Recipe Spanish Rice With Brown Rice
Saute onion and garlic in oil until onions cook through.
Recipe spanish rice with brown rice. Cover reduce heat to medium low and simmer until rice is cooked and liquid is absorbed about 1 hour. Browning the rice is very important for flavor. Cook rice and onion until rice is brown and onion is translucent while stirring constantly 3 5 minutes.
Directions for homemade spanish rice. Cook rice according to package directions or to yield 2 1 2 c 350g cooked rice add 3 4 c 152g of long grain brown rice to a sauce pot with 1 1 2 c 2 tbs 432g vegetable broth or water. Stir to combine flavors.
I use a teflon coated frying pan with a lid but any heavy pan with a tight fitting lid will work. Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Measure salt garlic powder cumin and black pepper into a small bowl or cup.
3 cups brown rice cooked 1 2 cup chicken broth. This spanish rice using 100 whole grain brown rice is a lighter alternative to other rice recipes. Added the rice to brown a little before adding the liquid.
Let rest for ten minutes covered. Gently stir in rice until coated in mixture. Bring chicken broth tomatoes and salt to a boil in a medium saucepan.
Mix in chicken broth and cover skillet. I used medium salsa 1 2 cup omitted the tomatoes because i used onion and red pepper and at the recommendation of some added garlic powder and chili powder 2 shakes of each. Susbstituted some of the water with leftover chicken broth 1 4 cup to use it up.