Suggestions for this recipe please

So last week I tried out a recipe out of Men’s Health which looked pretty good. It’s just chicken and brown rice cooked in beer, sounded pretty good on paper but just didn’t quite work for my wife and I.

So I turn to the internet to give me some suggestions on how to fix this recipe. I should probably point out that the original recipe called for wheat beer which I didn’t have so used an APA instead, so that could have contributed to the failure.

• 250g chicken breast
• 2 cups of cooked brown rice
• 1 cup of chopped vegetables
• 1 cup of chicken stock
• 1 bottle of beer

Season chicken then brown on all sides in a pan. Remove chicken and stir fry vegetables for one minute. Add in cooked rice, chicken and stock then heat until the liquid boils. Add the beer then cover and bake in the oven at 150 for 10 minutes.

So what could I replace the beer with? My initial thought was just water to keep the amount of liquid the same but perhaps I could use something to enhance the flavour. Ideas?

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