Deliciously Chunky Spanish Rice

"This is my family's favorite recipe for Spanish rice. You can add more or less red pepper, depending on how spicy you like it."
 
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Ready In:
55mins
Ingredients:
15
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Melt margarine in a medium saucepan. Add onions, bell pepper, carrots, celery, garlic and rice. Cook and stir over medium heat until rice is lightly brown and vegetables are tender.
  • Add stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, water, salt, pepper, chili powder, cumin, and red pepper. Mix well.
  • Bring to a boil. Cover saucepan, lower heat and simmer for 30 minutes or until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed; stirring occasionally.

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Reviews

  1. Terrific rice that my whole family enjoyd. I didn't have Mexican Style canned tomatoes, so just used regular but we didn't feel that we were missing out on anything. This rice was falvourful and delicious, thanks! Made for ZWT 8 :)
     
  2. Fantastic! I loved all the vegetables in it, and the addition of cumin. Thank you.
     
  3. This was so good!! I made half the recipe, although I used a whole can of Mexican stewed tomatoes and no tomato sauce to compensate for cutting down the amounts. Served with some diced avocado and cilantro, plus some hot sauce for my DH!
     
  4. Took a long time to boil down and by then the rice was mushy.
     
  5. This was soooo good! The only things I changed was to add a small can of green chiles (medium), upped the cumin to a whole teaspoon because I love cumin and used long grain brown rice instead of white but otherwise I did everything exactly as written and it was delicious!!! I will be making this often!
     
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Tweaks

  1. I used butter in place of the margarine and reduced it by half. In place of the white rice, I used basmati brown rice and extended the cooking time. The brown rice adds a nice nutty texture and extra fiber. This is very good. Thanks for sharing.
     

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