Pineapple Orange Chicken /w Rice

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup any rice, uncooked
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 cloves garlic, fine chopped
• 1 tablespoon fresh grated ginger (optional)
• 1 1/2 lbs boneless chicken breasts, cut into 1 inch cubes
• 1 large seedless orange, peeled and cut up into â½ inch cubes
• 1 orange, zest of (if you would like more of a pineapple taste, skip this)
• 1 (14 ounce) can pineapple tidbits in juice
• 1/2 cup marcella wine or 1/2 cup other sweet wine or 1/2 cup water or 1/2 cup pineapple juice
• 1 tablespoon lime juice

Recipe

• 1 pre-cook the rice, any method you like.
• 2 preheat oven to 350 deg.
• 3 in a 3 qt dutch oven or other oven safe pan with cover.
• 4 heat the olive oil add the garlic and ginger sauté until garlic just starts to turn brown.
• 5 add chicken and sauté until partially cooked.
• 6 add pineapple/w juice, orange and zest, mix.
• 7 add cooked rice and mix well again.
• 8 add wine and lime, mix.
• 9 cover and place in oven for 20 minute.
• 10 if too much liquid take cover off, finished dish should be very moist with only a little liquid in bottom of pan.