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

 * 1) In a large pot or dutch oven place chicken, water, onion, celery, salt and crushed pepper.
 * 2) Cover and cook over moderately high heat until comes to a boil, reduce heat to moderately low and simmer 30 minutes.
 * 3) While chicken is cooking, place tomatoes in a pan of boiling water for ½ min.
 * 4) Spoon tomatoes out of the water and remove skin. Cut into eighths.
 * 5) Add tomatoes, green pepper, lemon juice, tomato paste, and chili powder to chicken.
 * 6) Continue cooking for 10 minutes.
 * 7) Add okra to pot, cover and cook another 15 minutes.
 * 8) Stirring once or twice.
 * 9) Spoon rice into soup bowls and top with chicken mixture.
 * 10) When making casseroles, I do not put the rice in with everything else if I am going to be freezing or storing.
 * 11) 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.
 * 12) So i will put the rice in a plastic ziploc bag and freeze it with the casserole. Then I will heat it separately.