About:

A dish made up of rice, tomatoes, garlic, cumin, onion, capsicum and other ingredients; Spiced with chilli powder. Sautéing the rice in a skillet until it is golden brown gives the traditional touch. It is similar to Spanish Rice with some variations.

Brown rice is used to make fibre rich diet food.

Serves: 2
Cooking time: 35-40mins (including cooking time of rice)
Preparation time: 15mins

Ingredients:

• Brown rice-1cup
• Vegetable broth/ water-2cups
• Chopped onion-1large
• Chopped capsicum-1num
• Chopped tomatoes-1cup
• Mixed vegtables-1cup (peas, carrot, corn, beans)
• Minced garlic-1tbsp
• Paprika/chilli powder-1tsp
• oil-2tsp
• cumin seeds-1tsp
• salt- as per taste

Garnishing:

• Coriander/green onions – a handful

Method:

• Soak brown rice at least for an hour before cooking, drain and set aside
• In a large saucepan bring broth/ water to boil add drained rice, salt and cook on a medium high flame for 15-18mins, stirring in-between (be careful not to burn rice)
• Once cooked spread on a plate and let it cool slightly
• Heat oil in pan add cumin seeds, garlic, onion saute for 2minutes.
• Add mixed vegetables, capsicum fry for a minute
• Add chilli powder, tomatoes and saute until the vegetables are tender and raw flavour of chilli powder leaves.
• Add cooked rice, salt mix well.
• Garnish with spring onion greens/coriander

Serve hot

Note:

• If you like more spicy you can add red chilli paste as well.
• You can enjoy this recipe by using white rice/ any rice of your choice
• Traditionally Mexican rice is cooked in vegetable broth but you can use water as well