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:
The recipe
Yield: 10 x 1 cup (200 g / 7 oz) servings
Mexican Rice
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)
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
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.
Anthony J Brown
Great ideas and recipes
Thank you