the rice and the chicken don't get dry and hard.
You can freeze the leftover rice for up to 1 month. You can freeze the chicken as well so you can have a quick dinner when needs it.
Top tip
You must cover the muffin tin before bake them with aluminium foilder other wise the rice will be very hard to eat.
FAQ
Yes, any type works.
Yes, it is important that you use the rice that is cold and preferebly 1 day or more old. If you use a warm rice it will be smushy, not good at all.
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Pairing
These are my favorite dishes to serve with [this recipe]:
CUPCAKE CHICKEN
Ingredients
- 3 cups leftrover rice
- 1 ½ cup shredded chicken you can use 1 chicken breast
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 cup corn you can use any veggies
- 1 ½ cup cheese use any cheese that melts
- 3 eggs
- salt and pepper if you need it
Instructions
- In a big bowl add all the ingredients and mix it up very well.grease your muffin tin very well and add your mixture you will get around 12 to 15 muffins depends how you fill them uppreheat the oven 375F once you add all the mixture to your muffin tin , cover them with aluminium foil. Bake them for 15 minutes.get them out of the oven, and let them rest for 5 minutes. After the 5 minutes, gently using a knife go around the muffin and get them out.You can add some sour cream and salsa if you would like.
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