Easy Mexican Rice w/ Bacon
Easy Mexican Rice w/ Bacon

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, easy mexican rice w/ bacon. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Take Taco Tuesday to the next level with this fluffy, homemade Mexican rice. Just a teaspoon of onion salt and ground cumin with tomato sauce bring this traditional Latin dish to. This easy Mexican rice recipe turns your basic white rice into a vibrant and flavorful side dish.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy mexican rice w/ bacon using 6 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Mexican Rice w/ Bacon:
  1. Make ready 1/2 lb bacon
  2. Take 1 medium yellow onion- diced
  3. Make ready 1 cup medium to long grain white rice
  4. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp chili power
  5. Prepare 1 can Rotel Tomatoes
  6. Make ready 1 2/3 cup (approximately) water

I use black beans and sometimes just the rice w/ no beans. I put everything (spices tomato sauce) in from the get go as some reviewers suggested. This easy Mexican rice is baked in the oven and tastes even better than the rice from your favorite Mexican restaurant! I'm Amanda. a wife, mother of two rambunctious kiddos, photography nerd, and bacon lover!

Steps to make Easy Mexican Rice w/ Bacon:
  1. Dice the bacon & fry in skillet until crispy
  2. Remove cooked bacon but leave the bacon grease. You may need to remove some of the bacon grease, you only want enough to coat the rice & onion
  3. Add diced onion and rice to bacon grease
  4. On medium heat brown the rice to a golden brown. Stirring to brown as evenly as possible
  5. Add chili powder, stir in and let cook a few minutes, the longer you let it heat the more depth to the flavor.
  6. Add Rotel Tomatoes - undrained
  7. Add water - about 1 2/3 cup since the Rotel has about 1/3 cup liquid
  8. Bring to a boil, cover and lower heat to simmer until liquid is absorbed and rice is done. About 20 minutes
  9. Sprinkle crispy bacon on top and serve
  10. Enjoy!

I believe that gourmet meals should be something we. This great Mexican rice is the right side dish you need to complete your Mexican dinner. Just follow these easy step by step photo instructions. This easy recipe for Mexican rice is so full of flavor and better than any we've had from a Tex-Mex restaurant. Make some to go with your chicken enchiladas Rice and tomato paste then get stirred in along with the vegetables until the rice grains become slightly toasty and the tomato paste gets a little.

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