Quick Mexican Brown Rice

This Mexican inspired side dish is perfect for those nights. It’s super quick and much healthier than using a boxed pre-seasoned rice (also MUCH lower in sodium and made with real fresh veggies as opposed to dehydrated ones).
You can make this with leftover brown rice, but if you’re live near a Trader Joe’s, I’m pretty obsessed with their frozen brown rice – it’s the perfect texture and takes just 3 minutes to heat up. Great for those days I don’t have time to make brown rice from scratch.

Quick Mexican Brown Rice
Yum this looks amazing! I do not have a go-to rice recipe so I’ll have to try this out. Thanks for sharing!

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour

Ingredients

    1–2 tablespoons oil
    1/4 onion, diced
    1 1/2 cups brown rice
    1–2 cloves garlic minced
    1/2 jalapeño, seeded and diced
    1/2 tablespoon chili powder
    1 teaspoon dried parsley
    1 teaspoon cumin
    1 teaspoon dried basil
    1/2 of a 14.5oz can fire roasted diced tomatoes
    2 1/2 cups chicken or vegetable broth
    1/2 of a 15oz can tomato sauce

Instructions

1. Heat oil in a medium to large pot on the stovetop over medium high heat.
2. Add onion, jalapeño, and brown rice.  Cook for a minute or two and then add the minced garlic.  Continue to cook, stirring until the rice has started to brown (3-5 minutes).
3. Add the seasonings: chili powder, cumin, dried basil and parsley. Cook for an additional minute.
4. Add the fire roasted diced tomatoes, tomato sauce and chicken broth.  Cover and bring to a boil.
5. Once boiling, reduce heat and simmer on low, covered, for 45 minutes an hour. Use a fork to fluff, if there is no or little liquid left at bottom remove from heat, if there’s still a little liquid or the rice is still a little crunchy you can leave the lid on the pot for 10 minutes to let the rice sit and absorb the rest of the liquid.

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