Pepper rice

This is a recipe for a quick, easy rice side dish that makes good use of your hand-canned goods including the liquid in the jar to provide a flavourful cooking water that the rice absorbs.

The added veg also help to bulk out the dish, reducing the calories in it per serving.

Note: This is a “how to use your home canning” recipe.

This recipe uses: Home canned peppers and home canned mushrooms.

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• 1 Pepper rice
  • 1.1 Ingredients
  • 1.2 Instructions
  • 1.3 Notes
  • 1.4 Nutrition
• 2 Nutrition

Pepper rice

Yield: Makes about 10 x 1 cup (120 g) servings of rice

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword Peppers, Rice

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes minutes

Total Time 50 minutes minutes

Servings 10 Cups

Calories 99kcal

Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

• 1 half-litre jar home canned bell peppers (US pint)
• 1 quarter-litre jar home canned mushrooms (½ US pint)
• 1 tablespoon cumin (ground)
• 200 g rice (brown or white, uncooked. 7 oz / 1 cup)

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

• RICE STEAMER: Empty the peppers and the mushrooms including water into steamer bowl. Mix in cumin, then mix in rice. Add boiling water from kettle as / if needed to top up rice by 3 cm (1 inch). Cover, and let steam for about 45 minutes. (OR follow directions for your own rice steamer.)
• STOVE TOP POT: Empty the peppers and the mushrooms including water into pot. Mix in cumin. Bring to a boil, then stir in rice. Add boiling water from kettle as / if needed to top up rice by 3 cm (1 inch). Reduce to a low simmer, cover and cook for 15 minutes.

Notes

Any type of rice is fine, short grain or long grain, white or brown. Probably not the right kind of recipe, though, for risotto or pudding rice.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 99kcal | Carbohydrates: 20.5g | Protein: 3.4g | Fat: 0.5g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 6mg | Fiber: 1.7g | Sugar: 2.7g

Nutrition

Serving size: 1 cup (125 g)

Per serving:

• 99 calories, 6 mg sodium
• Weight Watchers PointsPlus®:  3 points

* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com

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