Quick and Easy Spanish Rice Recipe (Single Service)

Raise your hand if you like Spanish rice! Me too. Now raise your other hand if you want a quick, easy, single serving, and totally delicious Spanish rice recipe! Great, keep reading. 🙂

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Raise your hand if you love Spanish rice and would like to learn how to make it in less than 5 minutes and have the rice be perfectly cooked! I know it got my attention too—an easy Spanish rice recipe in under 5 minutes with perfectly cooked rice, texture, taste, and color! Thanks to our partnership with Minute® Ready to Serve, we have a quick and easy Spanish rice recipe that we think you’re going to love!

Rice has always been one of those hit-or-miss things with me. Unless, of course, I use my rice cooker, lol. This Spanish Rice recipe doesn’t require a rice cooker, and you can quickly make a single serving of Spanish Rice for lunch or even breakfast rice (we will share our breakfast rice recipe in the next post), which will be an awesome addition to your back-to-school breakfast menu.

If there is any time of year when things can get a little hectic, it’s the back-to-school season! Everyone is trying to get back in the swing of things—getting up early, breakfast, school, homework, snacks, dinner, early bedtimes, etc. Not only are my younger children heading off to school but college as well. 

Whether you are sending kids to school or off to or giving your soon-to-be new college student quick and easy meal ideas, I thought you would like this quick and easy idea Spanish right recipe using Minute® Ready to Serve Rice! 

Quick and Easy Spanish Rice Recipe

• 1 Container Minute® Ready to Serve Rice
• 1/2 green bell pepper (diced small)
• 1/2 tomato (diced small)
• 1/2 white onion (diced small)
• 1/4 tsp. cumin
• 1/4 teaspoon chili powder, 
• Salt and pepper to taste

Let’s create this super quick and easy Spanish rice recipe:

Before microwaving the rice bowls, mix in the veggies and the seasoning

Heat on high for 60 seconds.

Let cool before handling, stirring, and serving

The thing I love most about Minute® Ready to Serve Rice is that it offers portability and portion control yet it’s also perfect for those times when you make 7-layer burritos and don’t need to make too much rice. 

Check out the amazing 7-layer burritos we made using Minute® Ready to Serve Rice. 

Turning Minute® Ready to Serve Rice into Spanish Rice was SUPER easy, It’s something I would eat for lunch happily, but it’s also just enough for my family to add a little tasty Spanish Rice to their burrito!  Plus, it just tastes amazing!

We make the burrito with some leftover chicken we needed to eat, a can of refried beans and pinto beans, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and, of course, the easy Spanish Rice.

Minute® Ready to Service Rice is the perfect portable solution, especially when you’re looking for a quick and easy breakfast, lunch, snack, or just need a small amount of rice for something like 7-layer burritos!  All it takes is 60 seconds, and you’re rice is thoroughly cooked to perfection with nothing to add, unless, of course, you want to spice things up with a few of your favorite ingredients. 

Minute® Ready to Serve Rice comes conveniently packed in two individual single-serve cups!  With back-to-school season in full swing, it’s the perfect staple to help you eat any time of day.  You can currently get Minute® Ready to Serve Multi-Grain Medley is a blend of SIX 100% whole grains such as quinoa, oats, barley, brown rice, wheat, and rye, making it an excellent choice for breakfast too. 

Minute® Ready to Serve White Rice is a long-grain natural white rice the whole family will love, especially when you add a few of your favorite ingredients. 

Be sure to visit for more great recipes, stir-in recipe ideas, and more great information about Minute® Ready to Serve products.

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Minute® Ready to Serve Rice.

Quick and Easy Spanish Rice Recipe (Single Service)

Jenn

Looking for a tasty, yet quick rice recipe be sure and give this Quick and Easy Spanish Rice Recipe a try.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 20 minutes mins

Course Dinner Ideas, Healthy, Lunch

Servings 2

Ingredients

  

• 2 Container Minute® Ready to Serve Rice
• 1/4 green bell pepper diced small (more or less to your liking)
• 1/4 tomato diced small (more or less to your liking)
• 1/4 white onion diced small (more or less to your liking)
• 1/4 tsp cumin
• 1/4 tsp chili powder
• Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

 

• Before microwaving the rice bowls, mix in the veggies and the seasoning
• Heat on high for 60 seconds.
• Let cool before handling, stir and serve

Keyword burrito, rice, spanish rice