Your best homemade recipe for Spanish rice...?

Question

Please no links to recipe sites, I want your mothers recipe for rice. Usually it's made by memory. Thanks

Answer 1

2 cups instant rice

2 cups water or chicken broth

2 cups salsa

2 T. fresh chopped cilantro

Put rice and water (broth) in microwave bowl, cover with plastic wrap.

Microwave on high for 5 minutes, open door and then close it.  Microwave it for another 8 minutes or until all liquid is gone.  If rice is still moist, microwave for 2 more minutes.  Rice needs to be dry.

Allow the rice stand for a couple of minutes.

Fold salsa and cilantro in rice and keep warm for serving.

Note:  I don't like tomatoes and large chunks, so what I do is put the salsa into a blender to make the salsa lumps smaller.

Answer 2

I cup rice un cooked

2 Cans tomato sauce

1/2 onion

1/2 tea Sp garlic salt

1/2 tea spoon pepper

1tea Sp oil

Brown the rice in a skillet with a tea spoon of oil until almost brown, add onion and garlic salt and pepper let cook a few more minutes then add your tomatos sauce and then add water to each of your empty can of tomatoe pour in and taste maybe need more garlic or pepper. simmer until all liquid is gone and your done great rice.

add tomatoes

Answer 3

which one do you want?

there are many spanish rice.

Answer 4

Sorry, but mother's recipes are consider sacred, secret and unethical to ask! Even if you manage to get one, it would never be the same because they have the magic touch in cooking and preparing it!

Answer 5

Rice-A-Roni, baby!  As close to homemade as you can get!

Answer 6

2 tablespoons olive oil for frying

1 onion (diced)

1 green pepper (diced)

4 cloves of garlic (minced)

1 can of Spam ham (diced, must be this brand for better taste)

4 cups of goya rice (medium grain) or fancy grade rice

1 can of red kidney beans (water removed)

1 can of whole kernel corn (keep water) or frozen corn

1 packet of Sazon Goya (coriander & annatto)

half a cup of tomato sauce

water (measured by eye)

In a large frying pan saute olive oil, onions, peppers, spam ham and garlic until onions  and spam have slight brown coloring. Remove cooked mixture into bowl. Rinse rice a little and then pour into frying pan with heat on. Flatten down rice, this is important because I usually judge how much water to put in by eye. Before you place the water in add red kidney beans, can corn with the water still in it, tomato sauce, and tear open Sazon packet and pour in.  When you pour the water in, it must be about 1/2 inch or a little more above the rice which is flattened down into the pot. Not too much water or else the rice will be too soft.  Add bowl of cooked mixture into frying pan with the rice mixture. Mix. Cover and bring to boil, then bring down heat as low as you can.  Stir about 2 or 3 times while it is cooking, so rice cooks thoroughly. Rice is done when you check to see if it is cooked through. You can add pepper if you want, but I don't think you need salt because the spam adds some of it's own to the recipe.  Great recipe try it. Very hearty meal that can be eaten alone.

Answer 7

My grandmothers recipe went something like this:

Ingredients:

1 cup white long-grain rice

2 cups chicken broth or 2 cups water + 1 cube chicken boull.

(the chicken boullion is the most important)

1 teaspoon tomato paste

2 small cloves fresh garlic, minced

1 small yellow onion, minced

1/2 teaspoon cumin

1/2 teaspoon paprika or mild chili powder

3 tablespoons canola oil or 2 TB butter

Black pepper

Directions:

Heat oil in large skillet pan until medium heat, add onion and rice. Stir until rice is white color and begins to get light golden. Add chicken broth or water and boullion all at once and stir, add spoon of tomato paste, minced garlic, black pepper, cumin and paprika. Let simmer under covered lid for about 15-20 minutes (try not to stir!), cook it to desired tenderness. My grandma used to top her rice with cooked green peas and sliced hard boiled egg...some people top it with shredded jack or cheddar cheese, which is also delicious! I just love to eat it.

Answer 8

Here is one everyone loves loves loves... not too sure on the amounts cause i never measure but here it goes.............

this is for one cup of rice uncooked

1 large ripe tomato chopped

1/2 small white onion chopped

garlic powder

salt

pepper

chicken bullion cubes

water

rice

In a small frying pan add onion and tomatos and let them start to soften and cook just a bit. Then I add the salt, pepper and garlic powder to taste, like I said I never measure but about what you would use to spice up your chicken or something like that. About half a teaspoon each. Let this simmer for about a minute or so. Add 1/4 a cup of water and one whole bullion cube. Mix everything together making sure the bullion is completely disolved. Now in a medium sauce pan add the rice and lightly brown over high heat, watch carefully. Now you can add the tomato mixture right to the rice for a chunkier rice or you can first puree the mixture and then add it to the rice. add about a half a cup or water to that and cover. Simmer over low heat till done.

Answer 9

I like to cook some bacon nice and crispy, then I pour out most of the oil. I use the oil to brown the rice maybe add a little garlic.

Pour your liquid on the rice and cover it and let it simmer. Uncover as little as possible.

When it is finished you crumble the bacon on top and add some chopped green onions on top.

For the the liquid I use one jalapeño, 2 tomatoes (boiled for a while first if possible). For additional liquid either use chicken broth or water with knorr. Put it all in the blender and puree. You should have approximately 3 cups of liquid for every cup of rice.

Answer 10

This is certainly no an old family recipe, but it is the quickest, easiest, and tastiest way I have found to make Spanish rice.

Bring to boil 1 cup water seasoned with 1 cube cilantro powder, 1 tbsp tomato bouillon,1 teaspoon crushed garlic, salt and pepper. Add 1 cup Minute Rice to the water, stir, cover, and remove from heat.  Let stand 5 minutes, then stir in 1 8oz can medium (or hot, if you like it) Mexican salsa.  Serve over crushed thin white corn tortilla chips.  You can add 1/4 cup canned or frozen whole kernel corn to the water before it starts to boil, if you like corn in your rice.

Answer 11

You wanted a recipe from a mom hears mine. Make 4 cups instant rice. Set aside (or use leftover rice). Take 2 tbsp butter or olive oil, put in skillet add 1 small onion diced and saute till almost soft. Brown about 1/2 # ground beef add to onion mix. Salt and pepper to taste. Add 1 small can tomatoes with jalapenos. Add garlic salt. Add rice and 1/2 cup water. Magic ingredient-cayenne pepper 1/8 to 1/4 tsp or a pinch. Simmer about 3 to 5 minutes. I just made it for you and I measured it out, (its approximate) If you like green peppers, dice them and add to onion while they are sauteing. Spanish rice is like using what you have in the cabinet, a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Oh and this was so good,Have fun making it.

Answer 12

Many suggestions, give this one a try.

You need

onion

garlic

cilantro

cumin

tomato's

1/2 chicken bouillon cube

jalapenos

potato if desired

and of course rice

I always find it best to dice all ingredients before you begin cooking. In a skillet add onions, jalapenos, and potato's to hot oil. Let them cook for a few min. and add your rice. Please use the oil sparingly. Let the rice cook until it is slightly browned. Add water to your rice and stir. Allow the rice to cook for about 5 min. Add your diced tomato's, garlic, cumin, bouillon cube, and pepper to the rice. Allow the rice to cook until tender, add water as needed. Garnish with cilantro and serve with salsa and flour tortillas, ENJOY!

Answer 13

brown rice add water and tomato sauce with some beef or chiken cumin and let simmer. depending on what taste you like.

Answer 14

In a 12inch pan that has a lid, pour about 2-3 tablespoons of oil, set stove to med-hi, get half if a yellow onion and chop it into chunks add to oil, satee the onion till it starts to change a little color, while doing that heat 2cups of water to boiling in a separate pot, add 1 and 1/2 cups of rice to pan and sautee till rice turns golden then add one can of tomato sauce about 4 oz or so to the rice an add the water, add Sazon  Goya seasoning the pan and mix it all together, salt and pepper to taste and I add alittle garlic powder to taste as well, bring to a boil and then cover and drop to low to aslow simmer and continue to cook for about 20-25 minutes, if you don't know what sazon goya is here is a link to see it http://www.goya.com/english/products/pro...