Prep & Bake Tex-Mex Chicken & Rice
Includes recyclable aluminum tray
- Milk
This Mexican-inspired dish comes together with minimal prep and a breezy cleanup, thanks to our oven-ready trays. You’ll season chicken with a blend of fajita-style spices and set atop saucy black beans. In a second tray, buttery Tex-Mex-spiced rice bakes alongside. Assemble your perfect bowls, top with sour cream and fresh cilantro, then toss the trays!
Ingredients
3 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
1 unit
Microwavable Rice
2 unit
Oven-Ready Tray
1 unit
Chicken Stock Concentrate
1 tablespoon
Fajita Spice Blend
1 unit
Black Beans
10 ounce
Chicken Cutlets
1 unit
Tex-Mex Paste
¼ ounce
Cilantro
Not included in your delivery
2 tablespoon (tbsp)
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
1 teaspoon (tsp)
Olive Oil
½ teaspoon (tsp)
Sugar
teaspoon (tsp)
Salt
teaspoon (tsp)
Black Pepper
Nutrition Values
Cooking Steps
Adjust rack to top position (top and middle positions for 4 servings) and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Wash and dry produce. Drain and rinse beans.
Combine beans, stock concentrate, 2 TBSP of water, a pinch of salt, and pepper in oven-ready tray.
Pat chicken* dry with paper towels. Season all over with Fajita Spice Blend, salt, and pepper. Place seaoned chicken on top of beans. Spread half the Tex Mex paste (all the Tex Mex for 4)
Place tray on the top rack and bake for 15-20 minutes, until chicken browned and cooked through.
Meanwhile, roughly chop cilantro, reserving half for garnish. In a small bowl, combine sour cream and cilantro. Add a splash of water, 1 tsp at a time, until drizzling consistency. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside until ready to serve.
When chicken has 5 minutes remaining, massage rice in package to break up grains; partially open package. Microwave for 90 seconds. Stir in 1 TBSP butter (1 TBSP per package for 4)
Transfer chicken to a cutting board. Let rest 5 minutes, then slice crosswise.
Stir in 2 TBSP butter to beans until saucy and combined.
Divide rice, chicken, and beans on plates in spearate sections. Top chicken and beans with cilantro crema. Garnish with remaining cilantro. Serve.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Feb 2026- Flavor: Many enjoyed the dish, but some found it bland. Consider adding extra spices, salsa, or cheese for more flavor punch 🌶️.
- Ease of prep: Customers loved the quick, easy prep and minimal cleanup. The oven-ready trays were a hit for convenience.
- Suggestions: Try browning the chicken first for better texture. Adding tortillas to make fajitas was a popular tweak.
- Portions: Rice and bean quantities were satisfying for most, though a few wanted more sauce for the chicken.
- Cooking tips: Some found the chicken needed longer to cook through. Check with a meat thermometer for doneness.
Reviews from our home cooks
I loved this meal! Now a lot of these meals are very quick and easy to make, but this is the quickest and easiest and that's one reason why I loved it so much. It was also very tasty for quick, easy, simple dinner. It was very tasty and the cleanup was fast and easy. I will definitely order this again, please make more of these types!
This was surprisingly good. Most of the tray bakes I've tried so far have been just ok and needed a lot of tinkering to be good. This one was good as is!
Perfect as-is, but I added whole cilantro sprigs to both the rice & bean trays before baking and then stirred them in to enhance the flavors.
Everything tasted good. The only negative was after cooking the beans were sitting in too much liquid like soup, required a slotted spoon.
Had really great flavor but was a bit too heavy in heat for me with the rice. Didn't even use all of the Tex mex sauce and I still struggled. Otherwise it was delicious!
Tasty and actually enough portions for two. Usually HF is skimpy
Easy and good. We ate with tortillas and made it into fajitas.
So easy and very flavorful! Wish it had cheese and more veggies though!
Excellent balance of ingredients, flavor and cook time. Will order again
Rice and beans were the best part of this recipe and were really good! The chicken was too bland for me.
