Nigerian One-pot Chicken Dinner

Ingredients

 * 1 large Chicken—cut in quarters or
 * 2 cups water
 * 1 Onion—thinly sliced
 * 1 Stalk celery—cut into 1"
 * 1 teaspoon Salt
 * 1/8 teaspoon Crushed dried red pepper
 * 2 Tomatoes
 * 1 Green pepper—sliced
 * 1 tablespoon Lemon juice
 * 1 tablespoon Tomato paste
 * 1/2 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, celer, salt and crushed pepper.
 * 2) Cover and cook over miderately 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 1/2 min.
 * 4) Spoon tomaotes out of the water and remove skin.
 * 5) Cut into eighths. 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 cassaroles, 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 cassarole 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 cassarole.
 * 13) Then I will heat it separately.