Spanish Rice With Ham
"This is a quick side dish to serve with Mexican entrees. We like spicy, so I usually add some spices to kick it up a notch, but it's good as is. It also freezes well."
photo by Caroline Cooks
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1⁄2 cup green pepper, chopped
- 2 cups ham, cubed
- 1 (15 ounce) can Mexican-style stewed tomatoes
- 1 cup tomato juice
- 1⁄2 cup frozen peas
- 1⁄4 cup water
- 1 cup instant rice
directions
- In a large saucepan melt butter over medium heat. Saute green pepper until crisp tender.
- Stir in ham, undrained stewed tomatoes, tomato juice, peas, and water. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in instant rice. Cover and let stand about 5 minutes or until rice is tender.
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Reviews
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This was excellent! Cooked it for the guys who were helping with plumbing on my house and they all loved it. I added one sliced sweet onion, I served it with slices of french bread. I agree with Kittencal that it could do with a couple cloves of garlic. I will do this again. -
I did add onions as suggested by a reviewer and left out the green peas. Very tasty! Made for ZWT3.
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Needed onions in my opnion and a little more spice but still very good. We had the rice with breakfast when it was fresh then froze the last of it in 5 single serve portions. I used my Seal-a-Meal and they kept well. I microwaved them 2 1/2 minutes at 30 second intervals and will have these with the girls for lunch this afternoon. Made your recipe as a Spain Freezer Pleaser Challenge for ZWT3. TFS, I'll do these again. -
I used this as my full dinner with brown rice cooked from scratch. I used V8 and 1/2 of a fresh tomato for the canned tomato (I made 2 servings). As did Kit I added onion and some garlic, also a good amount of Southwest seasoning. The ham makes it very tasty and this is a grand quick meal in a bowl. Thanks Lazyme. -
This was good, although I made some changes to this recipe, I felt it needed some onions and garlic sauteed with the green peppers, also I added in 2 jalapeno peppers, and about 1 tablespoons dried chili flakes (we like extreme heat!) all in all we enjoyed this! thanks for sharing hon!...Kitten:)
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
lazyme
Grapeview, Washington
<p>Hi and thanks for visiting my AM page. My name is Vicki and I love to cook. I've always been an avid collector of recipes and cookbooks - in fact I have over 1200 cookbooks on my computer alone.</p>
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