Restaurant Style Mexican Rice - Vegetarian friendly

  • Yield:6 servings
  • Time:
    32 mins, 20 secs show details

This recipe is modified from an existing one, see the notes, but I don't eat chicken or beef and I also wanted to add a little bit more flavor. Remove the heat from the reciepe for a bit more of the normal mexican rice expierence. Toasting the rice is an essential step so I highly recomend you don't skip it to save time. With the addition of the onions this, while still being fairly dry rice, will be a bit more moist that what you would get at a restaurant.

Tags: Mexican, boiled, dinner

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons
    Vegetable oil
  • 1 cup
    Long grain rice, uncooked
  • 1 teaspoon
    Fresh minced garlic
  • ⅓ cup
    Small or medium yellow onion. Diced. optional
  • 14 ounces
    Vegetable broth
  • ½ cup
    Tomato sauce
  • ½ teaspoon
    Kosher salt
  • ½ teaspoon
    Cumin
  • 1 teaspoon
    Ground cayenne pepper optional
  • 3 tablespoons
    Finely chopped fresh cilantro
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Equipment

  • 3 quart sauce pan

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Preparation

  1. 1 min

    Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat.

  2. 5 mins

    Add the rice and gently stir until rice begins to lightly brown. Stir every 30-60 seconds, doesn't need to be continuous just insure it doesn't burn.

  3. Just lightly browned

    Just lightly browned

  4. 3 mins

    optional

    Mix in the onion, continueing to stir and brown the rice until nearly golden brown

  5. It's hard to tell but the rice is nearly a nice golden brown

    It's hard to tell but the rice is nearly a nice golden brown

  6. 1 min

    Just before the rice is golden brown, add the garlic, salt, cumin and cayanne (optional). Stir the rice til it looks golden. About another minute.

  7. 1 min

    Add in the tomato sauce and stir for 30 seconds, then add the vegetable broth and stir gently until mixed. Raise the heat to medium high.

  8. Just tomato sauce

    Just tomato sauce

  9. With broth

    With broth

  10. 15 mins

    Let the mix come to a boil, should take about 3-5 minutes to get to a boil, then lower heat to medium low, stir gently to mix it and place a lid on. Let it simmer for 10 minutes, longer may be needed, just check for proper doneness after 10 minutes.

  11. Boiling

    Boiling

  12. 1 min

    Check for doneness, rice should be soft, but with a slight crispness, basically just approaching mushy without going there. You may notice a little bit of liquid at the top, that is normal and will evaporate shortly.

  13. Rice is done.

    Rice is done.

  14. 20 secs

    Stir the rice gently, with either a fork or slotted spoon just enough to break up the rice, any small amount of liquid on the top should mix and evaporate.

  15. Gently stirred rice

    Gently stirred rice

  16. 5 mins

    Let it cool for 4-5 minutes then gently mix in the cilantro. All done!

  17. With cilantro. All Done!

    With cilantro. All Done!

Notes

Modified from favfamilyrecipes.com/rest...
As they point out adding the cilantro at the end helps keep it fresh and green. Also they say 4 servings but I feel those would be very generous portions.
Don't forget different rice types have different cook times, you may need to adjust your rice cook time accordingly.

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