Mexican Rice is always a must-have when you serve Mexican food, so give one of these Three Easy Mexican Rice recipes a try for your Taco Tuesday menu tomorrow!
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Three Easy Recipes for Mexican Rice includes three different versions of Mexican rice that can easily be put together for your next Mexican food adventure! Everyone knows that Mexican rice is the perfect accompaniment for enchiladas, tacos, or burritos and we found three easy recipes for Mexican rice that you will love.
Green rice, Spanish rice, and Cilantro lime rice all begin with uncooked rice. Then with a few added ingredients, and the help of your trusty slow cooker or Instant Pot, each of these Mexican rice recipes can create the perfect rice for Mexican night at home.
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Pressure Cooker Mexican Green Rice from Pressure Cooking Today is made with avocado, cilantro, and green salsa for light and fluffy rice with a wonderful flavor that is a great alternative to traditional Spanish rice.
If you haven’t tried making rice in the slow cooker yet, what are you waiting for? Start this Slow Cooker Spanish Rice from Taste and Tell a few hours before dinner, and your side dish is taken care of. And the recipe couldn’t be easier; just chop the onion and green pepper, put ingredients in the slow cooker, and let it cook.
Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice from Two Peas and Their Pod cooks perfectly in the Instant Pot and takes less than 30 minutes from start to finish. Maria says, “If you like Chipotle’s rice, you will LOVE this easy recipe you can make at home. The Instant Pot cooks the rice in a jiffy and it turns out perfect every single time.”
More Easy Ideas for Side Dishes in the Slow Cooker or Instant Pot:
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I am looking to make a spanish rice for a taco themed goodie day at work. I'd probably want to double this recipe. How much more do you think it would need to cook? I will only have 3 hours at work to let it cook before serving, should I cook it the night before and reheat?
Shayna I would click through and ask the blogger who posted the recipe. That would be the best information.
Ross, this site features "from-scratch" slow cooker recipes from sites all around the web. There is a link to click to the original site, where you can get the complete recipe.
It would have been helpful if there had been amounts and cooking time also posted.
Thanks Lydia. I'll never give up my beloved rice cooker for plain rice, but I love the slow cooker for flavored rice dishes!
Until I started reading this blog, I never knew you could cook rice in the slow cooker. Now I love it!