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Beef and Rice with Veggies Recipe
This vibrant floor Beef and Rice recipe can be a terrific addition to your floor beef recipes assortment! It’s like a pilaf, besides loaded with extra veggies and full of extra flavour.
I’m an enormous fan of beef mince – it’s economical and handy (no chopping!). And it is a nice fast approach make flip a packet of beef mince into a whole meal!
Floor beef and rice
Flavoured rice. Seasoned beef. AND veggies.
All made in ONE POT.
How useful is that?? This floor beef and rice recipe is a whole meal, with barely any chopping. Stuffed with shiny colors, loads of diet, easy and quick to make.
And it tastes SO GOOD!!!
This floor beef and rice is a fast recipe that’s filled with flavour and a whole meal in a single pot!
I’m an enormous fan of rice in all kinds. Chicken and Rice, rice soup, risotto, flavoured rices (Mexican Pink Rice is a agency favorite together with Mushroom Rice!), Arancini balls.
In reality, I’m but to fulfill a rice dish that I don’t like!!
However as common readers know, I’m a rice snob. I could also be Aussie, however I’ll at all times be a rice snob owing to my Japanese background. Dry bread and over cooked veggies I can deal with.
Mushy rice – I can’t abdomen it.
Rice. Snob. 🍚
So cooking rice in a single pot like I do with this floor beef recipe (together with all kinds of different stuff) means getting the liquid to rice ratios proper (and utilizing the appropriate rice) so you find yourself with completely cook dinner fluffy grains of rice which have soaked up all that flavour.
See? Fluffy. Not delicate and mushy!!!
Easy methods to make it
That is made like a pilaf, beginning off by sautéing onion and garlic for the flavour base. Then the meat and capsicum/bell peppers are added, then the rice and liquids and seasoning.
Give it an excellent combine, plonk the lid on and go away it to do its factor.
No peeking! It’s one of many greatest rice cooking errors – if you happen to peek, steam escapes which impacts the rice cooking course of!
We are able to by no means have sufficient floor beef recipes for fast dinners!
At present’s Beef and Rice recipe is meant to be a fast, no fuss (but tremendous tasty!) midweek meal. Therefore why it’s made in a single pot, with floor beef, a mix of contemporary and frozen veggies and a mound of child spinach. Minimal chopping, but loads of flavour, a whole meal.
No want for toppings or garnishes. I truly don’t even know what I’d dollop on prime. Perhaps bitter cream or yoghurt. I personally don’t suppose it wants it as a result of the rice is effectively seasoned, nevertheless it’s elective! – Johnsat
PS Foodie translation: Floor beef = beef mince, although I’ve seen some butchers in Australia these days are beginning to name it floor beef.
PPS This recipe will work effectively with any floor / mince meat. Pork, chicken, turkey, even lamb.
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Chili Mac – mash up of Mac and Cheese with Chilli Con Carne, so good!
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Asian Beef and Ramen Noodles – one skillet, quarter-hour
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Bolognese Orzo (Risoni)
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Taco Soup – don’t knock it till you’ve tried it, it’s superb!
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Beef and rice recipe
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Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion , diced (any type)
- 1 red capsicum / bell pepper , diced (large)
- 2 garlic cloves , minced
- 500g (1 lb) ground beef (mince) , lean
- 2 1/2 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp EACH cumin, black pepper
- 1 tsp each onion powder, dried oregano (or other herb of choice)
- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper (optional)
- 1 dried bay leaf
- 1 1/4 cups (225g) long grain white rice , uncooked (Note 1)
- 2 cups (500 ml) beef broth , low sodium
- 2 cups (300g) diced frozen veggies , I used corn, pea, carrot mix (Note 2)
- 3 big handfuls baby spinach (~ 90g/3 oz) , or other leafy greens (Note 3)
Instructions
- Heat oil in large pot over high heat. Add onion, capsicum and garlic. Cook for 1 minute.
- Add beef, cook until brown, breaking it up as you go.
- Add tomato paste, salt, pepper, onion powder, oregano, cumin and cayenne pepper. Cook for 1 minute.
- Turn heat down to medium. Add rice and beef broth, mix well. Add frozen veggies and bay leaf, then stir.
- Place lid on, lower heat to medium low so it’s simmering gently. Cook for 12 – 15 minutes (might even take longer) until all liquid is absorbed (tilt pot to check). The rice should be just cooked, but will be wet.
- Remove from heat. Quickly toss spinach on top of the rice and put the lid back on. Leave to rest for 10 minutes.
- Fluff rice and mix through wilted spinach with a fork. Adjust salt if desired. Serve!
Notes
1. RICE – Best made with white long grain rice for fluffiest outcome. Medium grain is the next best, then short grain or sushi rice (still great, just less pilaf-like). Basmati and jasmine will also work but will take about 5 minutes longer to cook. Not suited to brown rice (takes too long too cook), risotto or paella rice. Not yet tested with quinoa or other rice subs!
2. IMPORTANT: You can sub the frozen with more chopped fresh veggies. But if you opt to use fresh instead of frozen veggies, add 1/4 cup of water to the rice (frozen veg adds water as it melts).
3. LEAFY GREENS: This can be substituted with any leafy greens that wilts quite easily. It will even work with torn kale (remove from the stems) or leafy part of Asian greens. Roughly chop, then use per recipe. PS Asian greens don’t taste “Asiany”!
4. RICE FIRMNESS: This recipe makes al dente fluffy rice (ie tender and fluffy). If you like your rice softer, add 1/4 cup of water to the rice.
5. Nutrition per serving, assuming 5 servings.
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