Flavorful and delicious. No one will guess this authentic tasting rice was made from instant rice.

Better Spanish Rice

vegetable oil

½ onion, chopped

instant rice

(14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes

cilantro

chicken broth

Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high heat, and cook and stir the chopped onion until browned, about 8 minutes.


Stir in the rice, tomatoes, cilantro, and chicken broth, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer until the rice is cooked and most of the liquid is absorbed, about 10 minutes.


we eat alot of Mexican dishes and this goes perfectly with them. I use Rotel tomatoes. Its easy and delicious!

Fast and easy.  I added 1/4 jalapino to give it just a bit of heat. I will next time stir in the cilantro just before serving.

Very good and easy recipe. The only changes I made were used beef broth cause that is all I had and used Rotel instead of diced tomatoes. YUM!

I used Rotel instead of plain diced tomatoes - the green chiles give it a little extra kick. I also added a good shake of garlic powder and cumin. Perfect!

Not bad.  As others recommended I used diced tomatoes w/ green chiles, I added a spoonful of tomato paste to boost the tomato flavor, vegetable broth (to make it vegetarian), a dash of cumin and a little chili powder.  It was more flavorful this way and I would probably make this again for a quick throw together side dish.  Made it as an accompaniment to the Delicious Black Bean Burrito recipe from this site, which I highly recommend.

was really good and easy to make... the kids even helped... thanks

Very good recipe. The only thing I did different was instead of the tomatoes I used a can of ROTEL Chili Fixin's for a little extra zing.

I like how quick this was but I think it needs some chili powder. Good but not the best

Thank you mjhutch for this recipe. I tried other rice recipes on this site but since I'm a cooking know-nothing I screwed 2 of them up. This one though was by far the easiest. Following the super-easy instructions my rice came out perfect! (I used the instant white rice like the recipe asked for. I also added the cilantro at the very end like someone else suggested.) Next time I made this I altered the recipe as follows: added 1 small can of diced jalapenos and some fresh cut corn kernels to the rice- tomatoes-broth mix. Then about 1/2 way through the simmering I added 1 cut zucchini. (I added the zucchini late to keep their color and crunchy texture.) This tasted so good and made it so hearty almost a meal in itself. Being Mexican (that's why I added the japalenos) I know Spanish Rice and this is among the best I've had! Now everyone is asking me about the recipe and even my mom can't believe I made a spanish rice better than hers! Rename it "Best Spanish Rice!"

better spanish rice

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total: 20 minutes

Servings: 4

Author : mjhutch

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