Wild rice, mushrooms, spinach, and chicken - the perfect one pan meal

90 Minutes (mostly cooking time) • Gluten-free • Low FODMAP • Serves 4 • This wild rice, mushroom, spinach, and chicken one-pan meal is healthy, filling, and delicious.

INGREDIENTS:

2 tablespoons butter

1 tablespoon garlic-infused olive oil

2 leeks (green part only) chopped

Kosher salt and pepper

6 ounces oyster mushrooms

2 tablespoons fresh chopped thyme, plus more for serving

2 1/2 cups low FODMAP chicken broth

1/2 cup white wine or more low FODMAP chicken broth

2 cups wild rice*

1 - 1 1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces

2 cups baby spinach

1 1/2 cups shredded Gruyère cheese

DIRECTIONS:

Melt the butter and olive oil in a large, oven-safe skillet over medium heat. Add the leek greens and cook for about 3 minutes to soften. Season with salt and pepper. Add the mushrooms, cook another 3 minutes or until the mushrooms start to brown/caramelize. Stir in the thyme and cook another minute longer. 

Pour in the 2 cups chicken broth and the wine and bring to a boil over high heat. Stir in the rice and chicken, bring back to a boil, then cover, and reduce the heat to low. Simmer for 45-55 minutes or until the rice is fully cooked, if needed, add the remaining 1/2-1 cup broth during cooking if the rice gets a bit dry before it’s fully cooked. Remove from the heat and stir in the spinach. 

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. 

Sprinkle the cheese over top of the rice and transfer it to the oven. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until the cheese has melted. Remove from the oven and serve with additional fresh thyme.

* Rice is a great staple food on the low FODMAP diet. To date, Monash University has tested white, brown, basmati, and red rice, and each is low FODMAP in 1 cup servings of cooked rice. Based on the other rice results, my guess is that jasmine, wild or black rice would also test low FODMAP. If you are on a low FODMAP elimination diet and you want to be extra “safe”, I would recommend waiting to test your individual tolerance for wild rice until after the elimination phase. In this case, you can substitute one of the other tested types of rice for wild rice in this recipe.

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