HomeSide DishesMexican Rice Recipe
Mexican Rice Recipe
Homemade Mexican Rice is so much more flavorful and healthy than packaged rice. Makes the perfect side for fajitas, tacos, or quesadillas.
- Prep10 min
- Cook25 min
- Total35 min
- Serves10
- Rating4.5
A big batch of Mexican Rice flavored with onion, garlic, and spices is the perfect side for tacos, fajitas, or enchiladas. Making your own Mexican Rice is far healthier , albeit a little more work, than making a packaged rice. But a homemade Mexican Rice won’t have any preservatives and you can keep the sodium level down. Totally worth the few extra minutes of prep time required.
You start by sauteing onion and garlic in some vegetable oil. Next you add the rice and toast it until it turns golden brown. This gives a wonderful nutty flavor to the rice. Chicken broth and tomato sauce are the liquids the rice cooks in. Peas, carrots, and some cumin and chili powder finish off the rice.
Mexican Rice is an economical and delicious way to round out any type of Mexican or Southwestern meal. It goes great with BBQ Pork and Mango Quesadillas, Grilled Skirt Steak Fajitas, and Chipotle Maple BBQ Brisket Tacos with Sweet Potato Salsa, and smotherd burritos
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Ingredients
Steps
- 1
Heat the oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat.
- 2
Saute onion and garlic for 2 minutes.
- 3
Add rice and cook, stirring frequently, until light brown, about 5 minutes.
- 4
Add carrots, tomato sauce, and chicken broth. Bring to a boil, decrease heat to medium-low and add peas, salt, pepper, cumin, and chili powder
- 5
Cover and cook until liquid is absorbed, 15 to 20 minutes.
- 6
Remove rice from heat and let sit 10 minutes. Fluff and serve.
Nutrition
- Calories325
