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Recipe #6 - Jenn's Mexican Rice

(Not my mom's recipe...hers is awesome...but I like to think mine's better...don't let her know)

1 cup long grain white rice
1.5 cups water
.5 bell pepper
.5 white onion
.5 13.5 ounce can of diced tomatoes
1 tablespoon of tomato paste
2 tablespoons cooking oil
Jenn's Mexican Spice Mix to taste

Recipe #6a - Jenn's Mexican Spice Mix
5 parts salt
3 parts pepper
2 parts garlic powder
2 parts onion powder
1 part cumin

1) Add the cooking oil, rice and Mexican Spice Mix into a large boiling pot.
2) Set pot on high, and stir constantly as to not burn the rice.
3) just as the rice begins to turn brown, add the water and immediately cover
4) Once the water comes to boiling, set the heat to medium.
5) Add in the bell pepper, onion, tomato and tomato paste, mixing well until the rice becomes a uniform pinkish red color.
6) Recover and Wait five minutes.
7) Set the heat to low. Wait five minutes.

Some time around here, you may want to taste the rice and see if more seasoning is necessary. You'll want to do this BEFORE you finish cooking, so don't worry that the rice might still be hard. Check the taste.

8) Remove the pot from the heat, and wait five more minutes.
9) Uncover the rice, and fluff the rice using a rice paddle or spoon.

5 Servings
70 Calories
0.15g Fat
14.30g Carbs
1.96g Protien

Huh...I don't have any pictures of my Mexican rice....