{"id":1859,"date":"2010-01-22T10:02:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2010-01-22T10:02:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:02:58","slug":"mexican-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/mexican-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Picky Apple LOVES rice, but is rather particular about how it is prepared.\u00c2\u00a0 He especially loves the rice served at Mexican restaurants.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve tried several times to recreate rice like that at home, but with less than stellar results.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ve finally figured out how to do this at home!!\u00c2\u00a0 I served with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/homemade-tortillas\/\">Homemade Tortillas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/chicken-soft-taco-filling\/\">Chicken Soft Taco Filling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1947\" title=\"Mexican Rice\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mexican-Rice.jpg\" alt=\"Mexican Rice\" width=\"557\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mexican-Rice.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mexican-Rice-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Mexican Rice<\/h4>\n<p>recipe by Cara<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1-2 tablespoons butter<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup chopped onion<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon chopped garlic<\/li>\n<li>1 cup rice<\/li>\n<li>1 can Rotel<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 cups chicken broth<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon cumin<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Heat butter in skillet over medium high heat.\u00c2\u00a0 Add chopped onion and cook for 3-4 minutes, until onion is tender.\u00c2\u00a0 Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds.\u00c2\u00a0 Add rice to pan and cook for approximately 5 minutes, or until turning golden brown, stirring constantly.\u00c2\u00a0 Add Rotel, chicken broth, cumin, and salt.\u00c2\u00a0 Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce heat, simmering for 15 minutes or until rice is done.\u00c2\u00a0 You can add more chicken broth as it cooks, if needed, but we like ours on the dry side!<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/mexican-rice\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Picky Apple LOVES rice, but is rather particular about how it is prepared.\u00c2\u00a0 He especially loves the rice served at Mexican restaurants.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve tried several times to recreate rice like that at home, but with less than stellar results.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ve finally figured out how to do this at home!!\u00c2\u00a0 I served with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,48,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freezer-friendly","category-recipes","category-side-dish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}