Tex-Mex Red Rice

Name: Tex-Mex Red Rice
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Tex Mex
Ingredients: 2 cups long-grain rice; 2 tbsp cooking oil; 1 cup tomato sauce; 3 cups vegetable broth; 1/4 onion, diced; 1 garlic cloves; 1/2 tsp ground cumin; 1/2 tsp salt

Marisol @marisol_elpaso

Tex-Mex Red Rice is Tex Mex home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Easy Vegan Vegetarian Gluten free Dairy free Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups long-grain rice
2 tbsp cooking oil
1 cup tomato sauce
3 cups vegetable broth
1/4 onion, diced
1 garlic cloves
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Heat the oil in a saucepan over medium heat and toast the rice, stirring, until some grains turn golden, about 4 minutes.
Add the onion and garlic and cook 2 minutes.
Stir in the tomato sauce, broth, cumin, and salt.
Bring to a simmer, cover, and cook over low heat until the rice is tender and the liquid is absorbed, about 20 minutes.
Fluff with a fork and serve.

Watch how to cook Tex-Mex Red Rice

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Tex Mex dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Tex-Mex Red Rice, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Bean and Cheese Burrito
  
  20 min
The protein alongside
- Black Beans with Cumin and Lime
  
  15 min
The sharp little thing
- Guacamole Casero
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Tex-Mex Red Rice carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Tex-Mex Red Rice
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 400 kcal
Protein: 7 g
Carbs: 78 g
Fat: 7 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 480 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Tex-Mex Red Rice takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.