One-Pot Chicken Bacon Ranch Rice
on Feb 02, 2021, Updated Mar 13, 2025
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Hands down the best quick and convent dinner for the family, One-Pot Chicken Bacon Ranch Rice will be your new favorite.
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What Makes This Recipe Great
Are you ready to meet your new favorite weeknight dinner recipe? It’s definitely going to be this one-pot chicken bacon ranch rice!!
With 2 kiddos, dinner can be even harder to get together. When I made this recipe, we all ate it up so quickly and knew it was going to be a staple from here on out. It’s great for kiddos because it tastes like a big bowl of ranch dressing, but it has kale and hidden cauliflower packed inside too! I love adding cauliflower to dishes like this because it basically just falls apart and mixes into everything so you can’t even tell it’s there.
Ingredient List
- Bacon– try peppered bacon for an extra kick
- Chicken– either breast or thighs will work
- Brown Rice– be sure and use regular brown rice and not quick cooking
- Water
- Salt and Pepper
- Garlic Powder
- Cauliflower Florets– either frozen or fresh will work
- Ranch Dressing
- Kale– you can usually find a bag of pre chopped and trimmed in the ready made salad section in your
Step By Step
- You will start with cooking the bacon first until crispy. Once that gets cooked down remove the bacon and most of the oil, only leaving about a tbsp to the pan.
- Add the chicken to the bacon grease and cook down stirring occasionally.
- Toss the cooked bacon, rice, water, salt, garlic powder, pepper and bring to a slight boil and then lower heat.
- Next add the cauliflower and ranch dressing and mix everything together. Now just let it cook for 35 min checking half way and mix.
- Lastly add the kale and cook for 5 min without the lid. Enjoy!
Pro Tip
- If you are not dairy free feel free to use any ranch dressing of your choosing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the rice go in raw or cooked?
- The rice goes into the pot raw with the water and spice and cooked bacon, then you bring to a boil and a the rice cooks in all the delicious flavors. This is what makes this recipe sooo flavorful.
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One-Pot Chicken Bacon Ranch Rice
Ingredients
- 8 slices bacon chopped
- 1 lb chopped chicken breasts, raw chopped
- 1 cup brown rice
- 2 cups water, or chicken stock for extra flavor
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- ¼ tsp ground pepper
- 3 cups chopped cauliflower florets
- ½ cup ranch dressing*
- 3 cups chopped kale
Instructions
- Place a pot (like a dutch oven) over medium heat.
- Cook chopped bacon until crispy then remove and set aside. Drain all but 1 tbsp of bacon grease from the pot and return it to the heat.
- Place the chicken in the pot and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes.
- Return bacon to pot and add rice, water, salt, garlic powder and pepper.
- Bring to a slight boil, then lower the heat to low.
- Add cauliflower and ranch dressing and mix to combine, then cover.
- Cook for 35 min, checking halfway through to stir.
- Then remove the lid, add kale and cook for another 5 minutes uncovered.
I feel stupid asking but is it uncooked rice if so my rice did not cook in 35 minutes I’m not sure what I did wrong
Yes the rice should be uncooked when it goes into the pot. What kind of rice did you use?
Doubled this so I could bring this to a new mom friend and keep some for us!! Used a bag of frozen cauliflower rice instead of the cauliflower florets and then grated a zucchini in the last few minutes of cooking because that’s what we had instead of kale! Also I used jasmine rice. It was AMAZING! So delish and also obviously very customizable! 🙂 loved you on the car pool!
Love all the substitutes you made with what you had on hand!!