Spicy Mexican rice.
You can cook Spicy Mexican rice using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Spicy Mexican rice
- It's 500 g of basmati rice.
- It's of equal amounts of cold water (use same measuring jug/cup for both.
- You need 1 tbsp of oil.
- It's 4 of large chicken breast diced.
- You need 300 g of spicy chorizo into thick slices.
- Prepare 2 of garlic cloves crushed.
- Prepare 1 of red pepper sliced.
- It's 1 of large red onion thinly sliced.
- Prepare 1 cup of frozen garden peas.
- It's 3 of large scallions chopped for topping.
- It's 1 of birdseye chilli finely chopped.
- You need 3 tbsp of Chipotle sauce/salsa.
- You need 2 tbsp of smoked paprika.
- You need 1 tbsp of hot chilli powder.
- It's 1 tbsp of cayenne pepper.
- It's 1/2 of dried oregano.
Spicy Mexican rice instructions
- Put equal amounts of rice and cold water. Bring to a boil. Reduce temperature to a low heat cover pot and leave to cook for 10 minutes after 10 minutes remove lid and fluff up rice put lid back on pot and allow to steam as u prep ingredients. (This is how I always cook rice).
- In a large pan put oil chicken and chorizo and cook until chicken is totally cooked.
- Add chopped veg (except scallions)for 5 minutes then add spices and mix well.
- Now add cooked rice and coat it with the seasonings until no white remains on the rice.
- Finally add Chipotle sauce and give a final mix and top with chopped scallions and serve immediately.