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Chicken and Spinach Rice

IT’S A COLD, wet night after a hectic day at work. Even so, I’m starting to get excited for dinner because I know it’s chicken and rice tonight. Maybe it’s because I grew up eating an unbelievably simple and comforting version my mom made (literally just chicken legs, water, rice, salt, and pepper), but there’s just no other combination I find as fulfilling or fortifying as tender, braised chicken on a bed of rice that’s enriched with all the rendered fat and juices from the bird.

But I

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