[Request] A chicken and rice baked dish that had cinnamon in it – the first thing I “learned” to cook outside of home, and I can’t find anything like it. Any ideas?
[Request] A chicken and rice baked dish that had cinnamon in it – the first thing I “learned” to cook outside of home, and I can’t find anything like it. Any ideas?
by SaabStory06
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SaabStory06
This photo is not mine, just pulled from the internet to resemble the rough idea because an attachment is required.
I don’t know if this is allowed, and I apologize if it isn’t, but I’d really like to find this recipe, as it’s been plaguing me for years now.
It’s not Lebanese Cinnamon Chicken, or anything else I can find on Google through relentless searching.
Story: My first boyfriend – who turned out to be an angry and somewhat abusive jerk, hence why I cannot contact him to try and ask – his parents had this recipe on an old index card in a little box of recipes.
The absolute closest thing I can find is the Campbell’s Chicken and Rice Bake ( https://www.campbells.com/recipes/one-dish-chicken-rice-bake ) which is very close in many ways, but it doesn’t include the main thing that’s getting me – cinnamon – as well as missing a few other things.
This dish I remember was chicken breasts placed in rice which had been mixed with Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup and water, but also the cream of chicken soup I’m like 90% sure. But unlike the recipe on the Campbell’s website, it also had some diced onions mixed in. And I don’t remember it having paprika, though I concede that and other spices were possible, but I do know for sure it had ground cinnamon. And not sprinkled over top of the chicken breasts like the paprika is here, but mixed in with the rice and everything, so it doesn’t seem like their family copied the recipe and just subbed cinnamon instead of paprika. The recipe cars wasn’t a clipping that came off of a can or anywhere, it was hand-written. This definitely seems like a really odd ingredient, and perhaps my modern palate would not like it, but I grew up with very little variety in food and I remember teenaged-me being very surprised that this was actually good. It was just the right balance of cinnamon to definitely be there, and not in an extremely subtle way, but it didn’t tip over into the “this is too much/it’s the dominant flavor” realm.
His family is white, American, and they didn’t do weird additions/changes to other recipes or have any particular love for cinnamon that would prompt an out-of-the-blue modification adding it to an established recipe.
So…did anyone else have something just like this? Is there a name for this dish, or does anyone have a recipe like that? Was it perhaps a popular modification to the Campbell’s chicken and rice bake? Or am I just desperate to think it’s special when really it was their family being kinda odd and changing this recipe in a strange way?
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This photo is not mine, just pulled from the internet to resemble the rough idea because an attachment is required.
I don’t know if this is allowed, and I apologize if it isn’t, but I’d really like to find this recipe, as it’s been plaguing me for years now.
It’s not Lebanese Cinnamon Chicken, or anything else I can find on Google through relentless searching.
Story:
My first boyfriend – who turned out to be an angry and somewhat abusive jerk, hence why I cannot contact him to try and ask – his parents had this recipe on an old index card in a little box of recipes.
The absolute closest thing I can find is the Campbell’s Chicken and Rice Bake ( https://www.campbells.com/recipes/one-dish-chicken-rice-bake ) which is very close in many ways, but it doesn’t include the main thing that’s getting me – cinnamon – as well as missing a few other things.
This dish I remember was chicken breasts placed in rice which had been mixed with Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup and water, but also the cream of chicken soup I’m like 90% sure. But unlike the recipe on the Campbell’s website, it also had some diced onions mixed in. And I don’t remember it having paprika, though I concede that and other spices were possible, but I do know for sure it had ground cinnamon. And not sprinkled over top of the chicken breasts like the paprika is here, but mixed in with the rice and everything, so it doesn’t seem like their family copied the recipe and just subbed cinnamon instead of paprika. The recipe cars wasn’t a clipping that came off of a can or anywhere, it was hand-written.
This definitely seems like a really odd ingredient, and perhaps my modern palate would not like it, but I grew up with very little variety in food and I remember teenaged-me being very surprised that this was actually good. It was just the right balance of cinnamon to definitely be there, and not in an extremely subtle way, but it didn’t tip over into the “this is too much/it’s the dominant flavor” realm.
His family is white, American, and they didn’t do weird additions/changes to other recipes or have any particular love for cinnamon that would prompt an out-of-the-blue modification adding it to an established recipe.
So…did anyone else have something just like this? Is there a name for this dish, or does anyone have a recipe like that? Was it perhaps a popular modification to the Campbell’s chicken and rice bake? Or am I just desperate to think it’s special when really it was their family being kinda odd and changing this recipe in a strange way?
Thank you all for your help.