Mamacita's Mexican Rice

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 cup long-grain white rice
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 onion, minced
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 1/2 cups chicken broth
• 1 tomato, seeded and diced
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon spanish saffron
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1/4 cup frozen peas and carrots, thawed
• 1 sprig fresh cilantro (optional)

Recipe

Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 25 mins Ready Time: 35 mins


• cook and stir rice and oil in a skillet over medium heat until lightly toasted, about 2 minutes. add onion and cook for 2 minutes. add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
• pour chicken broth into rice mixture and bring to a boil; stir tomato, cumin, saffron, salt, and black pepper into broth and bring to a boil. cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer until rice is cooked, about 20 minutes.
• stir peas and carrots into cooked rice; garnish with cilantro.