Arroz Roja Mexican Red Rice
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"The view.they use alot of salt if you don't don't add as much you can season later"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (271.9 g)
- Calories 307.3
- Total Fat - 5.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.7 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 1821.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 58.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.4 g
- Sugars - 3.7 g
- Protein - 5.9 g
- Calcium - 32.2 mg
- Iron - 1.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 6 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step 1
Place chicken broth and 1 tablespoon salt in a small saucepan and bring to simmer.
Step 2
In another skillet
Step 3
Heat oil in heavy medium-size saucepan with lid over high heat.
Step 4
When very hot, add rice and sauté, stirring frequently, about 3 minutes until opaque
Step 5
Add onion jalapeno and garlic and stir 1 minutes until rice starts to turn golden and fragrant.
Step 6
Add tomato sauce stirring 1 minute.
Step 7
Add hot broth ,water by rinsing out tomato sauce can and salt to taste and bring to boil.
Step 8
Stir rice and garlic powder.
Step 9
Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 12 minutes. Quickly uncover and add peas and carrots to rice (they will sit in the center and you will mix in later). Cover and cook 3 more minutes.
Step 10
Uncover and gently mix rice to incorporate tomato sauce (it floats to the top) and vegetables.
Step 11
Cover and cook 2 more minutes.
Step 12
Turn off heat.
Step 13
And, this is very important: let rice stand, covered with towel wrapped around it to keep heat in 20 minutes
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.