one-pan street corn inspired chicken & rice

a not-boring way to eat chicken and rice + your dinner plan for the week!

Happy Friday y’all! Today’s my birthday and I have just one b-day gift request… please make this one-pan street corn inspired chicken and rice for dinner this week!! 🌽✨

We’ve got our May subscriber-only bonus recipe today, plus a meal plan for the week and grocery list to follow so you don’t even have to think about your dinner choices when Monday rolls around. You focus on everything else you have going on, I’ll focus on the meal planning 🫶 (and you’re also getting early access to another new recipe!)

This is a recipe idea that’s been in the back of my brain forever. It combines some of my favorite elements—crisp chicken thighs, creamy rice, and smokey spices—with ingredients I love in summer like corn, lime, and cilantro. I figured today would be a perfect day to share it because it’s truly one of my favorites so far! If you’re already a fan of my lemony chicken thighs and rice, garlic & sage chicken thighs and rice, or spinach & artichoke chicken and rice, you’re going to love this unique variation. She’s savory, a little spicy, a little smoky, and ridiculously easy to throw together. Plus, this is a gluten-free recipe that’s easily made dairy-free by adjusting your garnish choice. I call it street corn inspired because it has that same kind of creamy corn, bright citrus, and cotija topping that we all love on street corn. Now you can have it for dinner!

It’s another one to file under not-boring ways to eat chicken and rice and get into the dinner rotation. You’ll find the full recipe with step-by-step instructions and easy swaps below, plus a dinner plan and grocery list for the week that includes this one.

In the spirit of celebrating, I also have an exclusive sneak peek in today’s newsletter of my friend Casey Elsass’s brand new book What Can I Bring? that comes out May 20th! He shared his gluten-free loaf cake recipe with us early so we can make it for dessert this week 🥳 For those that love hosting and guesting, check it out and pre-order!

📣 Breakfast & lunch meal prep for this week can be found in the May Meal Prep Plan! The recipes and grocery list for this week are at the bottom of this post for you to add on.

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