Nigerian One-pot Chicken Dinner

==Ingredients ==
* 1 large chicken, cut in quarters or chicken pieces
* 2 cups water
* 1 onion, thinly sliced
* 1 stalk celery, cut into 1" sections
* 1 teaspoon salt
* ⅛ teaspoon crushed dried red pepper
* 2 tomatoes
* 1 green pepper, sliced
* 1 tablespoon lemon juice
* 1 tablespoon tomato paste
* ½ teaspoon chili powder
* 10 ounces package frozen okra
* 2 cups cooked rice
== Directions ==
# In a large pot or dutch oven place chicken, water, onion, celery, salt and crushed pepper.
# Cover and cook over moderately high heat until comes to a boil, reduce heat to moderately low and simmer 30 minutes.
# While chicken is cooking, place tomatoes in a pan of boiling water for ½ min.
# Spoon tomatoes out of the water and remove skin. Cut into eighths.
# Add tomatoes, green pepper, lemon juice, tomato paste, and chili powder to chicken.
# Continue cooking for 10 minutes.
# Add okra to pot, cover and cook another 15 minutes.
# Stirring once or twice.
# Spoon rice into soup bowls and top with chicken mixture.
# When making casseroles, I do not put the rice in with everything else if I am going to be freezing or storing.
# White rice can be frozen in the casserole but I find that if i use brown rice, it gives everything a distinctly grainy flavor that i find disagreeable.
# So i will put the rice in a plastic ziploc bag and freeze it with the casserole. Then I will heat it separately.
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