Brazilian

Canja de Galinha (Chicken and Rice Soup)

Name: Canja de Galinha (Chicken and Rice Soup)
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Brazilian
Ingredients: 2 lb bone-in chicken pieces; 1/2 cup long grain rice; 1 carrot; 1 onion; 2 garlic cloves; 1 tbsp cooking oil; 2 tbsp cilantro; 1 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Fernanda @feijoadaqueen

Canja de Galinha (Chicken and Rice Soup) is Brazilian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

45 min Medium Dairy free Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 lb bone-in chicken pieces
1/2 cup long grain rice
1 carrot
1 onion
2 garlic cloves
1 tbsp cooking oil
2 tbsp cilantro
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oil in a pot and saute the diced onion and garlic 3 minutes.
Add the chicken pieces and 8 cups of water and bring to a simmer.
Skim any foam and simmer 30 minutes until the chicken is cooked through.
Lift out the chicken, shred the meat off the bone, and return it to the pot with the diced carrot and rice.
Simmer 15 minutes more until the rice is tender.
Season with salt and pepper, scatter with cilantro, and serve hot, the classic sick-day comfort.

Watch how to cook Canja de Galinha (Chicken and Rice Soup)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

CANJA DE GALINHA SUPER FÁCIL E RÁPIDA | Nandu Andrade Play the video

Serve it with

A Brazilian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Canja de Galinha (Chicken and Rice Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The protein alongside
- Feijao Carioca (Brazilian Pink Beans)
  
  50 min
What it is eaten with
- Arroz Branco (Brazilian White Rice)
  
  25 min
Something cool and fresh
- Maionese de Batata (Brazilian Potato Salad)
  
  35 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Canja de Galinha (Chicken and Rice Soup) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Canja de Galinha (Chicken and Rice Soup)
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 380 kcal
Protein: 37 g
Carbs: 22 g
Fat: 16 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 580 mg
Saturated fat: 5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Canja de Galinha (Chicken and Rice Soup) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.