Mexican Rice

This Mexican-style rice dish is healthy and fast. It’s made with a few jars of your home canning. You can tweak it for what you have available on your pantry shelves.

We made it in a pressure cooker (such as an Instant Pot) for speed. If you prefer to cook rice in a regular pot you will want to adjust the cooking time, and probably the amount of cooking liquid as well.

To be clear: this is a cooking with canning recipe, not a recipe for canning.

This recipe uses:

Mexican Tomato Sauce

Home-canned mushrooms

Home-canned peppers

The recipe

Yield: 10 x 1 cup (200 g / 7 oz) servings

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Mexican Rice

This recipe uses your home canning to bring together a zero-work tasty rice dish with a Mexican flair.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Mexican

Keyword Rice

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Servings 10 cup (200 g / 7 oz) servings

Calories 151kcal

Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

• 400 g brown rice (dry uncooked. 2 cups / 14 oz)
• 1 half-litre jar Mexican tomato sauce (1 pint)
• 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon powder
• 1 half-litre jar home-canned mushrooms (1 pint)
• 1 half-litre jar home-canned bell peppers (1 pint)
• ½ onion (chopped)

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

• Put rice in pot.
• [Optional: Add a tablespoon or two of oil, sauté the rice a bit first.]
• Add jar of Mexican sauce in pot.
• Stir in chicken bouillon powder.
• Drain mushrooms and bell peppers, saving water.
• Add drained mushrooms and bell peppers to pot.
• Add 125 ml (½ cup / 4 oz) of the reserved water to pot. (If not using the home canned mushrooms or peppers, then just add 125 ml (½ cup / 4 oz) of tap water.)
• Stir.
• Add any other seasonings desired such as cumin, fresh cilantro, oregano, dried celery, garlic powder, etc.
• Put lid on pressure cooker.
• Cook on high for 18 minutes.
• Stir.
• Serve hot.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 151kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 220mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 4g

Recipe notes

• Instead of fresh onion, you could use a few tablespoons of dried. Or a teaspoon or two of onion powder.
• WHITE RICE INSTEAD OF BROWN. Use same amount of rice. Increase added water by another 125 ml (½ cup / 4 oz) . Pressure cook on high for 4 minutes.

Nutrition

Serving size: 1 cup (200 g / 7 oz)

Per serving:

• 151 calories, 220 mg sodium
• Weight Watchers PointsPlus®: 4 points; SmartPoints®: 5 points.

* Nutrition info provided by MyFitnessPal

* PointsPlus™ and SmartPoints™ calculated by healthycanning.com. Not endorsed by Weight Watchers® International, Inc, which is the owner of the PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® registered trademarks.