I wasn’t sure what to call it. I just whipped dinner in 30 minutes, 10 minutes prepping, 30 minutes thinking about what to cook the whole way home from work. That’s  pretty much my routine. I can’t  follow meal plan, I am more of oh I have this and that let’s make this 😂😂. Even recipe, I can’t  even follow a recipe as is. I have to always make my own twist. Sometimes when I cook, I just throw this and that to the pot and be done. My habit taking picture of my food did not help as I did not write down what I did. So I found myself staring at the pictures and try to figure out what I did. How to make that. 

Now I am better with adding what I do as I make something.  I use this blog as my journal of my cooking journey. 

This meal tonight ended up less than $10 … again. I have a whole young chicken that I bought for $6 and only uses the breast part in this recipe. The rest is just canned tomatoes, tomato paste, seasonings, onion, garlic, rice, frozen peas, chicken broth which I made in Instant pot and freeze tons of them.

Here is the list of ingredients:

• 1 whole bone in chicken breast
• 1 (14.5 oz) canned diced tomatoes 
• 4 cloves of garlic, crushed 
• 2 teaspoons oregano
• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon red pepper

Dumped everything  in instant pot. Closed the lid, sealed the vent, press manual 30 minutes. Once it beeped,  let it sit for 10 minutes before release the little pressure left and shred the chicken,  take the bone  out. I use 2 forks and shred them in the pot.

Now while the chicken  cooking, I started my rice. Into the pot, all ingredients for the rice below. Closed the lid, sealed the vent, press manual 4 minutes then once it beeped let it sit for 6 minutes. Then fluff  the rice. 

• 2 cups jasmine rice,  coz that’s  what I have and love
• 1/2 cups diced tomatoes
• 1 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1/2 small onion, diced
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 teaspoons salt
• 1/4 cups frozen peas
• 2 cups chicken broth

Serve the chicken with the rice and topped with shredded cheese and a squeeze of lemon juice.

My 11 years old had second. He even finished his dinner before I finished mine. So I guess dinner was a truly winner winner chicken dinner.