mom's spanish rice
This is my first serious attempt in recreating a very beloved recipe of my Mom's. She never wrote it down, and no one in the family seems to have watched closely enough when she made it! We are all convinced part of the deliciousness was her home canned tomatoes. She would use a quart or more of them when she made this. But was there something else? ???? I will say this recipe is more bland than Mom's, which is saying something since she was a true Minnasotan Scandihoovian! Salt & pepper were spicy for her, usually!!
prep time
cook time
method
Pan Fry
yield
4-8 people, hopefully!
Ingredients
- Half medium onion (i use yellow), diced
- 4 cloves garlic, fresh, chopped
- 1 red peppers, but mom preferred green, cut into chunks
- 1 pound bacon, fried.
- bacon grease, reserved from above
- 1 large can crushed tomatoes
- Part can v8 tomato juice
- 3 cups minute rice, uncooked
- salt & pepper to taste
- hot sauce to taste
How To Make mom's spanish rice
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Step 1Cook bacon using your preferred method. I cook in the oven; Mom fried it in the electric frying pan. Whatever way you choose, save the drippings. -
Step 2Chop the onion, garlic, & pepper to the size you like. I prefer small onion and large pepper.
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Step 3Using the bacon drippings in a large fry pan (or electric fry pan), fry the onion, garlic, & pepper till soft.
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Step 4Add the uncooked rice, the can of tomatoes & as much of the tomato juice as you want. Fill the tomato can with water and add to the concaction. Give it a good stir and turn it way down to simmer.
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Step 5Break up the cooked bacon and add to the rice. Cover and let it simmer till all the liquid is gone. Keep an eye on it so it doesn't burn!
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Step 6Test the rice, add more water or tomato juice, depending how it tastes to you. Salt, pepper, hot sauce can be added as well.
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Step 7If the rice is tender, go ahead & eat the Spanish Rice. Otherwise, give it more time.
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