Mediterranean Chicken & Brown Rice Casserole

Name: Mediterranean Chicken & Brown Rice Casserole Recipe
Yield: 14
Ingredients: 2-3 large boneless skinless chicken breasts or 6 small ones; 1.25 cups feta cheese crumbled; 6 cups cooked brown rice; 1 10 oz package frozen spinach thawed and squeezed of excess liquid; 1 28 oz can tomatoes diced or whole with juice (if they are whole you will have to break them up yourself); 1/4 cup sun dried tomatoes chopped; 4-5 garlic cloves chopped fine; 1.5 tbsp olive oil; 1/4 cup grated romano cheese; salt pepper basil and oregano to taste

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Number of Servings: 14

Ingredients

2-3 large boneless skinless chicken breasts or 6 small ones1.25 cups feta cheese, crumbled6 cups cooked brown rice1 10 oz package frozen spinach thawed and squeezed of excess liquid1 28 oz can tomatoes, diced or whole with juice (if they are whole you will have to break them up yourself)1/4 cup sun dried tomatoes, chopped4-5 garlic cloves, chopped fine1.5 tbsp olive oil1/4 cup grated romano cheesesalt, pepper, basil, and oregano to taste

Directions

Put olive oil in large pan, cold and add garlic. Turn on heat to medium, this way the garlic flavor really comes out if you start it in a cold pan. When the garlic has started to soften, add chicken and par cook, about 3 minutes. Add can of tomatoes, turn heat on low, cover and let simmer for 20 minutes or so. Remove chicken breasts and set aside to chop up into rough bite sized pieces when they've cooled off a little bit. Add sun dried tomatoes and herbs. Add the rest of the ingredients except for the romano and mix thoroughly. Place in a large baking dish and sprinkle with grated romano. Bake for 25 minutes or until cheese is brown on top.

Makes 14.5 1 cup servings.

Number of Servings: 14

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user JULIAKELLY.

Servings Per Recipe: 14

Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving

Calories: 195.4
Total Fat: 5.0 g
Cholesterol: 28.7 mg
Sodium: 241.9 mg
Total Carbs: 24.1 g
Dietary Fiber: 2.7 g
Protein: 13.5 g

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Member Reviews

THEBIGRJ
A huge Hit! I have made it about 5 times so far and tweaked it a bit too.
I often make the rice and the chicken the night before, I poach the chicken and then just shredd it. Hints: Short grain brown rice is tastiest. A big bag of fresh spinach beats frozen. Bake at 375 for @ 40 minutes at my place - 1/20/10
ANMRUNNER
I went to the olive bar at the grocery & picked up some black & green olives mixed with feta & used that in this recipe--GREAT addition. I skipped the sun dried tomatoes & used stewed NSA tomatoes; I chopped the chicken before I put it in the pan so that definitely saved some time. Wonderful recipe! - 8/22/10
LIZWINSTEAD
Delicious! Was so good I forgot to add the Romono cheese at the end. Used fresh spinach and it worked fine. Baked at 350 for 20 minutes at the end. My family raved and my husband said this is a "repeater!" I agree! - 1/18/10
APRILFIORE
What temperature do we bake it on? - 1/26/09
AWOLF24
Really good!! Used less chicken, less rice, less olive oil, and fat free tomato basil feta. In my tracker I'm counting 8 servings as 1.5 servings of this recipe and leaving it at that. Will definitely make it again! - 2/2/10
THAI_DYE
Freaking delicious. I also dropped the brown rice to only 3 cups and chopped up the chicken breast before cooking it. When I recalculated the calories I figured it as 7 servings for the entire casserole and it came to 288 calories! I struggle getting my protein for the day, so 25g is awesome. - 4/27/12
MOM2GINGER
Why don't you cut up the chicken BEFORE you cook it? Cutting it into bite-sized pieces is a lot easier to do before it's cooked. - 1/26/09
NO-41_RAZZYS_PL
Sub saltier feta w/cubes of firm tofu, mozzarella, paneer/panir (bland Indian curd cheese served w/peas or spinach) or Haloumi/Halloumi (salty crumbly cheese from Cyprus) pronounced, hah-LOO-me. Sub romano (high in fat, but sharp flavor) w/parmesan (not as sharp/salty) or Monterey jack. - 1/8/09
CHRIS1091
This was Yummy! My whole family enjoyed it. I took the posted suggestions and added some black olives and lemon juice. I will be making this again. - 1/4/09
SPECBEARCA
Great stuff! Whole family enjoyed this. Used black olives instead of sun dried tomatoes, and added lemon juice before baking. Will probably use low fat feta next time and add extra on top instead of romano.
Thanks for the great recipe! - 1/1/09
ARA0926
I made this last night and it was delish. However I made some modifications based on what I had.
4 cups of rice (trader Joe's frozen brown rice)
1 small onion sliced
1/4 cup chopped Kalmata Olives
1 bag fresh spinach
1 cup roughly chopped artichoke hearts (frozen TJ's)
Omitted Sun Dried tomat - 2/8/12
SPARKYTEACHER
I love it that this recipe tells what a serving is equal to (1 cup). That is very helpful! - 1/3/12
CD8812747
Awesome! Next time I'm going to add olives and artichokes to this! - 4/4/11
JOEMARCHESANI
Even my mother, who's been cooking Italian for 65 years, liked it! - 1/16/11
CD6876546
My family thought this was pretty good and went back for seconds. I didn't have any spinach on hand (which is odd), so I used chopped broccoli. I also substituted ground turkey in for chicken...just easier and it's what I had on hand. It turned out a *little* dry, so I threw in some tomato sauce :) - 1/5/11
PATRICIAANN46
This is so good. - 6/7/20
HOLLYM48
I love this Mediterranean chicken and Brown rice Casserole Recipe! - 4/24/20
NASFKAB
Great idea - 6/16/19
SRIVERS1
This is really good. So many ways to fix this. - 9/27/18
CD1730434
I sometimes leave out the cheese if I'm cooking for people who are dairy intolerant. Still works well! Especially loved by my Middle Eastern friends and co-workers! - 2/17/17
GABEPEG
I left out the sundried tomatoes, but I made this today and it was so good. Also ended up substituting Parmesan for Romano cheese. I'm thinking of putting in artichokes and mushrooms next time. This dish definitely changed my mother's opinion on brown rice! - 3/1/15
PATRICE_E
Delicious! Out of spinach, but had a big bunch of parsley which was yummy! - 4/8/13
STANPH08
Just tried this today. It was fantastic! I substituted 4.5 cups of couscous for the rice, and used a fresh bag of spinach. Will be making this again for sure! - 3/20/13
REREBIGMAMA
Very tasty and easy to make. This dish is one my family really enjoyed. I did spice it up a bit with some garlic powder added to the list of spices. Also, being generous with the oregano and basil made it truely Italian tasting. - 1/20/13
1STTOOHIASMOM
Really good recipe - I had to reduce the amounts of everything because there are only 2 of us (a by guess & by gosh reduction down to about 1/3 of the original), but it is quite tasty. Love feta!!
- 10/5/12