My So So One Pot Spiced Chicken and Dirty Rice

What's Dirty Rice? Why is the rice dirty? Before I get into all that dirty business, let me tell you why I cooked dirty rice.

It was pretty much inspired by a dish I had recently at a restaurant - Grilled Portuguese Chicken & Dirty Rice. I was very intrigued by the "Dirty Rice" part and this is how the dish looked like.

I peered closely at the rice and there was nothing dirty about it hee..hee... Upon tasting, I'm afraid I was not a fan. I found the spices too heavily applied and the flavors were simply overwhelming. This coming from a person who loves strongly flavored food. 

But still, it got me intrigued enough to find out more about dirty rice. Apparently, dirty rice is a spicy and flavorful Cajun rice dish made from white rice and it gets its dirty colors from finely chopped chicken livers and ground meat. I see!

So I searched for recipes and found many different versions of dirty rice. All of them appeared to be delicious and I settled on one and gave it a go.

Unfortunately, although the chicken tasted rather good, the dirty rice was not so impressive. It needs tweaking to suit my taste buds. Because I did not find the dirty rice to my liking, I won't share the recipe here until I find one that I enjoyed eating.

But no, this dish did not go to waste as it was still decent enough to eat. All it needed was a few squishes of Lingham chili sauce and I was all good wahahaha!!!

Well, that's how it is. There is always a risk when trying out recipes for the first time. Don't worry. I am sure I will find a good one that I can share.