Rice combined with cheese and veggies create this colorful and tasty side dish.

Cheesy Confetti Rice

butter

rice

onion

water

(4 ounce) can diced green chiles, drained

chicken bouillon

Monterey Jack cheese

olives

½ (4 ounce) jar diced pimento peppers, drained

parsley

In a 2 quart saucepan over medium heat melt butter and stir in rice and onion.  Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until rice turns golden brown, about 8 to 10 minutes.


Slowly add water, green chiles and chicken bouillon.  Bring mixture to a boil, reduce heat and cover.  Simmer until rice is tender, about 25 to 30 minutes.  Stir in cheese, olives, pimientos and parsley.


This is great rice! Yummy! I omitted the olives and cheese (I guess you could sprinkle some cheese over your serving to melt but I just didn't think it needed it) and used a whole jar of diced pimentos. Very colorful and very tasty! This will accompany many maindishes in the future! Thanks Michele!

I just made this chessy rice, i browned the rice w/ onion, gpepper,and garlic.i ommitted the olives and palmentto. A slice of american cheese&amp; a handfull of italian cheese made this dish very good. i will make this more often.

This was very good.  I did add more green chili peppers because I love them.  I also added garlic powder.

We really enjoyed this...very creamy &amp; tasty.

Oh MY! This was delicious, yummy, tasty, and really looks good too. Very colorful, makes a great presentation both in taste and sight! I will make this again!  I followed the recipe entirely, but didn't have pimentoes, so used roasted jarred red peppers.  No monterey either, just some four cheese shredded mix.  Super super super!

Made this rice to go with grilled pork steaks for a dinner with extended family.  Everyone loved it and went back for seconds.  Definitely added this one to make again and again.

We liked this pretty much - I didn't actually like it as much as I thought I would, given the ingredients.  Maybe it didn't have enough flavor for my taste.  I did leave out the olives, because we don't like them, so maybe they add the missing flavor.  This recipe also made a ton!  Way more than 6 servings for us, so we got tired of eating it over and over.  I would still make it again, though, in a smaller quantity.

Really liked this, was looking for something different to serve along side my flounder.I browned the rice in butter then put in a bowl with the water and chicken bouillon, microwaved on high for 20 min.In same pan brown onions, garlic, half a green bell pepper. Stir the rest of ingredients into the bowl of rice. This was really good and different. 
Thanks

Scaled the recipe to make half &amp; made it as written. It was very good.

Just the side I was looking for to go with my leftover steak...I did cut the recipe in half for all ingredients EXCEPT the can of green chiles.  I also didn't have any pimiento or roasted red pepper, so just sauteed some chopped red bell pepper with the onions and rice.  Cheddar Jack cheese gave the rice some extra color and snipped fresh chives added to the confetti look.  A keeper in my book.  

used brown rice instead of white; this extended the cooking time to about 45 minutes. Left out the green chilies, pimentos &amp; parsley; used cheddar cheese. This will be a keeper--I've never browned rice in butter before cooking it before, and it was superbly creamy.

This has been in my box for 10 years, wish I had made it sooner, that would have been an extra 10 years of enjoyment.  This was easy to make and very enjoyable.  I left out the pimento and scooped out my serving before adding the olives.  (I'm not a fan)  Compliments from all!  The green chilies add such a nice flavor, I wouldn't have guessed they were in there if I hadn't made it.

This was really good but only make enough for one meal or maybe mix with something else for leftovers.  The taste and texture really didn't carry over very well to the second day.

Delicious!  Didn't have pimentos, chiles, or olives.  So i just put in broccoli cut up in bitty pieces,  and a little spinach.  I also browned the rice and onion with some garlic.  It came out better than i expected, thanks!

The whole family loves this dish.  There are very few recipes that can accomplish this task.  I have to try to please 6 people with very different  tastes.  Amazing!

8.22.22  I had all ingredients on hand and used all of them, followed the recipe to the letter.  The only addition I made was after tasting, gave it a pretty healthy shot of hot sauce (personal taste).  This is very cheesy, very creamy, and packed with flavor.  It was a good side dish with Chicken Piquant (on this site), and I’ll make again.

My family really enjoyed this. I did not use as much butter as the recipe called for and did not have the olives, pimento peppers, or parsley on hand and it was still delicious. It was great served alongside a tortilla casserole.

GREAT RECIPE!!!  I changed a couple things, only due to personal preference.  I omitted the pimentos and black olives (I LOVE black olives, but my boyfriend, not so much.)  I added sweet corn.  DELICIOUS!!  Will definitely be making this a lot!

Very good -- 4 and 1/2 stars.  I thought the black olives would be kind of weird, so I cut back on them.  However, you should not. It was great, and I wished I had put in the amount of olives called for.

cheesy confetti rice

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Total: 50 minutes

Servings: 6

Author : Michele O'Sullivan

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