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Mexican Rice

Filed Under: Cooking with canning

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.

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  • 1 This recipe uses:
  • 2 The recipe
  • 3 Mexican Rice
    • 3.1 Ingredients
    • 3.2 Instructions
    • 3.3 Nutrition
  • 4 Recipe notes
  • 5 Nutrition

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.

Filed Under: Cooking with canning

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  1. Anthony J Brown

    March 09, 2023 at 3:10 am

    5 stars
    Great ideas and recipes
    Thank you

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