What's the difference between Spanish and Mexican rice?

Question

What's the difference between Spanish and Mexican rice?

Answer 1

no difference! both are planted and harvested and cooked and eaten!

Answer 2

Ahhh, one of my  pet peeves! everyone around here thinks spanish and mexican are synonymous...and they're NOT!!!

spanish rice is yellow, made so by saffron, usually boiled with chicken broth. mexican rice is red/orange and boiled with tomatoes.

great question!

Answer 3

I just answered this same question last week. Mexican rice is Mexican rice. After almost two hundred years of independence from Spain it justly deserves to be called Mexican. Mexican rice is also more varied than Spanish rice. You can have red, white, green, yellow, saffron, etc. The preparation for both is similar, but Mexican can be prepared in many more different ways.

Answer 4

The truth is that both are actually red/orange because Spanish rice is also made with tomato sauce or paste.  The Mexican version has cumin, bell pepper, onions, and chicken stock whereas the Spanish version does not add cumin but insteads has saffron.  Saffron turns the rice a red/orange color.

For yellow rice, use turmeric.

For green rice, use dill weed.

For red rice, tomatoes and or tomato sauce.

Answer 5

mexicans are spanish, and there are different rices made by all the different ethinicities of the culture, such as peruvian colombian, el salvadorian, puerto rican,cuban, and spain, to just name a few.

Answer 6

one of them is sweeter i think lol