Recipe of Super Quick Homemade Green Mexican Rice

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, green mexican rice. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Green Mexican Rice is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Green Mexican Rice is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook green mexican rice using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Green Mexican Rice:

1. Get 250 ml Chicken stock
2. Make ready 125 ml Water
3. Take 250 ml Uncooked rice (long grain rice such as indica rice)
4. Take 1/4 small ★Onion
5. Prepare 1 clove ★Garlic (finely chopped)
6. Prepare 6 to 8 stalks worth ★Fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves
7. Get 3 thin stalks ★ Green onion (optional)
8. Make ready 1/2 ★ Jalapeno pepper (leave out if you don't like spicy food)
9. Prepare 1/3 tsp Salt
10. Prepare 1 dash Pepper
11. Take 2 tsp Olive oil
12. Get 1 Lemon wedges

Instructions to make Green Mexican Rice:

1. Wash the rice, soak in water for about 20 minutes, and drain into a sieve.
2. Finely chop all the ★ vegetables.Take the seeds out of the jalapeno pepper, and chop it finely.
3. Heat up the olive oil in a thick-bottomed pan. Sauté the vegetables from Step 2 until softened. Add the rice, and sauté until it turns a bit translucent.
4. Add the chicken stock and water to the pan. Turn the heat up to high and bring to a boil while stirring with a wooden spatula.
5. Cover the pan with a lid, turn the heat down to low and cook for 15 minutes. Turn the heat off and leave to steam for 10 minutes.
6. Mix the rice up well. Arrange on serving plates alongside the main dish. (Serve with lemon wedges on the side if you like.)
7. ■ Variation no. 1: Mexican-Style Sautéed Chicken Thighs (see. This goes so well with this green rice. I highly recommend it. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/158434-mexican-style-sauteed-chicken-thighs
8. ■ For your reference: If you have a lot of coriander left over, immerse the stem ends in a bowl filled with water and cut them with scissors under water. Immediately put the coriander in a cup of water.
9. ■ (continued) Cover the coriander with a plastic bag and store in the refrigerator; and this way it will stay fresh for about a week. (Be sure the leaves don't get wet.)

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